McG

When your second hard drive was installed, a small "management" program was probably installed on the first drive. While it is theoretically "possible" for Windows to do a default setup to read a "new" drive, it almost never works satisfactorily, so the drive manufacturers provide their own "mapping" utilities.

The "management" program for the drive would probably have been installed in Windows/System folder, and when you reinstalled Windows, the program was not replaced. Also, any registry entry to tell Windows to read the "new" drive would be missing.

You must, now, REINSTALL THE NEW HARD DRAVE MANAGER. If you had someone install the drive for you, they should have given you a floppy disk with the drive manager on it. If they didn't, you can ask them for it, or - for most drive manufacturers - you should be able to download it from the manufacturer's site.

Windows 98 can "autoinstall" a hard drive that it recognizes on boot, and has default drive managers, but only for drives smaller than 20 or 30 MB. If you installed any of the commonly available "larger" drives, the new one is 30 to 120 GB. (NOT MB). Any drive larger than about 30 MB requires a drive-specific "mapper" to tell Windows how to read it.

Reinstalling Windows would not make changes to the BIOS settings, so you are "seeing the drive" during boot because the original manager installation made the appropriate BIOS changes for you. That has nothing to do with Windows. Windows simply doesn't know how to read the drive, because the required software was removed by the Windows reinstall.

The BIOS settings that are being reported indicate an "unusual" configuration, but that's between you and whoever installed it for you. There may have been a reason for the way it is, probably due to other installed hardware; but best hard drive performance is normally obtained if both drives are on the same ribbon from the EIDE controller, in which case one of them must be set (jumpered) as a "slave" or "secondary" drive. If you already had something like a CD drive/burner on the second ribbon connector with the original hard drive, some installers will "punt" the installation and put a new hard drive wherever there's a connector...

Re-do the SOFTWARE part of the installation for the "new" drive. It's not a Windows problem.

(probably)

John