New Hard Drive

ZephroDyne · #1 January 7th, 2003, 01:41 PM

Ok, it goes like this. Recently I decided to install a 'new' hard drive (450MB) to my ancient 133Mhz Pentium PC.

I set it to Secondary Master.

Primary Master is 1.2GB HD and Primary Slave is 120MB, both of them old hard drives. At the startup, the BIOS (or something like that) could detect the three hard drives, but under Windows Explorer, only the first two drives, C: and D: were displayed (the 1.2GB and 120MB).

My question is this: How do I make the third HD appear under Windows Explorer? Any help is much appreciated.

Alfons · #2 January 7th, 2003, 05:39 PM

Is the third drive partitioned and formatted? If BIOS can see it "electronically", then the file structure is incompatible with Windows and the disk only needs to be prepared. You can do this by using FDISK and FORMAT commands. If you're not familiar with this process, then Post.

enat66 · #3 January 7th, 2003, 10:55 PM

Tutorial on FDISK here:
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/tu...rial.php/id/37

ZephroDyne · #4 January 8th, 2003, 01:17 PM

Ok, I partitioned it, and formatted it under Windows. But now its under a 'MS-DOS compatibility mode file system'.

I can't put long filenames in the drive. Is there any way to remove this and make it work normally like my other drives?

Alfons · #5 January 9th, 2003, 02:05 PM

Go HERE and see if this solution helps. Be sure you back up your current Registry before making changes.