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Windows Does Not See Full Drive
I've installed a 120 gig Seagate drive into an older HP computer. I
partitioned the drive as follows: c: 16 gig primary - active d: 25 gig logical e: 25 gig f: 25 gig g: 24 gig I can run a chkdsk and a scandsk on all of these in DOS. Windows 98, however, can only see the C and the D drives. In Windows explorer, any drive other than C or D gives the error, "X:\ is not accessible. A device attached to the system is not functioning". If I open a DOS box, trying to read the drive gives a "General failure reading drive X". If I then restart in DOS, I am able to read the drive. It is my understanding that Windows 98 can see a drive up to 137 gig. I don't want to use a DDO (ontrack, etc). I know I can limit the drive to 32 gig if I must. My thinking is if the drive can be read in DOS and the newer version of FDISK can see the partitions then I don't have a BIOS issue -- why do I have a Windows issue? All help is appreciated! |
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Windows Does Not See Full Drive
Start the computer in Safe mode, then go to "Control Panel", "System",
"Device Manager" and remove the entries from the "Disk drives" and "Hard disk controllers" sections. Then restart normally. You may be prompted for your Windows 98 CD. Ben "Tom Lisk" Tom wrote in message ... I've installed a 120 gig Seagate drive into an older HP computer. I partitioned the drive as follows: c: 16 gig primary - active d: 25 gig logical e: 25 gig f: 25 gig g: 24 gig I can run a chkdsk and a scandsk on all of these in DOS. Windows 98, however, can only see the C and the D drives. In Windows explorer, any drive other than C or D gives the error, "X:\ is not accessible. A device attached to the system is not functioning". If I open a DOS box, trying to read the drive gives a "General failure reading drive X". If I then restart in DOS, I am able to read the drive. It is my understanding that Windows 98 can see a drive up to 137 gig. I don't want to use a DDO (ontrack, etc). I know I can limit the drive to 32 gig if I must. My thinking is if the drive can be read in DOS and the newer version of FDISK can see the partitions then I don't have a BIOS issue -- why do I have a Windows issue? All help is appreciated! |
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Windows Does Not See Full Drive
Ron & Ben,
Thank you for your replies! I checked for an updated BIOS, no joy. This machine uses Phoenix 4.06 BIOS with an Intel BX chipset. I was surprised to find the BIOS itself showed the drive to be 64 gig. So I tried partitioning so that the E drive was in the space between 32 gig and kept under 64 gig. Again, worked fine in DOS but still could not be seen by Windows 98. I decided finally to just make a C and a D drive keeping under 32 gig. This machine belongs to my niece who goes to school about 2 hours away from me. Stability is important or Uncle Tom gets the call! Ben, I wasn't able to try your suggestion as I had to return the machine yesterday. I will attempt it the next time I have my hands on it. From a purely academic standpoint, I'd still like to understand the problem. At one time I had a machine of this class with the Award BIOS. When I tried to install a drive over 32 gig, the machine did not acknowledge it. I had to install the 32 gig limit jumper until I was able to purchase a Promise controller card. This machine sees the drive, is able to format the drive and yet Windows will not read anything over 32 gig. Just doesn't make sense to me. Again, thank you for your help! Tom |
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