How To Install a 80gig HDD as a slave

im a dj an im trying to put an 80 gig hard drive into my wins98 that already
has 2x20 gig hdd,the drive 80 gig has music file already on it but the drive
cames from my other computer that has xp an its in the computer now but
doesn't see the drive please help me

If the drive was created with a file system that Windows doesn't understand,
such as NTFS, then Windows will not see it and will not be able to use it.
Since it was installed in an XP system, this is likely. Also, it is
possible that the drive will be configured differently by the BIOS when it
is installed in the different machine, so even if it had a file system that
Windows can use, it still wouldn't be recognised.

I would recommend installing it back into the XP machine, and connecting the
two PCs in a network. If the W98 machine can see the XP machine then it can
be configured to access the files on the disk regardless of the file system
it uses.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"hamma" wrote in message
...
im a dj an im trying to put an 80 gig hard drive into my wins98 that
already
has 2x20 gig hdd,the drive 80 gig has music file already on it but the
drive
cames from my other computer that has xp an its in the computer now but
doesn't see the drive please help me

You can convert the file system from NTFS to FAT32 with some utility like
partition magic or partition commander, or other such utilities.

You could also install in your Win98 machine something like NTFSfor
Windows98. This lets you read and write to the NTFS drive without changing
its file structure from Windows 98. There are some other free ones out
there that just let you read it, without changing the contents, too.


"hamma" wrote in message
...
im a dj an im trying to put an 80 gig hard drive into my wins98 that
already
has 2x20 gig hdd,the drive 80 gig has music file already on it but the
drive
cames from my other computer that has xp an its in the computer now but
doesn't see the drive please help me

I have the same issue. the files in the disk (USB) was created in XP and my
WIN 98 does not see the files and require me to format this. What utility is
there for windows 98 to read NTFS
thank you
Gan

"Jay" wrote:

You can convert the file system from NTFS to FAT32 with some utility like
partition magic or partition commander, or other such utilities.

You could also install in your Win98 machine something like NTFSfor
Windows98. This lets you read and write to the NTFS drive without changing
its file structure from Windows 98. There are some other free ones out
there that just let you read it, without changing the contents, too.


"hamma" wrote in message
...
im a dj an im trying to put an 80 gig hard drive into my wins98 that
already
has 2x20 gig hdd,the drive 80 gig has music file already on it but the
drive
cames from my other computer that has xp an its in the computer now but
doesn't see the drive please help me

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"gan" wrote in message
...
I have the same issue. the files in the disk (USB) was created in XP and
my
WIN 98 does not see the files and require me to format this. What utility
is
there for windows 98 to read NTFS
thank you
Gan

"Jay" wrote:

You can convert the file system from NTFS to FAT32 with some utility
like
partition magic or partition commander, or other such utilities.

You could also install in your Win98 machine something like NTFSfor
Windows98. This lets you read and write to the NTFS drive without
changing
its file structure from Windows 98. There are some other free ones out
there that just let you read it, without changing the contents, too.


"hamma" wrote in message
...
im a dj an im trying to put an 80 gig hard drive into my wins98 that
already
has 2x20 gig hdd,the drive 80 gig has music file already on it but the
drive
cames from my other computer that has xp an its in the computer now
but
doesn't see the drive please help me