Well to answer my own question, you just run the Disk Wizard software - you know, the one on the CD that came with the drive http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif

Now all i need to do is change the new drive letter to a G: so that my other Zip, DVD and CD-RW are back to the letters that they were. It's easy on Windows 2000, but howz it work on 98?

mb

Boomer,

go to control panel then system, if you click on the individual drives, you used to be able to force it to use a caertain letter if I remember correctly, think you set a lower and upper limit

maybe talking FORD though http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif

robski

Bit embarrassed asking this, as i really should know but...

Just added a new hard drive to my PC - slave on primary IDE (boot disk on primary master). I can see the drive from the BIOS (40GB Seagate) but _what_ do i have to do to let Windows 98 see it?

Tried "Add New Hardware", but it saw nuffink.

mb

robski,

the letters are greyed-out in ControlPanel.System http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/frown.gif

Windows 2000 is easy, but i think that 98 is still a little "backward"!

So much to learn - like you can't backup a 20GB disk into a single file on your 40GB disk - 'cos the max is 4GB.

Oh well, at least i now have loads of room to play with,

cheers,

mb

You CAN'T change drive letters in Win98 of fixed disks.
You can change the letters of removable drives Eg CD-ROM, Zip etc by going to device manager - Select the CDROM or Zip, click properties then set the Start Letter and End Letter - set them both the same i.e Z for Zip and at next reboot Zip will move to Z.

Under NT you can individually set letters for ALL drives.

Oh, never tried in with a fixed.

Are you saying your drives are not working then?

With most I would guess a re-install of the software may fix it.

Ive never had a problem, although it can be fun when you start having logical partitions as they can change letters between DOS mode and Windoze

robski

Dr Hu,

yup, it seems that W98 forces your hard drives to come first regardless, but you can then play around with removeable drives and letters to your heart's content.

robski,

aye, it is all working now (existing 20GB hard drive and new 40GB for "fast backups"). I think that all the Seagate Disk Wizard does is an FDISK, so that W98 can then see a partition. Thats the problem with all the GUI/Point-and-Click stuff - it gets harder to understand what is really going on underneath. When the DOS generation eventually dies out - we are all doomed to be slaves of Microsoft http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif

mb

if u configure the new hard disk as a removeable drive (to take advantage of win98 allow you to select a drive letter for a removeable disk) then u will find a limit in size to a fixed disk (something like 4gb or so - bit of a pain if you have just splashed out on a 40gb disk!!)

Maybe i could do a lot of partitioning and configure it as TEN 4GB removeable drives - heyhey!

mb