Hi, I had a small master hd (7 gigs) on which winMe was loaded, and a larger slave (60 gigs) on which my docs were. after getting the "windows protection error" i decided to reload windows. with a winMe setup disk, i reformatted the master drive and reinstalled winME on it. unfortunately now the slave is not being recognized by windows. it simply doesn't show up ..(i'm not sure if DOS does either). in device manager, "GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE 47" is flagged under disk drives, and there is a question mark for "PRIMARY IDE CONTROLLER (DUAL FIFO)" under hard disk controllers. both the master and slave are recognized in bios, and show up. do i need a driver or something? please help! thanks

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Ever since AGP was added to PCs, there have been sets of drivers for the motherboards' onboard devices. You skipped using the MB CD during your reinstall of WinME.

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Kiwi

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On Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 8:36 pm, chin wrote:
>Hi, I had a small master hd (7 gigs) on which winMe was loaded

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hmm, i see. only i don't think i had a motherboard cd with my setup package..   i also tried taking out the drive, putting it into a usb enclosure, and connecting it to a different computer externally. it is not being recognized now by any computer. the pc sees it as a generic usb device, but not as a HD. thanks again

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Windows didn't install a driver for the IDE controller on the motherboard or it's 
having a problem of some type.  It is probably running in a generic PIO mode, instead 
of the faster DMA mode.  If you don't have a CD or floppy with the motherboard drivers 
on them, you can try the manufacturers website for the motherboard, or the manufacturer 
of the machine.  If you know the chipset provider on the motherboard, you can sometimes 
find drivers on their site also.  Until that is updated/corrected, you may not be 
able to see all of the drives and/or it will be as slow as molasses (lots of HDD 
activity for a simple task etc)..







On Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 8:36 pm, chin wrote:

>Hi, I had a small master hd (7 gigs) on which winMe was loaded, and a larger slave 

>(60 gigs) on which my docs were.  after getting the "windows protection error" i 

>decided to reload windows.  with a winMe setup disk, i reformatted the master drive 

>and reinstalled winME on it.  unfortunately now the slave is not being recognized 

>by windows.  it simply doesn't show up ..(i'm not sure if DOS does either).  in 
device 

>manager, "GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE 47" is flagged under disk drives, and there is a 

>question mark for "PRIMARY IDE CONTROLLER (DUAL FIFO)" under hard disk controllers.

>

>both the master and slave are recognized in bios, and show up.  do i need a driver 

>or something?  please help!  thanks 

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