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re: Hard drive shows in BIOS but not in Windows
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Don
(244 messages posted)
Hi Malcolm,
If the win 2000 partition is NTFS, that would explain why win 98 cannot "see it".
Don
On Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 2:55 pm, Malcolm Fowler wrote:
>I have just replaced the M/B in my son's computer and reinstalled two original 80GB
>hard drives and the DVD burner. Primary hard drive (which has two partitions
C
>& D) is set as Master and the DVD set as Slave on IDE 1 The second hard drive, a
>single partition previously known as F is set as Master on IDE2 Previously the
>PC was set up to dual boot between Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 Pro The correct
>drive info shows in BIOS - all hardware is present. When th machine is booted
and
>the 98 option chosen all is well and the boot proceeds successfully - however in
>Explorer Drive F (the drive on IDE2) cannot be "seen". If you try to boot into
>Win 2000 you get a blue screen telling you that there is a disk configuration problem
>- which I assume is because after attempting to boot into 2000 the PC cannot "find"
>drive F where the operating system is. Any ideas on how to render drive F "visible"
>to Windows would be appreciated... Machine spec is Asus P4P800-E motherboard,
Intel
>P4 2.8GHz HT processor, 1GB DDR2 memory in dual channel mode, Radeon 9600 128MB
graphics
>card and 2 x 80GB IDE hard drives.
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