Has anyone had any success using 2 HD's with Win98? Does W98 support more than one?

I've had to downgrade from XP (which detected my second hard drive perfectly) but as soon as I got Win98 installed it stopped recognising my second hard drive.

With XP I saw:


Now with Win98 I see:

....and when I click D: it says a device attached to the system isn't functioning properly.

Is there anything I can install to get 2 drives working on Win98?

Here's what the device manager looks like if it helps:

Have you tried re creating your master boot records?


- wil

Yes but it didn't help. It is a clean install anyway so it isn't the boot records.

Clean installations of any OS doesn't neccessarily overwrite your MBR.

- wil

Either way it didn't fix it. Thanks for the idea anyway.

Hm. I know Windows 98 supports dual hard drives. It can support quite a few actually. Can't find anything on the Microsoft website. Have you looked in the computer manual?

- wil

maybe because you formatted your drives as NTFS in win XP and since win98 doesn't support NTFS...

Adrian

My primary hard drive was formatted before re-installing Win98 and is fat32, so is the secondary drive.

was the drive that doesn't show in Win 98 ever compressed?

I am running more than one drive now in Win 98, but before one drive I had would only show up in bios and not Windows because it was compressed and then I tried to delete the partition without decompressing it.
Lavon Russell
LookHard Mods
lavon@lh.links247.net

It looks like it has its own partition type.

Partition magic says:

55(HEX) EZ-DRIVE

....next to Partition Type. Whereas my original drive says Fat32

Looks like I need to reformat it, however it has stuff on the drive that I need so how do I get it :( ?

Um. Re-install WinXP. Why the un-install?

- wil

I've decided to install XP on a seperate parition and Win98 on another so I can have the best of both worlds.

BTW, for any XP users, I found a cool updates page (and also I didn't realise, but it shows you a different site at microsoft.com than when using Win98 - cool!)

Anyway here is the URL:

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp

Nuther cool XP site:

http://www.xp-erience.org/

OMG.....my new login screen on XP :) (not for the faint hearted)

http://www.xp-erience.org/...lectra/XPElectra.jpg

This is the best site ever....Im in heaven :)

Just installed an OSX theme.

Before anyone thinks Im crazy, Im just waiting for my dinner to cook :)

http://www.themexp.org/cat_login.php

Just out of interest, why do you feel the need to still have Win98 installed on your system? Surely and upgrade is there to replace prior versions?

- wil

Well one of several reasons is the fact that my scanner software and my copy of partition magic doesn't work with XP.

Hm. I thought they built these things backwards-compatible these days. Obviously not. You can't get upgrade drivers for your scanner?

- wil

>>my scanner software <<

Not the drivers.

Ah just found:

http://www.hp.com/...rt_doc/bps05230.html

There you go. It was hard to believe that such a big company didn't make an effort to support WinXP.

- wil