Can't do long filenames

[zoiker]

I am installing another hard drive into an old computer. I succesfully installed the hard drive as a slave to the original, set up the partition, and formated the drive. However, the new drive does not accept long file names. It only accepts 8 letter filenames. How can I get the slave drive to accept long file names like the master does?

[Jim Smith]

I am installing another hard drive into an old computer. I succesfully installed the hard drive as a slave to the original, set up the partition, and formated the drive. However, the new drive does not accept long file names. It only accepts 8 letter filenames. How can I get the slave drive to accept long file names like the master does?

I do not understand this. W95 supports long file names and both drives are running under W95 and persumably FAT.

You might try some www.google.com searches on long and short file names and find something worthwhile.

[zoiker]

Yeah, I don't understand it either. It should work. Thanks anyway.

I do not understand this. W95 supports long file names and both drives are running under W95 and persumably FAT.

You might try some www.google.com searches on long and short file names and find something worthwhile.

[jdc2000]

What happens when you try to use a long filename on the drive? Do you get an error message? Does it display only the 8.3 filename? Example:

longfilename.txt displays as longfi~1.txt

Have you verified that the drive is formatted under Windows? What happens when you connect the drife to a different PC?

[VONetwork]

Hi
Your system must be using "MS-DOS compatible mode" to access the given Hard drive.
You can verify this in your Device manger - get properties for the drive and IDE cotroller.
This can happen for one of the following reasons
1. Correct driver for the IDE controller is not installed - this sometimes happen when you try to install Win 95 on newer chipsets which Win95 had no support at the the time Win95 was released
2. Faulty IDE controller
3. Faulty Hard disk controller on your Hard disk

I have witnesed all the tree possiblities for this problem

P.S. One more possiblity is your PC is loading a CDROM device driver(DOS) for the Slave postion where your HDD has now occupied.

Rgds
Nirosh