still no drive letter in XP

[backalley]

found disk manager, see the volume, but options are
greyed out for all but "delete partition". disk manager
shows disk as "basic" and (healthy) status
I was trying to keep the original win98 configuration
intact in case i had to revert back(just plug back in the
old setup) for a few weeks. It looks like my only choice
now is to create a dynamic disk so i can read the thing.

what do you think?

thanks in advance,
rob

-----Original Message-----
Hi, Backalley.

Looks like you haven't yet found Disk Management. This is the utility built
into Win2K and WinXP that replaces good old FDISK and Format.exe that we
used in MS-DOS days. It also takes over the drive letter assignment duties
from Device Manager. A quick way to open Disk Management is to type at the
Run prompt: diskmgmt.msc

Disk Management is a very capable program and it includes a very helpful
Help file. You mostly likely need to assign a drive letter to the volume on
that 20 GB drive. Windows Explorer can't see a volume until it has a
"drive" letter assigned. You may need to "mount" or "initialize" the
"foreign disk" in WinXP; search for those terms under Disk Management in the
Help file.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP




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[AgedTramp]

again... windows xp is 32 or 64 bit... win98 is 16 bit so xp can't see it

 

[Richard Urban]

Creating a dynamic disk is a one way street. If you want to go back,
everything is gone.

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Regards

Richard Urban
aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

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[Len]

There is a very good chance that a disk overlay program was used on your
Win98 HD. This was an all to common practice during that era. If this is
the case and the overlay (something like EZBios, MaxBlast, etc) can be
removed this should do the trick.

However, some overlay SW can not be removed and XP will not properly read
the drive with it active. In that circumstance the only thing I know of is
to boot to the older drive and copy/burn your data files to a seperate HD or
CD.

FWIW,
Len