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nosty10s
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_ 		12. July 2004 @ 13:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Guys I have a 120 gig Western hard drive as my primary, I added a second hard drive 40 gig maxtor for downloads and what not, the Bios is seeing it as a slave but my windows 98 se is only seeing 120 gig drive, why is my 40 gig not showing up in windows?.



INTEL 2.8 GHZ
ASUS P4S800D-E M/B
512 DDR RAM
120 GIG WESTERN DIGITAL
40 GIG MAXTOR
RANDEON 7500 64 MGG DDR
LG 12 DVD BURNER
LG 52X32X52 CD-RW
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cozza1987
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_ 		12. July 2004 @ 20:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you bought the 40G HDD new, it wont have a partiton on it, therefore wont show up as a drive in windows.

What you need to do is add the partition and foramt the drive, so that is will be displayed in windows.

WARNING: Do this at your own Risk. Make sure that you backup any important Data incase you make a mistake.

You can do this by putting in the Windows 98 Start-up Floppy Disk.

at the A:/>
type FDISK

there should be an option 5, chnage current Disk...
in there it should show 2 drives
1 which should show ur 120G hdd
and 2 which should show ur 40G

Select Number 2, the 40G HDD

Now go to Opinion 1, to Create a Partition, then Option 1 to Create a Primary Partition. Select Yes to the options that follow. Once that is done press ESC from the main menu and restart the comptuer, booting back to the Floppy Disk.

Now at the A:/>
type FORMAT D: /u

This will then format the 40G to make it readable.

It will say, are you sure you want to format, Yes.

Take the floppy disk out, restart, and then it should be under My Comptuer as D:

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CoZZa
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_ 		12. July 2004 @ 22:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The drive should still show up without partitioning. If it shows up in Device Manager than everything is good to go... if not then we can go from there
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cozza1987
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_ 		12. July 2004 @ 22:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I meant that the drive will not be assigned a Drive Letter, therefore wont be displayed in My Comptuer

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_ 		12. July 2004 @ 23:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
nosty10s:
DOnt forget to take advantage of the benifits of NTFS and convert! :)
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cozza1987
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_ 		13. July 2004 @ 00:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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but my windows 98 se is only seeing 120 gig drive
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nosty10s:
DOnt forget to take advantage of the benifits of NTFS and convert! :)
nosty10s is using Windows 98SE therfore cant take the advantages of NTFS, only FAT32 with Win98 :-)

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_ 		13. July 2004 @ 05:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well in my sleep deprived world, anything is possible....
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nosty10s
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cozza1987

You hit it on the spot, thanks it now sees it in Windows, thanks for the other replies also
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cozza1987
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_ 		13. July 2004 @ 07:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No problems, glad it helped

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