HDD not seen in WinXP/Win98

[srinathtk]

Dear Friends,

I have the following config:
Celeron 433, 128MB RAM with Intel 810e motherboard,40 GB Seagate HDD with CD ROM drive.
The 40 GB has been partitioned to c, d ,e and f. Win 98 SE is installed on C drive and WinXP on e drive with dual boot. This is the primary master.

Now I got another HDD with 40GB Seagate. I connected it making this as the primary slave. (Jumper settings made accordingly).
With this setup, the 2nd HDD was not being seen in Win XP as well as Win 98. As per the suggestions of my compay hardware engineer, I have made the 2nd HDD jumper setting to "cable select". Now both the HDDs are being recognised while booting the system in the BIOS. But later when windows explorer is opened , the 2nd HDD is not seen.

I tried connecting only the 2nd HDD (after making necessary changes in jumper to make it Primary master) and booted from Win98 Cd. Later after seleting 'boot Systems with CD rom support'. I opened DOS prompt and tried accessing C drive. But I am getting an error of invalid drive specification.

Can anyone help in solving this prolbem?

Regards,,

Srinath
India

[bailey]

I think that both hard drives need to be jumpered for cabel select, then both should work fine.

[srinathtk]

I would try and comback to you tomorrow.

Thanks for the help.
Regards,

srinath

[Cricket]

Has the new hard drive been partitioned and formatted yet? Since you've got both Win98 and WinXP on there, you gotta format it to FAT32.

Cricket

[srinathtk]

Probably the new HDD is not formatted . I'll chek it soon and get back to you at the earliest. I was also suggested to create the partions usign 'Fdisk' in dos by connecting only the new HDD and booting from the Win98 CD.

I 'll be back soon.

Regards,

Srinath

[Cricket]

In case you need it: FDISK & FORMAT

Cricket

[srinathtk]

Dear Cricket,

That was a great piece of tutorial. Thanks for all your guidance and help. Get back to you once I try this out in my residence system.

Keep it up!!!!!!!

Regards,

Srinath
India

[Cricket]

Actually, you can partition and format the new hard drive from WinXP using Disk Management too. Might be easier than running FDISK and FORMAT from a floppy disk. Just make sure the new hard drive is formatted in FAT32 so Win98SE can "see" it.

Cricket

[srinathtk]

Thank you cricket,

Before I get your guidance I used 'FDISK' to partition and format the HDD connecting it as primary master in another system(as Fdisk was not responding in my system). Then the same is connected to my system as Primary slave, I was able to see the HDD.

Thank you very much for the guidance and help given by you.

Keep going.

Regards,,

Srinath
India

[stoner]

drive letters usually get shifed upward when you format so this could make c become d, d become e etc.try format d instaed of c.