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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Disks / File System / January 2004FAT32 drive not accessed
I am running W98 (upgrade from W95)with two disk drives on a PIII-500 with 512 MB RAM 5 GB master - partitioned in three equal partitions (C is the boot drive, D & E are extra drives) 80 GB slave with one partition, holds all Windows applications, as well as personal and financial information, documents and pictures I converted the slave drive to FAT32 some time ago and everything ran well. Then the other day my master drive went kaput and I installed another 5 GB drive that I had and partitioned it the same as the previous one and reinstalled W98. Now I find that W98 cannot access the 80 GB slave drive anymore, can't even find a drive letter for it. The BIOS setup says it is there. Seagate Disk Wizard says it is there. Ran a diagnostic on the 80 GB slave disk (Seagate disk) with the Disk Wizard and everything was normal, no errors or anything. I am not getting any disk drive failure indications. W98 Device Manager says it is there and working properly, but has no drive letter assigned to it.I added "lastdrive=x" to the config.sys but it was no help. The 5GB master disk works fine on all three partitions. Why won't W98 list the drive or access it anymore? Is it because that when I converted the slave disk to FAT 32 a file was placed on the boot disk which I lost when I lost the boot disk? I don't really want to repartition the slave disk because I don't want to lose all of the financial and personal information (don't care about the applications, I can always reinstall them). Is there any method in W98 that will allow access to the 80 GB slave disk? Is there any type of disk utility that will allow me to at least transfer the personal and financial files? Anybody got any ideas? > I am running W98 (upgrade from W95)with two disk drives on > a PIII-500 with 512 MB RAM [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > Anybody got any ideas? Check all your jumper setting carefully some drives have one position for master with *no* slave drive and a different jumper for master *with* slave >-----Original Message----- > [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > >and a different jumper for master *with* slave Jumpers have not been changed amd the drive was ok before I had to reformat master disk and reinstall W98. >. > Jumpers have not been changed amd the drive was ok before > I had to reformat master disk and reinstall W98. you said that you used a *different* drive! If your BIOS does not support very large hard disks then you may have been using hard drive overlay software such as EZ-BIOS or MaxBlast to allow access to the 80Gb drive. When you installed the new primary drive you did not also install the drive overlay software, so the system no longer recognises the special partitioning on the 80Gb drive that this software creates. You need to re-create the primary drive with the correct software. It will not affect access to the new primary drive, but it will allow access to the secondary drive. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > I am running W98 (upgrade from W95)with two disk drives on > a PIII-500 with 512 MB RAM [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > Anybody got any ideas? |
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