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External Hard Drive in Hard Drive Enclosure installs on win 98 but doesnt show in My Computer

Hi guys I bought an external hard drive enclosure and put a 80GB drive into it.

I plugged it into my xp machine and it detected andworked fine.

I plugged it into my windows 98 machine but it wont work.  It says the drivers are installing or installed and ive used the driver disk that cam with the enclosure.

But the drive does not show in My Computer.

To get it to work in XP Pro I had to right click my computer and click "manage" and then right click and format the drive as it was a brand new drive.

But how do i do the same equivalent for 98se

cheers

Mat
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You must make sure the drivers are for Win98.

This will also ensure it is Win98SE compatible.

Did you check the manufacturers websites (enclosure and HDD)?

Also confirm you have installed or reinstall this patch:

USB Devices May Not Work in Windows 98 Second Edition
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=240075

Good luck,

Zee
How is the disk formatted? FAT or NTFS? Windows 98 is unable to access NTFS.
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well in windows XP Pro i went into disk management and set the new drive as a "new volume" and formatted it there

The drive is set to Master and I believe its all set up and formatted corectly, However, its this issue with the drive not displaying itself in My Computer thats causing the problem

mat
But is it formatted in NTFS or FAT? You can see that in the disk manager

The doubt here is if the removable drive was formatted in NTFS while plugged to the WinXP PC.

If it was, Win98SE won't be able to access it, as it will only understand FAT.

Concluding, it will be unusable in Win98SE.

But the HDD should be seen in Device Manager.

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i think it will be in NTFS, since xp will only format 32 GB in FAT32.
To use your disk on both PC's, i would suggest taking all the data off it on the XP PC
Then, connect it to the ide cable of the win98 PC as slave  
use FDISK to erase the partition, make a new one, and format it as a 80 Gb FAT32 drive.
then put it in your enclosure again.
Just to reiterate, even if you wipe the partition(s), recreate it/them, and then format as FAT32, you will most likely still need the right USB Drivers for the drive to be accessed from Windows 98 or 98se.  These should have been supplied on CD with the enclosure, and the drive will probably appear as a removable drive with the letter after your last CD device.  I doubt you will be able to boot from that drive without full support from the BIOS and/or the correct drivers being loaded at startup, so don't install Windows on it and assume that you can use it to boot to and run Windows from.
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hoping the win 98 is a desktop, how about hooking up new HD as secondary and have Win98 do the format .

you should be able to see it after that, then put HD back into enclosure and see if XP sees it too.

this will Narrow down if the enclosure drivers are not loading correctly on the win98 box
it's  a laptop computer.

I have decided to buy a windows XP home upgrade for windows 98se on the laptop this will sort my problem out then.

cheers

Mat
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I have windows 98se currently installed and all I was going to do was put the xp upgrade cd in the drive and upgrade like that.

I do have the windows 98se disk as well although its a toshiba "recovery" cd which I understand still contains win98se files.

I also have another OEM win98se disk I think I could use if the toshiba one does not work....

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Thank you, Mat