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Recognizing an External Hard drive in Win98 SE
I have a dual boot system, and am using both Win98 SE and Windows 2000, both of which are installed on my first hard drive. This has worked well for me for several years, and I have no trouble reading many USB devices with either OS. But I have had a USB 2.0 Western Digital external hard drive for a couple of years, that is only recognizable under Win 2000. Just recently I bought another external hard drive, this one is by Seagate and naturally it is USB 2.0. It also seems to not be recognizable by Win98 SE, yet is by Win 2000. The odd thing here is this mother board has several USB 2.0 ports on it, and both these drives are plugged into these ports. So - logic tells me it cannot be the mother board, but MUST be the OS and/or the lack of correct drivers for the Win 98 SE, but I've been unable to locate the needed drivers for either hard drive. But to give more information on this particular computer, which was an upgrage that I assembled in January of this year, using a Biostar P4M80-M4 motherboard and an Intel Celeron 2.66 MHz cpu. It has a VIA chipset and a VIA VT 82CX86 USB Controller, Vers. 1.00 with speed of 48 MHz, on this motherboard. I was provided with a CD with this motherboard, and let both OS's collect what they felt needed from it, when setting it up. I've read dozens and dozens of posts on this particular subject in this and other NGs, but still do not have any idea what drivers are missing or perhaps just need updating. Can anyone help me here? Thanks in advance. Olin McDaniel To reply by email, please remove "abcd" from Return address ----------------------------------------------------- "Ignorance is treatable, Stupidity is incurable. Sometimes the difference is hardly distinguishable, however." |
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Recognizing an External Hard drive in Win98 SE
"Olin K. McDaniel" wrote in message ... I have a dual boot system, and am using both Win98 SE and Windows 2000, both of which are installed on my first hard drive. This has worked well for me for several years, and I have no trouble reading many USB devices with either OS. But I have had a USB 2.0 Western Digital external hard drive for a couple of years, that is only recognizable under Win 2000. Just recently I bought another external hard drive, this one is by Seagate and naturally it is USB 2.0. It also seems to not be recognizable by Win98 SE, yet is by Win 2000. The odd thing here is this mother board has several USB 2.0 ports on it, and both these drives are plugged into these ports. So - logic tells me it cannot be the mother board, but MUST be the OS and/or the lack of correct drivers for the Win 98 SE, but I've been unable to locate the needed drivers for either hard drive. But to give more information on this particular computer, which was an upgrage that I assembled in January of this year, using a Biostar P4M80-M4 motherboard and an Intel Celeron 2.66 MHz cpu. It has a VIA chipset and a VIA VT 82CX86 USB Controller, Vers. 1.00 with speed of 48 MHz, on this motherboard. I was provided with a CD with this motherboard, and let both OS's collect what they felt needed from it, when setting it up. I've read dozens and dozens of posts on this particular subject in this and other NGs, but still do not have any idea what drivers are missing or perhaps just need updating. Can anyone help me here? Thanks in advance. Olin McDaniel If the drive is NTFS, then win98 cannot recognize the file system |
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Recognizing an External Hard drive in Win98 SE
"Olin K. McDaniel" wrote in message ... I have a dual boot system, and am using both Win98 SE and Windows 2000, both of which are installed on my first hard drive. This has worked well for me for several years, and I have no trouble reading many USB devices with either OS. But I have had a USB 2.0 Western Digital external hard drive for a couple of years, that is only recognizable under Win 2000. Just recently I bought another external hard drive, this one is by Seagate and naturally it is USB 2.0. It also seems to not be recognizable by Win98 SE, yet is by Win 2000. The odd thing here is this mother board has several USB 2.0 ports on it, and both these drives are plugged into these ports. So - logic tells me it cannot be the mother board, but MUST be the OS and/or the lack of correct drivers for the Win 98 SE, but I've been unable to locate the needed drivers for either hard drive. But to give more information on this particular computer, which was an upgrage that I assembled in January of this year, using a Biostar P4M80-M4 motherboard and an Intel Celeron 2.66 MHz cpu. It has a VIA chipset and a VIA VT 82CX86 USB Controller, Vers. 1.00 with speed of 48 MHz, on this motherboard. I was provided with a CD with this motherboard, and let both OS's collect what they felt needed from it, when setting it up. I've read dozens and dozens of posts on this particular subject in this and other NGs, but still do not have any idea what drivers are missing or perhaps just need updating. Can anyone help me here? Thanks in advance. Olin McDaniel If the drive is NTFS, then win98 cannot recognize the file system |
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Recognizing an External Hard drive in Win98 SE
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:04:00 -0500, "philo" wrote:
"Olin K. McDaniel" wrote in message .. . I have a dual boot system, and am using both Win98 SE and Windows 2000, both of which are installed on my first hard drive. This has worked well for me for several years, and I have no trouble reading many USB devices with either OS. But I have had a USB 2.0 Western Digital external hard drive for a couple of years, that is only recognizable under Win 2000. Just recently I bought another external hard drive, this one is by Seagate and naturally it is USB 2.0. It also seems to not be recognizable by Win98 SE, yet is by Win 2000. The odd thing here is this mother board has several USB 2.0 ports on it, and both these drives are plugged into these ports. So - logic tells me it cannot be the mother board, but MUST be the OS and/or the lack of correct drivers for the Win 98 SE, but I've been unable to locate the needed drivers for either hard drive. But to give more information on this particular computer, which was an upgrage that I assembled in January of this year, using a Biostar P4M80-M4 motherboard and an Intel Celeron 2.66 MHz cpu. It has a VIA chipset and a VIA VT 82CX86 USB Controller, Vers. 1.00 with speed of 48 MHz, on this motherboard. I was provided with a CD with this motherboard, and let both OS's collect what they felt needed from it, when setting it up. I've read dozens and dozens of posts on this particular subject in this and other NGs, but still do not have any idea what drivers are missing or perhaps just need updating. Can anyone help me here? Thanks in advance. Olin McDaniel If the drive is NTFS, then win98 cannot recognize the file system Hate to sound nasty, but NTFS has/had nothing to do with it. It was & still is a driver problem.] Fortunately, I was able to find a set of drivers for the 2 year old Western Digital USB drive, and it now works under Win98SE. However, after hours of searching and downloading drivers from Seagate, it seems they have locked the door on this. So, I say to hell with Seagate's Free Agent drives. But they got my money, and I've got a drive that "even after reformatting" is unusable in Win98SE, even though it works just fine in Windows 2000. Thanks for nothing. Olin McDaniel To reply by email, please remove "abcd" from Return address ----------------------------------------------------- "Ignorance is treatable, Stupidity is incurable. Sometimes the difference is hardly distinguishable, however." |
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Recognizing an External Hard drive in Win98 SE
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:04:00 -0500, "philo" wrote:
"Olin K. McDaniel" wrote in message .. . I have a dual boot system, and am using both Win98 SE and Windows 2000, both of which are installed on my first hard drive. This has worked well for me for several years, and I have no trouble reading many USB devices with either OS. But I have had a USB 2.0 Western Digital external hard drive for a couple of years, that is only recognizable under Win 2000. Just recently I bought another external hard drive, this one is by Seagate and naturally it is USB 2.0. It also seems to not be recognizable by Win98 SE, yet is by Win 2000. The odd thing here is this mother board has several USB 2.0 ports on it, and both these drives are plugged into these ports. So - logic tells me it cannot be the mother board, but MUST be the OS and/or the lack of correct drivers for the Win 98 SE, but I've been unable to locate the needed drivers for either hard drive. But to give more information on this particular computer, which was an upgrage that I assembled in January of this year, using a Biostar P4M80-M4 motherboard and an Intel Celeron 2.66 MHz cpu. It has a VIA chipset and a VIA VT 82CX86 USB Controller, Vers. 1.00 with speed of 48 MHz, on this motherboard. I was provided with a CD with this motherboard, and let both OS's collect what they felt needed from it, when setting it up. I've read dozens and dozens of posts on this particular subject in this and other NGs, but still do not have any idea what drivers are missing or perhaps just need updating. Can anyone help me here? Thanks in advance. Olin McDaniel If the drive is NTFS, then win98 cannot recognize the file system Hate to sound nasty, but NTFS has/had nothing to do with it. It was & still is a driver problem.] Fortunately, I was able to find a set of drivers for the 2 year old Western Digital USB drive, and it now works under Win98SE. However, after hours of searching and downloading drivers from Seagate, it seems they have locked the door on this. So, I say to hell with Seagate's Free Agent drives. But they got my money, and I've got a drive that "even after reformatting" is unusable in Win98SE, even though it works just fine in Windows 2000. Thanks for nothing. Olin McDaniel To reply by email, please remove "abcd" from Return address ----------------------------------------------------- "Ignorance is treatable, Stupidity is incurable. Sometimes the difference is hardly distinguishable, however." |
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Recognizing an External Hard drive in Win98 SE
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:40:50 GMT, (Olin
K. McDaniel) put finger to keyboard and composed: I have a dual boot system, and am using both Win98 SE and Windows 2000, both of which are installed on my first hard drive. This has worked well for me for several years, and I have no trouble reading many USB devices with either OS. But I have had a USB 2.0 Western Digital external hard drive for a couple of years, that is only recognizable under Win 2000. Just recently I bought another external hard drive, this one is by Seagate and naturally it is USB 2.0. It also seems to not be recognizable by Win98 SE, yet is by Win 2000. The odd thing here is this mother board has several USB 2.0 ports on it, and both these drives are plugged into these ports. So - logic tells me it cannot be the mother board, but MUST be the OS and/or the lack of correct drivers for the Win 98 SE, but I've been unable to locate the needed drivers for either hard drive. But to give more information on this particular computer, which was an upgrage that I assembled in January of this year, using a Biostar P4M80-M4 motherboard and an Intel Celeron 2.66 MHz cpu. It has a VIA chipset and a VIA VT 82CX86 USB Controller, Vers. 1.00 with speed of 48 MHz, on this motherboard. I was provided with a CD with this motherboard, and let both OS's collect what they felt needed from it, when setting it up. I've read dozens and dozens of posts on this particular subject in this and other NGs, but still do not have any idea what drivers are missing or perhaps just need updating. Can anyone help me here? Thanks in advance. Olin McDaniel The Maximus Decim NUSB driver set includes generic support for USB 2.0 and USB storage devices: http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43605 VIA USB Tips, Tricks and Troubleshooting: http://www.usbman.com/Guides/VIA%20T...d%20Tricks.htm - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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