New H/D in BIOS but not in win 98...

[terbert]

Hi all,
I have just installed a slave h/d but although it is showing in the boot-up screen as installed, windows 98 is not recognising it. In Control panel, System, Hardware devices it is shown, but has no drive letter. In Control panel, add Hardware, it is not found. Any ideas.

The H/D is Excelstor Jupiter 60gig. Jumpers are correct. It is saved in CMOS
Tony C

[Jared]

hmmm..I seem to recall that Windows 98 can only recognize hard drives of a specific size or smaller, but I can't remember what that limit was...

I do remember that it would only recognize and utilize 512MB memory...:-)

[congo]

If the drive isn't partitioned or formatted it might not show in Windows. You may have to partition and/or format it from your startup disk, or use the manufacturers utility to get the system to recognise it.

Other than that, some PC's are funny about where the drive is on the cable, despite the jumper settings on the drive. You could try setting the jumpers to cable select and placing the drives in the correct order on the IDE ribbon for master and slave if on the same ribbon. Or try different combinations of placing it on the secondary IDE ribbon, (as long as its a high speed ribbon.)

And then there is the 512mb limit for win'98........

Well I always used 3 x 256mb sticks in '98SE.... it certainly recognised it, and I certainly imagined it improved my rig.

The is also a configuration utility in Win'98SE that allows a ram setting up to 999mb, Mine auto configured to 768mb.

Win'98SE would crash with 1024 mb on board for me....  as soon as I installed a video driver.

[terbert]

Thanks guys, we will get there somehow

Tony C

[GeForce]

terbert,

Make sure you have run FDISK and formatted the drive into one (or more) partitions. Then make sure your BIOS is up to date. Look on the manufacturer's website for updates.

Jonathan

[terbert]

Hi Guys

Thanks GeForce, Will do.  ;)  

We will overcome. However should this go a*se upwards, I will see you all again in the future when I can afford a new Computer

Tony

[terbert]

Hi all




Thanks for all your help,,      ;D WE ARE UP AND RUNNING

Tony C

[congo]

Great! Do you know how you fixed it?

[terbert]

 Hi Congo,

Basically, I just followed what the guys said to do....

Installed in comp
Checked it appeared in bootup screen,
Made a Startup floppy disc,
Went to FDISK
Followed instructions to partition,
Went to FORMAT D: and formatted...Comp did rest.

Tip.....Spend a little time studying the on screen instructions in FDISK and  make sure you do the right disk. It is obvious which disk you need to do, assuming the new disk is a different size to the original, as the size is there before you, in my case No 1 disk was 10GB and the new one I added showed up as 60GB. I did not load an operating system to the new disk, as I wish to use this as a slave only. If I buy a new system it will more than problably have Windows installed, so I will just switch the slave to be a slave in the new machine.

Tony  

[congo]

Good one,

You can also install an op sys on the slave as a backup, it doesnt use much room on a 60gig drive, in case you lose your main boot drive. You just need to make sure the jumpers are set right on the drives to do what you want.

Cheers