Drive letter problem

[Karnevil9]

I have an older Pentium II 350mhz Dell computer that has a 6gb hard drive with windows98/SE installed on it. I recently put a 60gb western digital hard drive in the computer with windows/2K installed on that. I left the 6gb hard drive for an 11 year old who is in the habit of downloading completely everything he has or finds. The Problem albeit a minor one, is that the windows 98 hard drive does not seem to see the other hard drive. The Drive letters on the windows 98 side are

c: hdd

d: DVD rom

e: CD-Rom R/W

On the windows 2k side it is

c: hdd

d: windows98

e: DVD rom

f: CD-rom R/W


Is there way to get the older hard drive to see the newer?
Is it an O/S problem? The 98 is FAT 32 and the 2K is formatted as NTSF.

I will be pulling this computer apart before the end of summer and using the newer parts to rebuild one with a new mobo, cpu and memory. If it's a computer problem it is not a big deal since the computer will not be around long.

Also, does it hurt anything to keep that old drive on the computer along with the new one, or should I just dump it? As I said, it was left to give a yungster his own drive to load as he sees fit.

[lil Jimmie]

Here is the problem - 98 uses FAT32 and cannot read NTFS, but NTFS can read FAT32 and Windows 2000 using FAT32 can read NTFS so it's a bit of an OS problem.

If you want them to see each other you will need to format the Windows 2000 hdd with FAT32, but I would leave it the way it is so that the youngster cannot interfer with the data on the NTFS drive.