Hard Disk Woes....

jxer00 · 12-18-2005, 11:05 AM

Hey all!

Hope you can help! Win98 cant see my second hard drive......I recently fried my computer and had to rebuild another one. So I built a pc and put a hard drive in and installed win98 (im broke, cant pay for xp again right now). All my old files etc are on the second hard drive though. I can see the hard drive inside of BIOS. But when I view my computer in windows, all I see is the main drive....what is up with this? The os drive is set as master. The second drive is set as slave. The second drive does have xp installed...is this a problem? I dont understand why BIOS sees my second drive but windows doesnt......Help !!! Any advice appreciated.

[-0MEGA-] · 12-18-2005, 01:55 PM

Correct me if im wrong, but i think that Win98 can only see FAT drives, and most likely the one with Win XP was NTFS, that may be why. But im not positive.

StrangleHold · 12-18-2005, 04:55 PM

True, Windows 98 cant see a XP install or any NTSF, if on another drive or a partition!

jxer00 · 12-18-2005, 08:07 PM

Ah....that makes sense. Thank you all. I am wondering, if I upgrade to win2k will I be able to set this right? Thanks again!

jxer00 · 12-19-2005, 08:46 PM

Well, I got Win Xp working instead so I guess thanks anyway...just for others though....would win2k have solved this? I did a google search and it seemed that win2k could read some of this format but...?

Dngrsone · 12-19-2005, 08:49 PM

Yes, Win2K reads/writes NTFS.

jxer00 · 12-19-2005, 08:58 PM

Cool ty!

12-18-2005, 11:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
jxer00 New Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 11	Hard Disk Woes.... Hey all! Hope you can help! Win98 cant see my second hard drive......I recently fried my computer and had to rebuild another one. So I built a pc and put a hard drive in and installed win98 (im broke, cant pay for xp again right now). All my old files etc are on the second hard drive though. I can see the hard drive inside of BIOS. But when I view my computer in windows, all I see is the main drive....what is up with this? The os drive is set as master. The second drive is set as slave. The second drive does have xp installed...is this a problem? I dont understand why BIOS sees my second drive but windows doesnt......Help !!! Any advice appreciated.

12-18-2005, 01:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
[-0MEGA-] VIP Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Concord, NH Age: 20 Posts: 27,389	Correct me if im wrong, but i think that Win98 can only see FAT drives, and most likely the one with Win XP was NTFS, that may be why. But im not positive. __________________ Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.1GHz Asus Rampage Formula X48 ATI 4870X2 2GB GDDR5 (800/1900) 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 960 (6-6-6-18) 750GB SATAII w/32MB Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty SilverStone 750W +12V@60A 3DMark06: 22605

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StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: And you think your safe! Posts: 7,983	True, Windows 98 cant see a XP install or any NTSF, if on another drive or a partition! __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600 3.3ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066 944mhz. 4gb. PNY 8800GT/VD964 W/D RE2 Sata 3.0 500gb. There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

12-19-2005, 08:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
jxer00 New Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 11	xp is working Well, I got Win Xp working instead so I guess thanks anyway...just for others though....would win2k have solved this? I did a google search and it seemed that win2k could read some of this format but...?

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12-18-2005, 08:07 PM	#4 (permalink)
jxer00 New Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 11	Ah....that makes sense. Thank you all. I am wondering, if I upgrade to win2k will I be able to set this right? Thanks again!

12-19-2005, 08:49 PM	#6 (permalink)
Dngrsone VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Centrally located far from everywhere Posts: 544	Yes, Win2K reads/writes NTFS.

12-19-2005, 08:58 PM	#7 (permalink)
jxer00 New Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 11	Cool ty!