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April 20th 07, 02:32 PM
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Unable to Format New Drive
I just installed a New Drive in my '98 machine, I can't find the way to
format it. Win98 doesn't see it. It's a SCSI Drive, Home Built Machine. Maybe I'm just going bonkers or something, But I just can't seem to figure this out. Any Help? 
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April 20th 07, 03:27 PM
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Unable to Format New Drive
fdisk ?
before format you have to fdisk the drive so windows knows its there -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://www.safer-networking.org AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/ Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "HR57" wrote in message ... I just installed a New Drive in my '98 machine, I can't find the way to format it. Win98 doesn't see it. It's a SCSI Drive, Home Built Machine. Maybe I'm just going bonkers or something, But I just can't seem to figure this out. Any Help?
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April 20th 07, 08:02 PM
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Unable to Format New Drive
I knew it would be simple. But do I use fdisk in DOS or the DOS Command Prompt.
"AlmostBob" wrote: fdisk ? before format you have to fdisk the drive so windows knows its there -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://www.safer-networking.org AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/ Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "HR57" wrote in message ... I just installed a New Drive in my '98 machine, I can't find the way to format it. Win98 doesn't see it. It's a SCSI Drive, Home Built Machine. Maybe I'm just going bonkers or something, But I just can't seem to figure this out. Any Help?
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April 20th 07, 08:20 PM
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Unable to Format New Drive
I tried fdisk from Run in the start menu. It saw my C
 rive but didn't see any other drive. Do I need to use my 98 boot disk, Or try fdisk from DOS? "HR57" wrote: I knew it would be simple. But do I use fdisk in DOS or the DOS Command Prompt. "AlmostBob" wrote: fdisk ? before format you have to fdisk the drive so windows knows its there -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://www.safer-networking.org AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/ Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "HR57" wrote in message ... I just installed a New Drive in my '98 machine, I can't find the way to format it. Win98 doesn't see it. It's a SCSI Drive, Home Built Machine. Maybe I'm just going bonkers or something, But I just can't seem to figure this out. Any Help?
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April 20th 07, 08:38 PM
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Unable to Format New Drive
Use the Bootdisk.
-- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "HR57" wrote in message ... I tried fdisk from Run in the start menu. It saw my C rive but didn't seeany other drive. Do I need to use my 98 boot disk, Or try fdisk from DOS? "HR57" wrote: I knew it would be simple. But do I use fdisk in DOS or the DOS Command Prompt. "AlmostBob" wrote: fdisk ? before format you have to fdisk the drive so windows knows its there -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://www.safer-networking.org AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/ Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "HR57" wrote in message ... I just installed a New Drive in my '98 machine, I can't find the way to format it. Win98 doesn't see it. It's a SCSI Drive, Home Built Machine. Maybe I'm just going bonkers or something, But I just can't seem to figure this out. Any Help?
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April 20th 07, 08:47 PM
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Unable to Format New Drive
"HR57" wrote in message
... I tried fdisk from Run in the start menu. It saw my C rive but didn't seeany other drive. Do I need to use my 98 boot disk, Or try fdisk from DOS? From a DOS boot (via floppy) run FDISK 1. Select the other drive i.e. not the one with C: (If FDISK does not see your second hard drive, check it is correctly jumpered and connected. On reboot the BIOS should display the existence and size of all hard drives.) 2. Select partition drive size you want 3. Select partition type: extended DOS, assuming you already have C: which must be Primary DOS. 4. Then make your "logical" drives (identified by letter) within this ext DOS partition. Tick to accept large-sized drives, long filenames. 5. Reboot to enact all these changes i.e. write to the new hard drive. 6. Then each logical drive must be FORMATted before Windows (or DOS) can use it. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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April 20th 07, 10:11 PM
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Unable to Format New Drive
Do you already have a SCSI drive working in this machine, or is this the
only SCSI drive installed? If you haven't had SCSI working before you need to follow the procedures set out in the instructions for the SCSI controller, which may involve configuring the SCSI BIOS, or it may involve creating a special boot floppy. If this is a second SCSI drive, then have you checked that it is visible using the controller BIOS configuration utility? -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "HR57" wrote in message ... I tried fdisk from Run in the start menu. It saw my C rive but didn't seeany other drive. Do I need to use my 98 boot disk, Or try fdisk from DOS? "HR57" wrote: I knew it would be simple. But do I use fdisk in DOS or the DOS Command Prompt. "AlmostBob" wrote: fdisk ? before format you have to fdisk the drive so windows knows its there -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://www.safer-networking.org AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/ Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "HR57" wrote in message ... I just installed a New Drive in my '98 machine, I can't find the way to format it. Win98 doesn't see it. It's a SCSI Drive, Home Built Machine. Maybe I'm just going bonkers or something, But I just can't seem to figure this out. Any Help?
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#8
April 22nd 07, 05:06 AM
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Unable to Format New Drive
If fdisk can't see the drive, there's problem.
How the PC connects to the hard drive is the cut to the solution, the scsi card. -- Dave Apathy and denial are close cousins "HR57" wrote in message ... I tried fdisk from Run in the start menu. It saw my C rive but didn't seeany other drive. Do I need to use my 98 boot disk, Or try fdisk from DOS? "HR57" wrote: I knew it would be simple. But do I use fdisk in DOS or the DOS Command Prompt. "AlmostBob" wrote: fdisk ? before format you have to fdisk the drive so windows knows its there -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://www.safer-networking.org AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/ Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "HR57" wrote in message ... I just installed a New Drive in my '98 machine, I can't find the way to format it. Win98 doesn't see it. It's a SCSI Drive, Home Built Machine. Maybe I'm just going bonkers or something, But I just can't seem to figure this out. Any Help?
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