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[Gorgie]

Okay, the computer I'm using is old. It originally came with a 10 GB hdd. A few years later, a 40 GB hdd was purchased and became the primary drive. The old drive became the secondary drive. Now, I can hear the hdd lock up while using the computer. It is causing my computer to freeze up at inoppertune times, and starting up, takes many retries just for windows to read the hdd's are connected. The old 10 GB is >5 years old, and I'm pretty sure, it alone is causing of of my troubles.

I don't even need the 10 GB hdd, I have nothing saved on it. I just want to let windows know there will only be one hdd from now on.

By the way, I'm still using Windows 98 SE.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Take the drive out of your machine.

 

[Ruzbeh]

Just don't let your greesy, nooby little fingers near the PCB at the bottom of the drive.

 

[ChrisReid]

Okay, the computer I'm using is old. It originally came with a 10 GB hdd. A few years later, a 40 GB hdd was purchased and became the primary drive. The old drive became the secondary drive. Now, I can hear the hdd lock up while using the computer. It is causing my computer to freeze up at inoppertune times, and starting up, takes many retries just for windows to read the hdd's are connected. The old 10 GB is >5 years old, and I'm pretty sure, it alone is causing of of my troubles.

I don't even need the 10 GB hdd, I have nothing saved on it. I just want to let windows know there will only be one hdd from now on.

By the way, I'm still using Windows 98 SE.

It doesn't seem like the second drive is causing the computer to freeze on boot. If it has an error, Windows will just ignore it and move on, unless you have your swap file or something over there, which is pretty unlikely. You don't disable hard drives in windows. Just hop into your BIOS (hit delete/F8/whatever before Windows loads) and clear the entry/tell it to stop autodetecting your Primary Slave IDE device.

 

[Brannon]

Be sure to throw your old HD into a vat of acid; otherwise who knows what one may find on such a thing