Not detecting all disks installed
 

On one of my computers with Win 98, there are 3 hard drives and 1 CD-RW
installed. The system BIOS detects all 4 of these drives with no problems.
However, when in My Computer only 2 hard drives and the CD-RW are displayed
and the second drive doesn't work, coming up with the error messge "D:\ is
not accessable. A device attached to the system is not responding - Retry /
Cancel"

Does anyone know how to make it display all 3 hard drives and get it to read
all of them? I don't want to format any of the drives.

Not detecting all disks installed
 

Just an afterthought:
HD 1 is the boot drive and is about 1 GB
HD 2 is detected but can't be read and in 10.5 GB
HD 3 is not detected by windows at all and in 6.5 GB
The CD dive is 40x12x48 CD-RW high speed.

HD2 and 3 mat be formatted in NFTS file mode.

I do not have any oh the install disks.

The same problem occurs if I boot using Win 95.

Not detecting all disks installed
 

HD2 and 3 may be formatted in NFTS file mode.

Then you will see them in Device Manager (and probably in My Computer) as the
drives -- but won't access them in Win9x/ME: Win9x/ME do not work with NTFS
drives.

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Mikhail Zhilin
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:17:26 -0800, "Ricardo"
wrote:

Just an afterthought:
HD 1 is the boot drive and is about 1 GB
HD 2 is detected but can't be read and in 10.5 GB
HD 3 is not detected by windows at all and in 6.5 GB
The CD dive is 40x12x48 CD-RW high speed.

HD2 and 3 mat be formatted in NFTS file mode.

I do not have any oh the install disks.

The same problem occurs if I boot using Win 95.

Not detecting all disks installed
 

In order to see an NTFS partition, W98 needs a special driver that is read
only. Suggest you remake the partitions using fat 32.

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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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"Ricardo" wrote in message
...
On one of my computers with Win 98, there are 3 hard drives and 1 CD-RW
installed. The system BIOS detects all 4 of these drives with no problems.
However, when in My Computer only 2 hard drives and the CD-RW are
displayed
and the second drive doesn't work, coming up with the error messge "D:\ is
not accessable. A device attached to the system is not responding - Retry
/
Cancel"

Does anyone know how to make it display all 3 hard drives and get it to
read
all of them? I don't want to format any of the drives.