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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Setup / January 2006External 250GB HD USB non Recognized as Drive on W98SE
I have a question regarding a Dell Dimension XPS T500. I am trying to > install an external hard drive which is a Maxtor 6 250GB drive mounted > in a Metal Gear USB 2.0 external drive box. The USB drivers came with > the drive unit and it recognizes the hardware but does not install the > drive as a Disk with a drive letter. The particulars of my system are > listed below. The bios is up to A11. Will this system be able to read > this 250GB drive? Is there a limitation on the size of the drive on > this machine? Is there something I can do to make it read the drive? > The drive does work on a newer Latitude 610 w/Win2000. Thanks! > Dell XPS T500 > WIN 98 SE > BIOS A11 > 128 MB RAM > 13.6GB IBM Internal HD > Original CD > DVD-RW > NEC USB 2.0 PCI > Firewire card Have you partitioned and formatted the drive?? until you do this, Windows won't be able to see it, or assign a drive letter  SignatureNoel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's >I have a question regarding a Dell Dimension XPS T500. I am trying to >> install an external hard drive which is a Maxtor 6 250GB drive mounted [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> NEC USB 2.0 PCI >> Firewire card If you partitioned and formatted from Win2K, then the chances are that you formatted it NTFS - in which case the partition(s) cannot be seen by any Win9x OS. Partition to FAT32 using any partition manager. SignatureNoel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's > Have you partitioned and formatted the drive?? > until you do this, Windows won't be able to see it, or assign a drive [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >>> NEC USB 2.0 PCI >>> Firewire card |
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