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Getting 98SE to work with external USB drive
I'm using 98SE on an old AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz, hard drive is formtted in FAT32
but i do have an external USB drive that is 200gig in size and formatted in NTFS, if i plug this into 98SE system will i be able to access it or will i have to apply some kind of patch? I used to have it working fine in old machinee that had XP Pro SP1 on it and that OS WAS in FAT32 format as well. Jim |
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Getting 98SE to work with external USB drive
windows 98se cannot access an ntfs drive
"Jim" wrote in message ... I'm using 98SE on an old AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz, hard drive is formtted in FAT32 but i do have an external USB drive that is 200gig in size and formatted in NTFS, if i plug this into 98SE system will i be able to access it or will i have to apply some kind of patch? I used to have it working fine in old machinee that had XP Pro SP1 on it and that OS WAS in FAT32 format as well. Jim |
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Getting 98SE to work with external USB drive
You will almost certainly need W98 drivers from the manufacturer of the
device. Windows 98 will not recognise a partition formatted as NTFS. If you can get Windows to see the device then you might be able to get access to the drive using this: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...Windows98.html -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Jim" wrote in message ... I'm using 98SE on an old AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz, hard drive is formtted in FAT32 but i do have an external USB drive that is 200gig in size and formatted in NTFS, if i plug this into 98SE system will i be able to access it or will i have to apply some kind of patch? I used to have it working fine in old machinee that had XP Pro SP1 on it and that OS WAS in FAT32 format as well. Jim |
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Getting 98SE to work with external USB drive
Thanks for reply Jeff, it's nothing fancy just a normal WD 200GB 3.5 hard
drive that sits in one of those external boxes, that connects to pc via USB2 or firewire (but i always use USB). I'll have a closer look at the link you supplied, many thanks. Jim "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... You will almost certainly need W98 drivers from the manufacturer of the device. Windows 98 will not recognise a partition formatted as NTFS. If you can get Windows to see the device then you might be able to get access to the drive using this: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...Windows98.html -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Jim" wrote in message ... I'm using 98SE on an old AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz, hard drive is formtted in FAT32 but i do have an external USB drive that is 200gig in size and formatted in NTFS, if i plug this into 98SE system will i be able to access it or will i have to apply some kind of patch? I used to have it working fine in old machinee that had XP Pro SP1 on it and that OS WAS in FAT32 format as well. Jim |
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