External 250GB HD USB non Recognized as Drive on W98SE

I have a question regarding a Dell Dimension XPS T500. I am trying to
install an external hard drive which is a Maxtor 6 250GB drive mounted
in a Metal Gear USB 2.0 external drive box. The USB drivers came with
the drive unit and it recognizes the hardware but does not install the
drive as a Disk with a drive letter. The particulars of my system are
listed below. The bios is up to A11. Will this system be able to read
this 250GB drive? Is there a limitation on the size of the drive on
this machine? Is there something I can do to make it read the drive?
The drive does work on a newer Latitude 610 w/Win2000. Thanks!

Dell XPS T500
WIN 98 SE
BIOS A11
128 MB RAM
13.6GB IBM Internal HD
Original CD
DVD-RW
NEC USB 2.0 PCI
Firewire card

Have you partitioned and formatted the drive??
until you do this, Windows won't be able to see it, or assign a drive letter

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

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I have a question regarding a Dell Dimension XPS T500. I am trying to
install an external hard drive which is a Maxtor 6 250GB drive mounted
in a Metal Gear USB 2.0 external drive box. The USB drivers came with
the drive unit and it recognizes the hardware but does not install the
drive as a Disk with a drive letter. The particulars of my system are
listed below. The bios is up to A11. Will this system be able to read
this 250GB drive? Is there a limitation on the size of the drive on
this machine? Is there something I can do to make it read the drive?
The drive does work on a newer Latitude 610 w/Win2000. Thanks!

Dell XPS T500
WIN 98 SE
BIOS A11
128 MB RAM
13.6GB IBM Internal HD
Original CD
DVD-RW
NEC USB 2.0 PCI
Firewire card

If you partitioned and formatted from Win2K, then the chances are that you
formatted it NTFS - in which case the partition(s) cannot be seen by any
Win9x OS.

Partition to FAT32 using any partition manager.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

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Have you partitioned and formatted the drive??
until you do this, Windows won't be able to see it, or assign a drive
letter

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
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I have a question regarding a Dell Dimension XPS T500. I am trying to
install an external hard drive which is a Maxtor 6 250GB drive mounted
in a Metal Gear USB 2.0 external drive box. The USB drivers came with
the drive unit and it recognizes the hardware but does not install the
drive as a Disk with a drive letter. The particulars of my system are
listed below. The bios is up to A11. Will this system be able to read
this 250GB drive? Is there a limitation on the size of the drive on
this machine? Is there something I can do to make it read the drive?
The drive does work on a newer Latitude 610 w/Win2000. Thanks!

Dell XPS T500
WIN 98 SE
BIOS A11
128 MB RAM
13.6GB IBM Internal HD
Original CD
DVD-RW
NEC USB 2.0 PCI
Firewire card