Win98SE does not see slave drive

[hedgie]

All,
I am troubleshooting a friend's HDD and connected it to a Gateway GP7-450 box running Win98SE. (TShooting box) - I have attached it to the secondary IDE channel as a slave. When I boot the Gateway pc the bios recognizes the drive, but the OS does not. Would this have anything to do w/the slave drive having WinXP installed on a NTFS partition? Any replies are appreciated.

-hedgie

 

[wolluf]

Yes!

98 can't read ntfs filestore.

If you haven't an NT/2k/XP machine to slave drive to, you could install

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfswin98.shtml

on your 98 installation (it does need a few files from an NT/2k/xp installation to work - specified on the site - can also get them off an NT/2k/xp install CD if necessary)

 

[TekTippy4U]

Also;
have you correctly jumpered the XP drive? btw, some xp setups use FAT32....it all depends on which file system was chosen at setup time....more than likely though it's an ntfs part prob.

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[wolluf]

Tektippy - hedgie did say XP is installed on an NTFS partition and that the drive is recognised in the bios.....

 

[TekTippy4U]

hi wolluf;
i read it as a question -
i.e. (i'm rewording and paraphrasing just to explain how it looks to me)
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'could it be that the OS doesn't see the drive bacause "possibly" XP may be on an NTFS partition?. (could that be the case?)
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as you know, this is entirely possible and most likely true, -- however it is NOT the only reason an OS won't see a drive when the BIOS can/does.

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[Molee]

I am having the same trouble with a Samsung SV6004H.

 

[wolluf]

Molee - what do you mean - you can't read the ntfs filestore on it from a win98 installation? (see my earlier post in that case). Otherwise, please explain more fully - would be better in a new thread.

 

[hedgie]

thanks for the replies guys...I connected the drive to another xp box (NTFS filestore), and slave was recognized by both the bios and OS. I yanked the mission critical data, and reloaded xp pro..Issue resolved. It seems I was having issues keeping the differences between fat32 and Ntfs straight. NTFS can see Fat32, but fat32 cannot see NTFS. Thanks again for the help.

-hedgie

 

[TekTippy4U]

Very true hedgie.....except for NT 4.0 (which only sees Fat16)....maybe w SP6 it can - haven't followed up on it

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[wolluf]

hedgie - just a clarification. Its operating systems that 'see' filestore (or not). Ntfs & fat32 can't see or not see each other.

95 OSR1 - sees only fat16
95 OSR2, 98, ME - see fat16 and fat32
NT - sees fat16 and ntfs
2k/XP - see fat16, fat32 and ntfs

You can also install software to enable access to filestore operating system can't see normally (eg,

http://www.sysinternals.com

have software to enable NT to see FAT32 and to enable win9x/ME to see ntfs).