2nd hard drive

[Handy1]

I'm running W98 on an old Gateway 333mz machine. I recently got my hands on a used 4 gb Hdrive and thought I'd add it to my setup. It went in fine. I set the system config to match the new slave drive but when I boot it seems to see the drive but it's not assigning it a drive leter. The new (old) drive has Linux red hat installed and so I'll have to reformat but first I need access.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Hank

 

[edfair]

It will only see a windows compatible partition. So you need to run fdisk to delete the RH partition and create a windows partition. Once you have the partition it will show up on the next boot.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Handy1]

Thanks Ed, but how do I tell it to fdisk the drive if it has no address?
Hank

 

[edfair]

Fdisk deals with the hardware, not the partitions. It will see the 2 drives and allow you to access the 2nd one with a menu choice.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[comtec17]

Boot the machine up using the Win98 boot disk, and when it finishes loading the floppy then type "fdisk" at the prompt. It will show you a list of disks to partition, make sure you pick the right one.

 

[edfair]

If it finds 2 hard drives, the first choice will be the fdisk options on drive0 with a 5th option for changing drives, then the change drive option will give you the choice of drives.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[satrow]

Handy1, it's safer to pull your existing drive before modifying partitions!

You may find that Win98 Fdisk does not like dealing with 'foreign' partitons and boot sectors, if this is the case, try an alternative partitioning tool, such as Gdisk (Symantec - part of Ghost) or Aedisk.

Andy.