assuming drive is not dead,
in such cases, the most likely culprit is the cable. is very easy to get the cable in backwards in the board or in the drive. --fj
Ok. IU am building a computer, i have got the floppy drive working, i can boot off a floppy, i can even play a really bad dos game. But that is about all. I have a 4 gig HDD, I have plugged it in and set the jumpers (i set it master), but when i go into the dos prompt, i can't find C: drive. I know you have to set something up in the BIOS, but i can't work out what. Can anyone help me with this?

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