Re: Installing used hard drive without formatting

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From: Colin T (aka VK2TRC)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 06:46

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For a start U don't tell us what the "Other Machine" is. It could be that
the hard drive was formatted as NTFS or as a Linux Partition, or OS2... who
knows?

Make it easy on yourself. Get the 98 boot disk, bootup the PC, and run
fdisk. Then U will know what the hard disk is partitioned as.

Keep in mind that Win98 can only see Fat and Fat32 partitions.

Good luck

Col


"case" <case.sinclair@imvs.sa.gov.au> wrote in message
news:3ce0549d$1@duster.adelaide.on.net...
> Hello all,
>  I am having difficulty installing a second hard drive into my Win98 SE PC
> that was
> used in another machine.
> I installed the drive using a 5.5 inch bay removable rack  that I bought
so
> it could be easily removed.
>  I installed the drive and windows seemed to recognise it and asked me to
> reboot due to configuration of new hardware, however now when booted it
> doesn't show up as part of the system in My computer.
>
> Do I need to use bios settings to let the system know what I have
installed,
> or should it have automatically detect it?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, as there are many pages dealing
with
> installing and formatting a drive, but apparently none dealing with
> installing without formatting on the web.
>
> hope someone can help.
>
> thanks
> Case
>
>
>
>

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