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2nd hard drive
I have 2 hard drive on one controler on my computer.
My operating sys is on the first dirve with 2 partions. And I have some important data on my 2nd hard drive.
I deleted the patition on my first hard drive to make it into one partion.
After I format the first drive and installed win98 on it and try to find my second hard drive, it does not seem to be there.
How do I make my sys recoginize the 2nd hard drive partition so I can get access to the data that was on there before?
My operating sys is on the first dirve with 2 partions. And I have some important data on my 2nd hard drive.
I deleted the patition on my first hard drive to make it into one partion.
After I format the first drive and installed win98 on it and try to find my second hard drive, it does not seem to be there.
How do I make my sys recoginize the 2nd hard drive partition so I can get access to the data that was on there before?
What operating system do you have on 2nd hard drive ?
Maybe it is partitioned NTFS or some other Win98 can't read.
Assuming you could previously read both drives on the 1 controller try booting to a Win95 or Dos boot disk & see if you can see both drives
Do you have a 2nd controller. Try the 2nd HDD on the secondary controller or alternatively try your CDrom as a slave on the Primary controller & see if you can see that.
What brand are these hard drives. There are certain drives (Conner & some Maxtors for example) which don't like being a slave or even sharing another device on the same controller. Try different configurations & see how you go.
Maybe it is partitioned NTFS or some other Win98 can't read.
Assuming you could previously read both drives on the 1 controller try booting to a Win95 or Dos boot disk & see if you can see both drives
Do you have a 2nd controller. Try the 2nd HDD on the secondary controller or alternatively try your CDrom as a slave on the Primary controller & see if you can see that.
What brand are these hard drives. There are certain drives (Conner & some Maxtors for example) which don't like being a slave or even sharing another device on the same controller. Try different configurations & see how you go.
What did you use to delete and re-create the partitions?
FDISK? Partition Magic?
Did you go into your sys bios and make sure that both drives are recognized? you may have to remind it that it has two harddrives?
As asked above, can you see the other drive in Win98? Was the 1st drive originally loaded w/ Win98 as the OS?
Did you ensure that your Hard Drive Controller in connected correctly?
FDISK? Partition Magic?
Did you go into your sys bios and make sure that both drives are recognized? you may have to remind it that it has two harddrives?
As asked above, can you see the other drive in Win98? Was the 1st drive originally loaded w/ Win98 as the OS?
Did you ensure that your Hard Drive Controller in connected correctly?
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