Guys I have a 120 gig Western hard drive as my primary, I added a second hard drive 40 gig maxtor for downloads and what not, the Bios is seeing it as a slave but my windows 98 se is only seeing 120 gig drive, why is my 40 gig not showing up in windows?. INTEL 2.8 GHZ ASUS P4S800D-E M/B 512 DDR RAM 120 GIG WESTERN DIGITAL 40 GIG MAXTOR RANDEON 7500 64 MGG DDR LG 12 DVD BURNER LG 52X32X52 CD-RW
If you bought the 40G HDD new, it wont have a partiton on it, therefore wont show up as a drive in windows. What you need to do is add the partition and foramt the drive, so that is will be displayed in windows. WARNING: Do this at your own Risk. Make sure that you backup any important Data incase you make a mistake. You can do this by putting in the Windows 98 Start-up Floppy Disk. at the A:/> type FDISK there should be an option 5, chnage current Disk... in there it should show 2 drives 1 which should show ur 120G hdd and 2 which should show ur 40G Select Number 2, the 40G HDD Now go to Opinion 1, to Create a Partition, then Option 1 to Create a Primary Partition. Select Yes to the options that follow. Once that is done press ESC from the main menu and restart the comptuer, booting back to the Floppy Disk. Now at the A:/> type FORMAT D: /u This will then format the 40G to make it readable. It will say, are you sure you want to format, Yes. Take the floppy disk out, restart, and then it should be under My Comptuer as D: Regards CoZZa
The drive should still show up without partitioning. If it shows up in Device Manager than everything is good to go... if not then we can go from there
I meant that the drive will not be assigned a Drive Letter, therefore wont be displayed in My Comptuer Regards CoZZa
nosty10s is using Windows 98SE therfore cant take the advantages of NTFS, only FAT32 with Win98 Regards CoZZa
cozza1987 You hit it on the spot, thanks it now sees it in Windows, thanks for the other replies also
