I am using win98SE.I am unable to use my portable harddrive.It is recogniging the drive but not showing capaci

Question

I am using win98SE.I had installed the USb drivers but i am unable to use the portable hard drive.Windows is recognizing the drive as removable drive but it is not showing the capacity of disk.When i double click the drive it gives a message disk is not formatted.I had transfered my files from winXP to the portable drive and able to use it in XP machine and I want to use it in my win98 comp also.Pl help.

Answer 1

Plug the drive back into your XP machine the right click on the Icon in Windows Explorer choose Properties and see if it is in NTFS format or in Fat32 format.

For Windows 98 to be able to see the drive it has to be in Fat32 format.

If it is in NTFS format you have either 2 options:

1) reformat it in Fat32 or
2)Find a little program called (ntfs98ro) which will allow you to read NTFS drives under Win98.

Answer 2

i have this problem too. It wont work, ive tried everything, what you can do is take the drive out of the prtable incasement and hook it up as a secondary drive in your 98 box