Windows ME won't recognize slave drive

[Mint]

I installed a second 8 Gb drive into a HP Pavillion that has Windows
ME.
Primary drive is 60 Gb and Fat32.

Windows doesn't see the second drive. I tried both cable select and
slave.

The second drive may have XP on it.

Any ideas what I can do next?

Thanks.

 

[Paul Randall]

I installed a second 8 Gb drive into a HP Pavillion that has Windows
ME.
Primary drive is 60 Gb and Fat32.

Windows doesn't see the second drive. I tried both cable select and
slave.

The second drive may have XP on it.

Any ideas what I can do next?

Thanks.

Lets see if I'm understanding what you want. Wait -- you didn't give enough
info. What are you trying to achieve? Boot from the 60GB drive and just
use the 8GB drive for storage? Boot into WXP from the 8GB drive? If the
8GB's XP was not installed while the drive was connected to this
motherboard, the computer will probably not run properly when booted from
that drive. Do you want to be able to dual boot, sometimes choosing WXP and
other times choosing ME? If you go into BIOS setup while booting, do both
drives show up?

-Paul Randall

 

[HeyBub]

I installed a second 8 Gb drive into a HP Pavillion that has Windows
ME.
Primary drive is 60 Gb and Fat32.

Windows doesn't see the second drive. I tried both cable select and
slave.

The second drive may have XP on it.

Any ideas what I can do next?

The drive with XP is probably formatted NTFS. WinME can't read NTFS volumes.
In fact, FDISK can't even detect an NTFS volume.

 

[The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly]

The drive with XP is probably formatted NTFS. WinME can't read NTFS volumes.
In fact, FDISK can't even detect an NTFS volume.

fdisk on a win98 boot disk can, it detects it as a non-fat partition.

 

[Ben Myers]

I installed a second 8 Gb drive into a HP Pavillion that has Windows
ME.
Primary drive is 60 Gb and Fat32.
Windows doesn't see the second drive. I tried both cable select and
slave.
The second drive may have XP on it.
Any ideas what I can do next?

If the second drive is formatted NTFS, you'll have to reformat it or install
a newer version of Windows to use it. Please be advised that reformatting
a drive erases everything on it.

Ben

 

[Anteaus]

Don't be tempted to experiment with jumper settings. Make sure they are
correct. If you inadvertently set both drives as the same unit, a write to
one will over-write the data on the other as well.

If you need to get the data from the 8GB, ntfsdos will do this. Otherwise,
simpler to (wipe and) reformat as FAT32.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/NTFSDOS-Professional.shtml

 

[luke7]

Lets see if I'm understanding what you want. Wait -- you didn't give enough
info. What are you trying to achieve? Boot from the 60GB drive and just
use the 8GB drive for storage? Boot into WXP from the 8GB drive? If the
8GB's XP was not installed while the drive was connected to this
motherboard, the computer will probably not run properly when booted from
that drive. Do you want to be able to dual boot, sometimes choosing WXP and
other times choosing ME? If you go into BIOS setup while booting, do both
drives show up?

-Paul Randall


.

 

[luke7]

Don't be tempted to experiment with jumper settings. Make sure they are
correct. If you inadvertently set both drives as the same unit, a write to
one will over-write the data on the other as well.

If you need to get the data from the 8GB, ntfsdos will do this. Otherwise,
simpler to (wipe and) reformat as FAT32.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/NTFSDOS-Professional.shtml

Thanks, I will take the drive to my XP computer and format it as FAT32.

Andy