Win98SE cannot access last logical drive

[Dirgio]

I partitioned a Maxtor 60GB 7200 ATA133 drive into 5 sections C(2GB), D(12GB), E(12GB), F(12GB), G(22GB). Partitions are readable and usable in DOS. Installed Win98SE and it detects all logical drives and am able to read/write to C-F; however am unable to access drive G. A msgbox displays “ Unable to access. A device attached to this drive…..” The drive is on a cable by itself attached to the primary IDE of a Gigabyte GA-7DXR+. The Performance tab also indicates that drive G is using ms-dos compatability mode. I don’t know if this is a Win98SE problem or a setting with the motherboard since the error message does relate to a device attached to G:. Thanx in advance for your thoughts.

 

[fedto]

You mentioned that G is attatched to the primary ide on the mobo, is it set to master or slave by the jumper and which part of the cable is it on, master or slave? If it is the only device on the cable, it will need to be either master or set to cable select.
You went into great detail on the mobo and the primary hard drive, but failed to mention what G is. I am assuming a hard drive.
Also, if G is attached to the primary IDE, why is not your C-F attached to the Primary IDE?

If it were me, I would put the Maxtor, C-F, as the master on the primary IDE off the mobo and put the G device on the secondary IDE as master and see if this makes any difference.

 

[Klick]

When I used NetWare 4.1 it puts a LASTDRIVE=F parameter somewhere that prevents a "G" drive in Windows. Are you using a NetWare Client?

 

[Dirgio]

The HDD is set to Master and at the end of the cable. Drive G is the last logical drive of the extended partition(ie. drives c-g are on one HDD).

 

[grygst76]

question, did you format g: drive? does your bios accept the full capacity of that drive put the statement LASTDRIVE=H i think in config.sys right before the cd drive line if you have one

 

[aspectz]

Can you confirm that fdisk sees the entire 22GB of G: and that also drive G: is a logical drive in the same extended partition as D: to F:?

Make sure no CD install lines in the config.sys file have a switch /L:G entry. It should be over-ruled by fdisk, if it's there. What drive letter(s) does your CD drive have?

Maybe you have tweakui installed and set to not show drive G: ?

Could you try repartitioning, and make D: to F: bigger at the expense of G: Or alternatively delete the G: partition, reboot, and recreate it.

Things to try, I hope it helps.