installing 2nd Hard disk

[bhakasur]

I have a IBM 40gb 60GXP . And just got a Western Digital 80 gb 800bb.
I first tried to set 80Gb as a primary slave. It didnt show up in WinXp,
though it shows up on boot up , and also in the bios.
SO i configured cable select on both drives, still the same problem.
I cannot see the 2nd HDD in Win XP, what am i missing
Please help anyone
thanks in advance

 

[Jeff7]

You probably need to Partition and Format the drive first. Use Fdisk to make it a FAT32 partition; WinXP might have something to format it using NTFS.

 

[altonb1]

Definitely sounds like a partition problem. You should be able to run fdisk in a window w/o any problems, but I'm not sure what your disk options are in XP. In the 9x world, you would definitely use Fdisk. In NT, you use Disk Administrator. in 2k, i think you still use Disk Administrator. In XP...?!? Check in your control panel and you should find a disk utility, but if you do not, try running fdisk and see if a window opens. if so, you can create a partition that way. worst case scenario, find a Win 98 startup disk and boot to it. Once you get to a command prompt, you can run fdisk from there. I know fdisk is available when you boot with it. Good luck!

 

[bruincal]

i think this is the 5th time i've seen this kind of problem this month.... in winxp, drives do not automatically show up (for security reasons)... you need to login to an administrator account, and use Disk Management to make your drive partitions "active" so that they will show up...

go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, choose Disk Management on the panel, right click your new disk on the right and select Make Partition Active...


someone needs to make this note permanent in the troubleshooting checklist ....

 

[DaiShan]

I was just thinking that myself thanks for the addition!

 

[bhakasur]

I managed to activate it, format it. But it only gives NTFS as the option. There was no FAT32
Any clues as to format it in FAT32?
Using Win98 startup disk , it didnt recognise the 80 Gb, only 10Gb was visible

 

[Mitzi]

I managed to activate it, format it. But it only gives NTFS as the option. There was no FAT32
Any clues as to format it in FAT32?
Using Win98 startup disk , it didnt recognise the 80 Gb, only 10Gb was visible

Is there any particular reason why you want to format it with FAT32? Just format it as NTFS and you'll be fine

 

[altonb1]

Ata past job where we used NT4, I used a 2GB Fat partition and an 8GB NTFS partition. The Fat partition was the corporate standard, but I formatted the rest as NTFS because I oculd control access to it a little better than a FAT partition. NTFS IS more secure, plus you can compress individual files, directories, etc. Since this is not your primary drive, i would recommend NTFS over FAT32. Definitely!

 

[bhakasur]

It seems that Win98 has problems addressing more than 32Gb .Is this true ?

 

[bruincal]

Windows 98 has problems with drives over 64GB. I know, because when I was running win98 and I plugged in my 100gb drive, everything worked fine ... until I started to run low on physical memory. What happened was, that over 64GB, the byte size reported in win98 overflows, and in My Computer, and everything, it stated a negative capacity. So the virtual memory manager dyamically allocates a negative amount of memory, and my page file kept increasing until it filled the drive .. and eventually crashed. I fixed it by setting my own settings for virtual memory.

Even Scandisk in win98 has problems, I believe. On a thorough disk surface scan, the program reports cluster errors for every cluster after 64GB...

The windows support site says that it is a known problem and will not be fixed because it would require redoing the entire win98 architecture.

 

[bhakasur]

Hey ppl, i have installed it on WinXp, WinNT. I can live without it on Win98.
I appreciate all your help/suggestions.