Can't I do this?

[Bob B.]

I was operating under Windows 98 SE until yesterday. My
computer was

configured thusly: Primary Master- Seagate hard drive
("CHANCE") the

C:\; Primary Slave-a CDR; Secondary Master-a DVD/RW combo
and the

Secondary Slave-a Fujitsu hard drive in a removabile bay.
I bought WIN

XP and configured everything. The Fujitsu is a throw
away 3.49 GB

drive I put in to test. Today, Iswapped it out and
replaced it with a

Maxtor 40 GB drive. NOTE: I need the capability to swap
drives from my

removable drive bay. Even though the bios recognises the
Maxtor,

Windows doesn't. How can I correct this?

 

[purplehaz]

I swap removable drives everyday. You first have to install both drives, use
device manager put in the drive it doesn;t see then hit the scan for
hardware changes button, windows should see the new drive. Now windows has
the "info" drivers for both drives. Then all you need to do is swap the
drives, go into device manager, click the check for hardware changes button,
windows see the new drive, removes the old one and installs the new one. You
don't need to reboot, just use device manager to activate the new swappped
drive.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

The new drive has to be formatted before it can be used by Windows XP. In
Disk Manager, you can format it and assign it a driver letter.

Y.

 

[Bob B.]

OK. Now I'm confused. When I go to the devise manager,
I see the drive and it tells me it is working properly.
However, when I go to Start/ My Computer, I can't see
it. If I go to another computer in the network (each of
witch is running WIN 98)I, of course, can see the drive.
I just can't open and manipulate the drive on the WIN XP
machine.
There are 4 tabs in device manager/properties: General,
Policies, Volumes and Driver. The General tells me the
device is working properly.
The policies tab allows me to set write cashing opn the
disk.
The Volumes tab gives me info. on the drive????

And the Driver tab verifies I have the right driver on
the drive.

If I can see the drive while in the device manager,
What's up?

PS: I don't think I'm exceptionally stupid, but I just
can't "see" this.

 

[purplehaz]

Forget my computer, do you see the drive in windows explorer?