[bedolido]

It's Win98, but the drive works for other functions, just not for this recovery. I've just realized that perhaps since the D: is the master and E: is the slave, that for the recovery it may want to use the master...? Unfortunately, the D: makes the machine crash. Perhaps I should uninstall the new drive and set the original CD back to master and try again?

Go into the BIOS and switch the Master to the Slave and visa-versa.

[bedolido]

Go into the BIOS and switch the Master to the Slave and visa-versa.

forgot to add... I had a similar problem with XP. I have a CDRom and RW drive. I cannot copy from the rom to the RW.

I'd really like to try a MAC

[jra]

10-4.

Now how do I do that?

What about the jumpers? Do they have to be changed back, too?

[Positive]

"Go into the BIOS and switch the Master to the Slave and visa-versa."

I thought to change the master to slave and vice versa would require two steps.

1. Switch the drives' positions on the cable from the Motherboard (or Drive Control Card in an older machine).

2. Change the jumpers on the back of the drives so that each knows whether it is the Slave or the Master.

P.S. I the case of multiple CD Drives, I believe that they should be designated as Secondary (this is a second cable from the motherboard), whereas the Hard Drives would be the Primary Master and Slave if you have two of those.