Hard Drive question

[cs]

Okay I'm adding another hard drive to my home system. Now I've done this pleanty of times and I understand about setting the master to master and the secondary to slave. Did this and still no go. Both hard drives are out of dell systems. The hard drive in my current system was set to CS (cable select). I changed it to master and still no go.

Any solutions?

Chad

[Bruce Hooke]

I was just doing a doubletake and realizing that FAT32 should be supported by almost any viable Windows operating system other than NT4 when I came back and saw High C's comment about it possibly being some version of Windows 95. Even later releases of Windows 95 should support FAT32, but who knows what a "stripped version" will and won't do! This is what you get for following your own path! tongue.gif :D

Your easist solution may well be to get your hands on a Windows 98 boot disk and use fdisk. For that matter I expect fdisk was also on the Windows 95 boot disks...

[High C]

Bruce, there's something wacky going on with the forum. :eek:

My post about the stripped Win95 was in response to another thread from Victor, something about deleting a FAT32 partition.

Forum confusion! :eek:

[High C]

Yeah, try fdisk, or EZ Drive.

[cs]

Seems we have a cross post here.

Chad

[Victor]

Why thank you High, you're absolutely right. I did use FDisk, but although it saw this partition it failed to remove it. Although my OS is ancient it's just now getting to the point where some things won't work, because the apps didn't even exist then. I'll upgrade to 2000 soon, but not before I have to. Anyone who knows anything about PCs can get a good one for basically nothing these days, unless they believe what they see on TV. 99% of the time an upgrade is necessary for the same reason a car has to upgraded after 5 years: because this is America and hey, what would people say?

[ 02-27-2005, 11:18 PM: Message edited by: Victor ]

[Victor]

I posted this on the other thread, and it showed up here. Another reason to use old software. The techies are busy in the back room right now, no doubt. By the time they get it to working right it'll be junk, and you guys can run out and get the new stuff.

[Victor]

There's 900 megs of dead space on that drive. Not FAT 32, maybe Linux, who knows? Nothing I've used so far can access it. Oh well, it may not work but it sure was cheap!

[George Roberts]

You have to use FDisk or equivalent before the operating system will see the hard drive.