Hard drive shows up in DOS but not in Windows XP Pro SP1.....what's up???

[ferrarifreak93]

I have this old hard drive, a Samsung WU32543A that is accessible when I boot off a Win98 boot disk but the hard drive doesn't show up in My COmputer. I'm using WIndows XP Pro SP1. The drive is FAT formatted. I've tried hooking it up as a master on the secondary channel and even tried setting the jumper to master and cable select. Nothing works. Any ideas??? I don't understand why DOS would recognize the drive and not Windows.

 

[Jesta]

Did you look in Disk Management to see if it shows up there? If so you may be able to make it accesible in XP.

 

[Winchester]

Right click on My Computer - > Manage -> Disk Management -> Right click on your drive, make sure it is set as "active",

 

[ferrarifreak93]

the drive does not show up in disk management. I know it's there b/c the bios and DOS detect it, just not Windows.

 

[BFG10K]

Does Samsung have a utility for formatting their drives? Also there might be a new version of firmware/BIOS for it so it might pay to check their site anyway.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Does Samsung have a utility for formatting their drives? Also there might be a new version of firmware/BIOS for it so it might pay to check their site anyway.

Samsung requires you to give a serial number from a Samsung drive to get their utility(Diskette Creator by Ontrack..never was able to get it to unpack and make diskette tho :disgust: )

 

[ferrarifreak93]

I just plugged the drive into a computer with Windows 98 and it worked fine. this is BIZZARE

 

[Crizz]

does it have GoBack installed on it? If so, disable it

 

[ferrarifreak93]

Originally posted by: Crizz
does it have GoBack installed on it? If so, disable it

If you mean Symantec/Roxio's GoBack software, no it doesn't

 

[NuTechNot]

Answer to an old question....
maybe the same issue as a hdd installed in system running 98 (Fat format) not being regonized because the
2nd hdd is NTSF format..... if Fat can't read NTSF...>>>then would it be reasonable that NTSF can't read Fat...
You're running XP=NTSF....old drive...sounds obvious...Fat formatted.

 

[GoSharks]

Originally posted by: NuTechNot
Answer to an old question....
maybe the same issue as a hdd installed in system running 98 (Fat format) not being regonized because the
2nd hdd is NTSF format..... if Fat can't read NTSF...>>>then would it be reasonable that NTSF can't read Fat...
You're running XP=NTSF....old drive...sounds obvious...Fat formatted.

incorrect. the file system of the system drive has NOTHING to do with the reading of another filesystem type. win9x/dos couldnt read ntfs becuase it doesnt support it, simple as that. win2k for example can use both fat and ntfs syste,s

 

[Moonbeam]

Did you try using the 98 start up disk to delete the partition and create a new one with a fresh format. Maybe it will see it then.