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| Thread ID: 65737 | 2006-01-29 00:17:00 | Missing drve letter for replacement slave drive | ronr (1234) | Press F1 |
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| 425023 | 2006-01-29 00:17:00 | Hi I have a Windows 98SE OS with two hard drives. My mother board is a ASRock manufacture. I am replacing the slave drive with a new Maxtor 80g IDE/ATA 133 drive. My motherboard hand book states that it supports this. I installed the new drive. When booting up the bios recognises the new drive. My new drive does not show up in "My Computor". Device manager lists the extra hard drive but has no letter assigned to it. When I have tried "Add new hardware" no new hard drive is located Can anyone please help me? My goal is to copy everything across from my existing master to new slave drive which will then be swapped over to become my new master drive Ron |
ronr (1234) | ||
| 425024 | 2006-01-29 00:28:00 | Use a Win98SE boot disk and partition and format the drive from that. Make sure that the latest fdisk program for large disk support is installed on the boot disk. Edit: you can get the right fdisk.exe from here: support.microsoft.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 425025 | 2006-01-29 05:40:00 | Actually it could be even simpler than using the boot floppy. Have you tried using the built-in drive manager to partition and fomat the new hard drive? |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 425026 | 2006-01-29 05:58:00 | Actually it could be even simpler than using the boot floppy . Have you tried using the built-in drive manager to partition and fomat the new hard drive? In Win98? There isn't one as far as I know :confused: If there is it's called DOS :thumbs: |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 425027 | 2006-01-29 07:40:00 | You can run FDISK from within Win98... | pctek (84) | ||
| 425028 | 2006-01-29 09:02:00 | You can run FDISK from within Win98... Yes, but..... the drive isn't seen in windows, that's why booting into dos should be tried, neither can that be called a drive manager. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 425029 | 2006-01-29 21:13:00 | Yes, but..... the drive isn't seen in windows, that's why booting into dos should be tried, neither can that be called a drive manager. Rubbish, Porritt, the unpartitioned drive should be seen by fdisk in a dos window from within Win98 as pctek says :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 425030 | 2006-01-29 22:10:00 | My goal is to copy everything across from my existing master to new slave drive which will then be swapped over to become my new master driveYou will need a drive imaging program, or replace your exisxting HD with the new one and install a fresh version of WIN98, then plug your old drive in as slave. Also check you have jumpered the drives correctly. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 425031 | 2006-01-29 22:47:00 | Maxtor provide all the tools you need to setup and copy across your existing data to the new drive for free. MaxBlast 4 for Windows (www.maxtor.com) Quote: MaxBlast 4 is a one-step, ATA/IDE hard drive installation utility. MaxBlast 4 makes hard drive installations and upgrades hassle-free for novices and professionals alike by automatically identifying, partitioning, and formatting any IDE hard drive, making it data-ready in about one minute. This version of MaxBlast is used on systems with already existing Windows installations to copy all your data to the new hard drive in order to use it as a boot drive, or additional storage drive. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 425032 | 2006-01-30 01:05:00 | I must admit my Windows 98 support is getting rusty; I no longer have access to it, since most businesses have moved on. I know Windows 98 got a "stay of execution" late 2003 till June of 2006. support.microsoft.com You can call it "enforced obsolescence" if you want. |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
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