Mc G

The primary hard drive is being recognized by Windows. The secondary IDE controller is showing you your CD-R/W drive, which is pretty normal. There is NO indication in what you posted above (15 Aug 03 - 07:17 PM)about the controller that Windows sees your second hard drive, and IT WILL NOT DO SO UNTIL YOU DO (or re-do) THE SOFTWARE INSTALLATION for the second hard drive.

There is a (remote) possibility that you could force Windows to find the second hard drive by going into Windows Explorer, selecting Tools, and "MAP NETWORK DRIVE." There is the option to have it "search" for unidentified drives; but even if it finds this drive IT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO READ FROM IT UNTIL YOU DO THE SOFTWARE INSTALLATION for that second hard drive.

Relax until you find the disk.

Re the "coming" obsolescence of Win98 mentioned by someone else above: it's already here. Microsoft has announced some months ago that Win98 is considered an "unsupported system." There will be no "new" fixes specific to Win98, although there will continue (for an unspecified time) to be a download site for existing ones, and applicable updates to other systems (that are generic enough to work with Win98) will/may be available there. It's still a good, and usable, operating system; but upgrading is something to be considered. Of the available Mickey$oft systems, WinXP is by far the preferred upgrade for most individual users (IMHO). I wouldn't bother with WinME, and Win2K is "too big" for most of us.

John