detecting HDD in 98se

[Scee]

I put an old deathstar HD in an 98se machine as a slave. At first only one of the three partitions on the IBM was visible (only about a third of the drive). I deleted the partition in windows, hoping to refomat the whole thing at once, but now windows isn't detecting the drive at all. Unplugged drive, restarted, but no dice.

Suggestions?
Is there some software that would have a clue the drive is there.
Thanks.

 

[Fern]

Is the drive showing up in BIOS?

Either try fdisk or get some utilities from the HDD manufacturer (either IBM or maker of your other HDD). I'm talking about those on a bootable floppy (or cd). I use the Maxtor Maxblast, for example, to reformat or zero-fill etc. Might wanna run a "fitness" proggie first to make sure the HDD is good.

Any way the other partitions weren't Fat32. 98se won't read NTSF.

Fern