HardDrive issue

I reformated my main physical Hardrive, and reinstalled
win98, the problem is however, that "My Computer" does not
show anything for my 2nd physical harddrive, that was
present before the formating and reinstallation.
The 2nd HD shows up in my BIOS, how can I fix this!!?

Thanx in advance

Have you confirmed that the second drive is working properly?

Do FDISK /Status at a DOS prompt to see what partitions Windows recognises
on the second drive.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Bob" wrote in message
...
I reformated my main physical Hardrive, and reinstalled
win98, the problem is however, that "My Computer" does not
show anything for my 2nd physical harddrive, that was
present before the formating and reinstallation.
The 2nd HD shows up in my BIOS, how can I fix this!!?

Thanx in advance

Thanx Jeff, the 2nd drive is working correctly from what i
can tell. It was working perfect before the reformat of
the other drive, and I nothing to it.

Fdisk recognizes the 2nd drive, and it just tested the
integrity. The size that fd shows is smaller than the
actual size, if that is anything.

I have valuable data of course on that drive and loosing
it is not an option...




-----Original Message-----
Have you confirmed that the second drive is working
properly?

Do FDISK /Status at a DOS prompt to see what partitions
Windows recognises
on the second drive.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Bob" wrote in message
...
I reformated my main physical Hardrive, and reinstalled
win98, the problem is however, that "My Computer" does
not
show anything for my 2nd physical harddrive, that was
present before the formating and reinstallation.
The 2nd HD shows up in my BIOS, how can I fix this!!?

Thanx in advance


.

What did FDISK /Status say about the partitioning on the drive? Did it see
a partition and did it correctly identify the partition type and size (the
size might be less than the disk size)?
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"bob" wrote in message
...
Thanx Jeff, the 2nd drive is working correctly from what i
can tell. It was working perfect before the reformat of
the other drive, and I nothing to it.

Fdisk recognizes the 2nd drive, and it just tested the
integrity. The size that fd shows is smaller than the
actual size, if that is anything.

I have valuable data of course on that drive and loosing
it is not an option...




-----Original Message-----
Have you confirmed that the second drive is working
properly?

Do FDISK /Status at a DOS prompt to see what partitions
Windows recognises
on the second drive.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Bob" wrote in message
.. .
I reformated my main physical Hardrive, and reinstalled
win98, the problem is however, that "My Computer" does
not
show anything for my 2nd physical harddrive, that was
present before the formating and reinstallation.
The 2nd HD shows up in my BIOS, how can I fix this!!?

Thanx in advance


.

Had you been using a drive overlay program?

"Bob" wrote in message
...
I reformated my main physical Hardrive, and reinstalled
win98, the problem is however, that "My Computer" does not
show anything for my 2nd physical harddrive, that was
present before the formating and reinstallation.
The 2nd HD shows up in my BIOS, how can I fix this!!?

Thanx in advance

no. not too familar with drive overlay. would the software
that comes with WEST DIG HD be considered overlay?
When I installed the drive way before my primary master
reformat i used the software bundled.
-----Original Message-----
Had you been using a drive overlay program?

"Bob" wrote in message
...
I reformated my main physical Hardrive, and reinstalled
win98, the problem is however, that "My Computer" does
not
show anything for my 2nd physical harddrive, that was
present before the formating and reinstallation.
The 2nd HD shows up in my BIOS, how can I fix this!!?

Thanx in advance

.

The Western Digital software is the drive overlay. It may be some other
things besides, such as disk partitioning and formatting, but it's the
overlay you want. Consult the Western Digital documentation for information
on installing the overlay into an existing system, so it will support an
add-on hard disk drive.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
wrote in message
...
no. not too familar with drive overlay. would the software
that comes with WEST DIG HD be considered overlay?
When I installed the drive way before my primary master
reformat i used the software bundled.

"10/4" I have contacted WD.
-----Original Message-----
The Western Digital software is the drive overlay. It may
be some other
things besides, such as disk partitioning and formatting,
but it's the
overlay you want. Consult the Western Digital
documentation for information
on installing the overlay into an existing system, so it
will support an
add-on hard disk drive.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
wrote in message
...
no. not too familar with drive overlay. would the
software
that comes with WEST DIG HD be considered overlay?
When I installed the drive way before my primary master
reformat i used the software bundled.


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That's not actually what I recommended, but it might work. Be aware that
most versions of this software cannot be removed from the partition without
destroying all the data on the partition. If you want to preserve any data
on that drive then you must double check that any procedure you are given
for removing the software will properly preserve all other data on the
drive.

If you don't want any data on the drive it is simpler to ZAP or WIPE the
drive than to go through the removal process.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
wrote in message
...
"10/4" I have contacted WD.
-----Original Message-----
The Western Digital software is the drive overlay. It may
be some other
things besides, such as disk partitioning and formatting,
but it's the
overlay you want. Consult the Western Digital
documentation for information
on installing the overlay into an existing system, so it
will support an
add-on hard disk drive.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
wrote in message
.. .
no. not too familar with drive overlay. would the
software
that comes with WEST DIG HD be considered overlay?
When I installed the drive way before my primary master
reformat i used the software bundled.


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