Problems with HDD

[gil11542]

Hey I am having so trouble here and dont know if it is what I am trying to do or if it is my Hardware or setting so I need to know if this should work and I think it should but maybe I am wrong.

I had a HDD hooked up as a slave on a win2000 system, I backed up a bunch of stuff on it and then put it in a win98SE system as a slave but it did show, It shows listed on boot up but when I try to access the drive from MY COMPUTER I see no drive. I formatted and loaded win98SE and win2000 daul boot on the primary drive and then again plugged up this drive as a secondary and still the same. isnt this suppose to work or is there something I need to do. If I put it back in the win2000 system that it originally came from it works fine but I need it in another system right now. hopefully someone can help.🙂

 

[KIAman]

Only thing i can think of is your file system. Win98 only can use the FAT types specifically FAT32, while win2k can use both FAT32 or NTFS. Most likely when you had the HD in yer win2k machine, you formated the HD with NTFS, which win98 will not be able to use at all. If this is the case, I don't know how to go about changing your partition from NTFS to FAT32 without any adverse effects. Good luck. Maybe someone else will be more enlightened than me.

 

[gil11542]

Yea I just came back to edit this, I am pretty sure That I used FAT32 for both but am not sure. I still have the original computer up and running does anyone know how to tell, Maybe the best thing for me to do is just hook it back up in the original system and tranfer stuff to another drive. I swap these file between other 98SE systems so I am pretty sure it is fat 32 not NTSF. I cant figure it out though and the data is to valuable to be F**ckin around with it , it is my only backup.