Win98SE will not see slave drive

[hedgie]

All,
I am troubleshooting a friend's HDD, and installed it on a Gateway GP7-450 as a slave drive. I attached it to the secondary IDE channel and jumpered it to a slave drive. When I boot the Gateway the bios recognizes the drive, but the OS does not. The drive is an 80 gig drive, and has xp installed on a NTFS partition. Any ideas are appreciated.


-hedgie

[GretaP]

Hi hedgie,

has xp installed on a NTFS partition That's why the OS is unable to recognize the drive.......for lack of better terminology, FAT32 cannot "see" NTFS partitions (NTFS partitions can "see" and access FAT32 partitions).

Perhaps you could start a new topic in the XP forum stating what the trouble is with your friend's HDD and we'll try to assist you in troubleshooting the problem.

[degsy]

more precise would be that Win98 cannot see NTFS.

[hedgie]

GretaP,

Thanks for the reply, this is what I assumed and was just not sure. Looks like I am going to have to attach the drive to a system w/an NTFS partition configured in order to access the data. Always have a hard time keeping the rules of fat32 and NTFS straight. It was just strange not being able to see the drive letter in My Computer. Thanks again for the help.

-Hedgie

[GretaP]

You're welcome for the help, and good luck troubleshooting your friend's HDD! :D

[degsy]

Looks like I am going to have to attach the drive to a system w/an NTFS partition configured in order to access the data
Not neccessarily.
Any XP system will be able to see both FAT32 and NTFS.
So you could easily add the NTFS drive to an XP FAT32 system.