2nd Hard Drive Problem

Hi all, I have a machine with Win XP and a 60 gb hard drive, I used Partition
Magic and installed Win 98se on a different partition and everything went
great, both o/s work fine. I had a second 60 gb hard drive that I unplugged
before creating the partition, I shut down computer, plugged 2nd drive in. I
booted 1st to win xp. The second drive showed up as it should. I then booted
to the 98 partition, opened up "My Computer" and it shows "Win98 (C then
(D then (E and F & G being my cd/rw and dvd/rw. Neither D or E are
accessible, a dialog box pops up saying D:\ is not accessible. A device
attached to the system is not functioning, also does the same thing for E
although E should not even be there. Any thoughts would be greatly
appreciated.

Check the detail of the partitioning on the new drive, as odd partition
types can confuse W98. PM should be able to provide exact details of the
partitions.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Jeff S" wrote in message
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Hi all, I have a machine with Win XP and a 60 gb hard drive, I used
Partition
Magic and installed Win 98se on a different partition and everything went
great, both o/s work fine. I had a second 60 gb hard drive that I
unplugged
before creating the partition, I shut down computer, plugged 2nd drive in.
I
booted 1st to win xp. The second drive showed up as it should. I then
booted
to the 98 partition, opened up "My Computer" and it shows "Win98 (C then
(D then (E and F & G being my cd/rw and dvd/rw. Neither D or E are
accessible, a dialog box pops up saying D:\ is not accessible. A device
attached to the system is not functioning, also does the same thing for E
although E should not even be there. Any thoughts would be greatly
appreciated.

I found that the 2nd drive was NTFS, I converted it to FAT32, all is good
now. Thanks

"Jeff Richards" wrote:

Check the detail of the partitioning on the new drive, as odd partition
types can confuse W98. PM should be able to provide exact details of the
partitions.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Jeff S" wrote in message
...
Hi all, I have a machine with Win XP and a 60 gb hard drive, I used
Partition
Magic and installed Win 98se on a different partition and everything went
great, both o/s work fine. I had a second 60 gb hard drive that I
unplugged
before creating the partition, I shut down computer, plugged 2nd drive in.
I
booted 1st to win xp. The second drive showed up as it should. I then
booted
to the 98 partition, opened up "My Computer" and it shows "Win98 (C then
(D then (E and F & G being my cd/rw and dvd/rw. Neither D or E are
accessible, a dialog box pops up saying D:\ is not accessible. A device
attached to the system is not functioning, also does the same thing for E
although E should not even be there. Any thoughts would be greatly
appreciated.