Win98 and exterrnal drive

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Dave

Hi I have recently bought an external usb2 hard drive which is NTFS
formatted. In order to use in Windows 98 it requires a driver install
from CD which is fine.

My question is this - if I am working with a computer that won't boot
into win98 and therefore I need to boot it into safe mode, how can I
get the external hard rive to be recognised if I cannot install the
driver from the CD Rom/DVD as they do not work in safe mode?

Hope I have explained myself properly and thanks for your help

David
 
Dave said:
Hi I have recently bought an external usb2 hard drive which is NTFS
formatted. In order to use in Windows 98 it requires a driver install
from CD which is fine.

My question is this - if I am working with a computer that won't boot
into win98 and therefore I need to boot it into safe mode, how can I
get the external hard rive to be recognised if I cannot install the
driver from the CD Rom/DVD as they do not work in safe mode?

Hope I have explained myself properly and thanks for your help

David
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Win98 doesn't recognize NTFS.
 
I thought that might be the case - thanks for confirming though -
Better if I format the hard drive as FAT32 then do you think ?

Cheers


David
 
Thanks for the reply - however when I go into XP and delete the
original partition and the create a new partition it will not let me
choose FAT32 as a file system.

The external drive is curently split into 4 primary partitions O, P, Q
and R - do I need to delete all of the parititons first then format as
FAT32 or can I do them individually

Any help appreciated


David
 
Dave said:
Thanks for the reply - however when I go into XP and delete the
original partition and the create a new partition it will not let me
choose FAT32 as a file system.

The external drive is curently split into 4 primary partitions O, P, Q
and R - do I need to delete all of the parititons first then format as
FAT32 or can I do them individually

Any help appreciated
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Sorry, I have no experience with external drives, just swapping internal
drives between PCs running XP and 98. I don't know why XP won't format the
partitions FAT32.

I hope someone else can help you. Can you format the drive on a 98 machine?
 
Thanks for the reply misfit. It seems that Xp won't recognise the FAT
32 option on large drives (ie greater than 32GB i think
0.

I just formatted it using Acronis Partition Expert and it seems to be
okay now

thansk again

David
 
Dave said:
Thanks for the reply misfit. It seems that Xp won't recognise the
FAT 32 option on large drives (ie greater than 32GB i think

I just formatted it using Acronis Partition Expert and it seems
to be okay now
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Don't top-post. Do snip.

You can't format drives, only partitions on drives. So make the
partitions under 32 GB each. The sequence is - clean off
parittioning, partition, format each partition, use.
 
Not sure what don't top post do snip means - enlighten me please

And thanks for your reply

Cheers


David
 
Top posting is what this reply is; it's at the top of the message you're
replying to. Usenet purists get all bent out of shape if you do that. And
they may have a point. But sometimes a top post gets right to the point
without having to scroll down to the bottom. Except for this top post, I
usually bottom post.

Snip means (I think) cutting out the extraneous crap that doesn't really
apply to your response. It keeps replies from being super long especially
when it's like the tenth replay or so.

Bearman
 
Top posting is what this reply is; it's at the top of the message you're
replying to. Usenet purists get all bent out of shape if you do that. And
they may have a point. But sometimes a top post gets right to the point
without having to scroll down to the bottom. Except for this top post, I
usually bottom post.

Snip means (I think) cutting out the extraneous crap that doesn't really
apply to your response. It keeps replies from being super long especially
when it's like the tenth replay or so.

Bearman
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Thanks I have learned something today

Cheers

David
 
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