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04-05-2003, 09:49 PM
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Windows 98 wont recnogize second hard drive
My computer boots, and the BIOS picks up the second drive fine. But windows 98 SE dosent recnogize it. I ran Add New Hardware with no success. Windows 98 SE can recnogize a 40 gig HDD, yeah?
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04-05-2003, 10:26 PM
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Did you partition and format the hard drive after installing it?
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04-05-2003, 10:36 PM
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Partitioning hard drive
http://www.pcmech.com/show/harddrive/137/ Formatting http://www.pcmech.com/show/harddrive/58/ |
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04-06-2003, 09:37 AM
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04-06-2003, 09:52 AM
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Did you make sure you have one of the hard drives set-up as master and the secondary HDD as slave?
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04-06-2003, 03:42 PM
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Once you get it formatted and partitioned correctly . And cabled correctly windows will recognize it and assign the drive letter for you
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04-06-2003, 06:32 PM
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OK, so Ive partioned and formatted the new drive, but when I go to do the reccommended scan disk I get errors with file user.exe
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04-06-2003, 07:29 PM
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Sounds like you have the drive working now in Windows,, YES???? If U can copy files to it and open files from it, I wouldn't worry about scanning it right now since it is a new drive. are U trying the built in scandisk thats in Win98??? If so how are U running it, and if not exactly what program R U trying to use to scan that new disk..
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04-06-2003, 07:36 PM
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I start with My Computer, right click drive D (the new one), select properties, tools tab, scan disk. I tried through and it bombed, tried standard an got the same result. |
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04-06-2003, 07:40 PM
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You could scan it from win98 boot floppy, but just curious, can U scan your main drive that windows is on??
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04-06-2003, 07:43 PM
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Nope....
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04-06-2003, 08:02 PM
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OK, so its not a problem with that new drive, something is corrupt in Win98...
Go into ControlPanel>AddRemovePrograms>WindowsComponents>then I think system tools, and in there U may be able to fix that, or just run win98 install again.. 
Last edited by ktkendall; 04-06-2003 at 08:04 PM. |
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04-06-2003, 08:11 PM
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thanks!
I'll try it out, see how everything goes |
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