HD not being detected

Discussion in 'Software' started by ekhan, Mar 27, 2007.

  1. ekhan

    ekhan Corporal

    I have a WDC hard drive manufactured in 2005 its 40gigs but im running windows 98 se but its not reading it. I use to run windows 2000 and xp on the same system before and it was detecting the hard drive now its just windows 98 that doesn't show me it. Would i have to upgrade the driver for the IDE thing in the device manager?
     
    ekhan, Mar 27, 2007
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  2. ASUS

    ASUS MajorGeek

    This may be the problem
    W2K & XP can use Fat or NTFS file systems
    Windows 98 can only use Fat file systems

    Format the HDD to Fat32

    The HDD manufacture has free Utility to format your HDD
    Data lifeGuard tools
    http://majorgeeks.com/Western_Digital_Data_Lifeguard_Tools_d2855.html

    This Looks like newer version at WD's web more details of what it does
    http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?swid=1
     
    ASUS, Mar 27, 2007
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  3. ekhan

    ekhan Corporal

    Yeah it's already FAT32 i converted it in WinXP now when i setup win98se it doesn't read it.
     
    ekhan, Mar 28, 2007
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  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    May need to tell us how you did that as XP will convert Fat32 to NTFS, but it will not natively do it the other way around in converting NTFS to Fat32.

    Using the method ASUS posted will blank your HD read for reformatting to Fat32.
     
    DavidGP, Mar 28, 2007
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  5. ekhan

    ekhan Corporal

    I just got the HD it was empty but it was NTFS so i got partitionmagic and i converted it to FAT32. WinXP could still read the disk in NTFS and FAT32. I'm thinking that i need to get a driver for it... the model is WD400BB
     
    ekhan, Mar 28, 2007
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  6. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    HDs dont need drivers, its all down to the partitions and you will need to delete all partitions on that drive and rebuild them, then format to FAT32

    Get a WimME or Win98 Bootdisk and boot to floppy, then use Fdisk to delete the partiton and rebuild then format C:


    Bootdisk
    http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm


    Instructions on Fdisk
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867
     
    DavidGP, Mar 28, 2007
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  7. ekhan

    ekhan Corporal

    I've done that the hd is already FAT32. My bios doesn't detect it but winXP can and same with Win2000 but its just Win98SE that isn't detecting it.
     
    ekhan, Mar 28, 2007
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  8. ekhan

    ekhan Corporal

    Ok i got it to work now... There is a special setting for the jumpers if you have older OS's running or an older bios
     
    ekhan, Mar 29, 2007
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