[Ham-Computers] HD Problems.

[KD7JYK]

I just installed a seond hard disk on my computer, 40GB.

OS is Windows 98SE.

I turn on the computer and the startup BIOS information shows it as:

Primary Slave Disk 40016 MB UDMA2

Windows sees nothing.

I have Windows check for new hardware.  It finds a 2400 baud generic modem,
which is actually a USRobitic 56K, but nothing else.

I play with hardware profiles and I see the second drive listed as a Generic
IDE Disk Type 47, but no other specs.  The only option selectable is
"Removable".  I select it and Windows now sees the disk, but tells me it is
not formatted.  It tells me I have to format it before I can use it which
makes sense.  I format it, but my only choice for size is 8063.5 MB, far
less than 40,016 MB.  I figure I can fix this later so I let the computer do
what it wants to at least see the disk.  It formats the 40GB drive and now
tells me it is 7.85GB, even less than when I started...

I check the BIOS at startup to see if there are some settings that need to
be changed.

BIOS says I have a 40016MB disk, but shows CHS Capacity as 8422MB and
Maximum LBA Capacity as 40016MB.  What are these capacities?

How can I get Windows 98SE to see what I really have and operate it as such,
drive D:\, a second hard-drive, not removable media???

Thanks,

Kurt