I added an XP-based 40 GB harddrive to my Windows 98 system. Win 98 recognised the system as existing, however, in Device Manager under Disk Drives, the XP drive is not given a "drive letter assignment". Hence, I cannot access the drive in My Computer!
Does anybody know what's going on??
Thanks!!
2006-11-05 17:01:01 · 3 answers · asked by Japandra 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
XP uses the NTFS file system, which 98 won't recognize.
Click Start -> Run and type command. At the command prompt, type fdisk
Select the drive that you want and delete the partition, will show up as a non-dos partition.
Recreate the partition, but this time format it as Fat32. Reboot, windows will pick it up as a drive and assign it a letter.
This will erase any data thats on it though.
2006-11-05 17:29:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you add it yourself? I had one installed on my computer and my secondary drive is my E drive, I took it to a computer store and had it added. Check your computer by going to help and support, they might be able to help you. Good Luck!!
2006-11-06 01:31:36 · answer #2 · answered by KuTeNezz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask a Professional!!!!
2006-11-06 01:08:11 · answer #3 · answered by ?????? ? 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋