Maxtor 40GB no longer showing up in windows only in BIOS.

[boyer11]

Using 98SE. I Have a 40GB Maxtor D740x-6L as slave and a 1.5 Gb as master. 40GB worked fine until I fdisked (FAT32)and formatted the 1.5 again. Now the 40 does not show up in Windows but still shows up in BIOS. Jumpers and cables are fine and I suspect it is not a problem with the motherboard because I tried putting in a 2GB PRIOR to this as a new master and same thing happened. The 40GB would not show up in windows. Then when I put the 1.5 back in it showed up in Windows. Its only now that I formatted the 1.5 that theres a problem. Dont want to use Maxblast because I dont want to lose information on the drive because of fdisk and formatting. NEED HELP BADLY! ANYONE!

 

[cdogg]

Just curious...

If you right-click My Computer on your desktop, click properties and go to the Performance tab, does it say any drives are using MS-DOS Compatibility Mode?


~cdogg
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[boyer11]

No it doesn't say that. It says "Your system is configured for optimum performance."

 

[TBH1]

Boyer11 - - -how you getting on with this mate. It is almost exactly the problem i am having - since fdisking and reinstalling w98se over the weekend, I am unable to locate my 40gb Hitachi slave drive.It shows up in BIOS, and is accessible in fdisk.

 

[wolluf]

boyer11,

Was the partition on the 40GB drive an extended one or primary? If extended, I suspect that repartitioning the primary on the small disk has caused the extended to go missing. You should be able to retrieve the data using a data recovery app (free one here should work on fat32 -

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm)

- but you'll need somewhere to recover it to.