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April 14th 10, 03:07 AM
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Windows ME won't recognize slave drive
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. 
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April 14th 10, 03:43 AM
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Windows ME won't recognize slave drive
"Mint" wrote in message ... 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
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April 14th 10, 02:55 PM
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Windows ME won't recognize slave drive
Mint wrote:
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.
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April 14th 10, 04:33 PM
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Windows ME won't recognize slave drive
On 4/14/2010 8:55 AM, HeyBub wrote:
Mint wrote: 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. fdisk on a win98 boot disk can, it detects it as a non-fat partition.
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April 14th 10, 05:02 PM
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Windows ME won't recognize slave drive
"Mint" wrote in message
... 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
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April 15th 10, 08:14 AM
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Windows ME won't recognize slave drive
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/...essional.shtml "Mint" wrote: 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. .
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April 15th 10, 03:07 PM
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Windows ME won't recognize slave drive
"Paul Randall" wrote: "Mint" wrote in message ... 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 .
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April 15th 10, 03:10 PM
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Windows ME won't recognize slave drive
"Anteaus" wrote: 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/...essional.shtml "Mint" wrote: 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. . Thanks, I will take the drive to my XP computer and format it as FAT32. Andy
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