How do I initialize it then ?

I thought about removing this drive Im on now so its impossible to get it mixed up and erase the wrong drive, but the new drive (slave) dosn't even have anything on it yet so how can it run DOS

 

Boot up off a boot disk - or Windows 98 Setup Disk - into DOS...then do the bit you need to!!

 

Ranj Iv'e read something similar before and that didn't make sense either.

When I boot up with a start disk how will I know im not buggering up this drive I am currently on ..... thats my only worry.

 

nutts

please read this link

very very detailed with screen shots

http://www.pctechguide.com/tutorials..._Partition.htm

 

Ranj/Lee

On my PC I have drives, A, C, D, E, & F

When I go to FDISK option 5 to sort out the new one it only shows

1 C
2 D

Is D the new one then ? ie no longer my CD ROM Drive

 

correct mate

 

I hope so

 

Methinks ebuyer had a bad batch of 256 DIMMs
Might try somewhere else for mine this year!!

 

is it fuck!!!!

use a bit of common sense, look at the drive size!!!!

is drive D a percentage of drive C or is it the full size of the new Hard Drive

if it aint either, it aint picking it up

 

Appologies it wasn't C & D

But

C @ 25621
F @ 31 (smart media card)

I take it it isn't either ..... which goes back to my 1st question.

device manager is seeing it there, but FDISK not

 

COR you haven't just packed in smoking have you



Martin

 

are the jumpers on the new slave drive set as slave

 

yes mate.

When I boot up the black screen see's it all as being there with a size of 65xxx ie bigger than my 28meg C drive at present.

 

all you need to do is initialize the drive within windows

right mouse click my computer and select manage

then click disk management

your drive should appear there and not set up

just right click it and select initialize it should format it and setup with a drive letter

 

Win 98 Craig..... so no "manage" option

 

Cant you load on Win XP first, ie upgrade the Win 98 then put the new drive in, is there enough space though?

Martin

 

ahh shit

 

Capacity 25050.1 MB
Free Space 4292.8 MB

Is that enough to try it ??

 

sorry people



will look @ the thread again tomorrow

 

No need to be sorry your trying to help Much Appreciated Sorry wrong smilie

 

nuts - add me 2 ur msn list

stuhyde1@hotmail.com

i'll chat in morning

 

Will do Stu but I wont be near this PC in the morning

 

Given up until tomorrow evening now Still nothing in FDISK but its showing up everywhere else.

 

Tony,

My Brother recommends same as I said, upgrade to XP, install new drive then use "Ghost" or similar to clone old drive to new drive. New drive will be best as master as it probably spins faster.

Martin

 

Will give that a try later when I get home

Was worried incase its some sort of clash or something. If its not being seen now will it be seen once XP is installed ? Only one way to find out I suppose.

 

sorry about last night guys

Nuts

first thing, got me calendar this morning, top notch and faster than i thought

with ur drive, if uve got a pc decent enough to hold xp (id say an ABSOLUTE minimum of 256MB of ram) Install a FRESH XP onto your new drive then copy all your documents/vids/pics across, then just format your old drive and just use it for dumping stuff.

but, if fdisk isnt picking up the new drive, im thinking something is wrong with the installation of the new drive.

on your motherboard, you will have 2 IDE channels, im presuming your using both because of the 2 hard drives and your gonna have a cd-rom.

so the ribbon cable that is holding 2 devices, just make sure one is set to primary and one set to master. Im presuming this has been explained to you.

Does it pick up the drive OK in the BIOS with the correct name?

<< wrong smiley? hahaha

 

Stu,

Thanks so far. Old drive is set as Primary new drive is set as slave on the same IDE cable. On the back of the new drive I have changed the jumper to be slave (both blocks to the right). BIOS is seeing it correct with the correct name Hitatchi xxxx whatever. Device manager has no conflicts and sees it okay too. FDISK just shows C and F as mentioned above.

 

un fdisk, u need to change "fixed disk drive"

 

wait a sec... i just thought of something.. doesnt fdisk only recognise drives under a certain size? 32gb or 60gb or something? that might be it!

anyway you really wanna be putting NTFS on there instead of FAT32

 

Its an 80 gig Jim.

I will wait until I get home again now and get the details to visit the Hitachi website. Im sure I have heard that in the distant past that it may not recognise it if its too big now you mention it. There may be a way of altering the jumper settings on the hard drive itself so it thinks its actually smaller.

 

Tony,

Laurence has sent a couple of e-mails that I have forwarded to you regarding this, here is the content of what he said:

"a clean install on the new Drive would be best but if he wants to keep software, upgrade win 98 to xp. If file format is fat32 he can then use ghost or something to clone drive to new one, or he could add new drive as a secondary drive. It probably spins faster than the old one though so would be better as main drive, it will start quicker."

"Also, once he upgrades to xp and connects the 80gig drive he can go into disk manager and format the disk, it wont see it as a drive till its formatted but disk manager will"

Hope this helps,

Martin

 

Does XP load over the top of 98 ? Current drive on Win 98 is FAT32 formatted.

If its not seeing it now due to the above (possible) size issue, will it see it later on with XP installed on it ?

Only way is to try it I suppose If Im offline later you'll know why


Tiff I hope your happily playing games on yours now

 

MANY THANKS to Nigel (Sketch) he diagnosed the problem and sent me over a patch for my version of FDISK. I dropped it onto my Win98 startup disc and low and behold when run up popped my new drive Was then able to partition and format it as normal.

Sketch