Access to USB Attached HD
AAH
WinMe OS
I am trying to format/fdisk a hd attached through the USB port.
How can I do it? I am finding difficult to
have access to it. The hd is in an enclouser.
Is the Jumper be at master or slave?
Please help?
Mike M
Is the disk assigned a letter in Explorer? You need to run fdisk from a
command prompt window. Once you have used fdisk to create a partition on
the drive you should be able to see the drive in Explorer and format the
drive by right clicking on the drive letter and selecting Format.
> Is the Jumper be at master or slave?
All the examples I've seen have required the drive to be jumpered as Master.
I hope all goes well.
--
Mike Maltby
mike....@gmail.com
Mart
Explorer but if I remember correctly (and its been a VERY long time since I
tried it), you need use the FDISK commands through a DOS prompt whilst
running WinMe to recognise and work on it. That will then allow you FDISK
and then format it.
At this stage (whilst connected to USB), the jumper setting is not relevant,
it only becomes significant when connected to an IDE controller.
The old (open) Western Digital Knowledge Base used to have a step-by-step
guide - id #1051
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=E*UlQR3h&p_lva=&p_faqid=1051
but sadly, you now need to register to gain access to their KB - assuming
that article is still there.
Mart
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AAH
Mike
It is very kind of you for your attention.
This is an second hand hd from a friend who is not very much familiar with
this business.
It is a NTFS format disk which winme would not show in explorer.
I ran Partition Magic 7 which has a command
to convert NTFS to Fat32/fat. I converted
one partition to Fat32 while doing the other
PM7 has picked up some error on that
partition and some how this partition has
become "UNALLOCATED"
I do not know how to allocate it. It appears
that part is not empty.
The HD particular are:-
Unallocated 7.8 mb Status none Pri
Extended 78,144.3 mb none Pri
Unallocated 39,142.7 mb none Logi
FAT32 39,001.5 mb none Logi
WinMe is allocating a letter G to the
Fat32 part which is nearly half of the
total, and not showing the "Unallocated"part
"Unallocated 39,142.7 mb none Logi"
"When I Fdisk from DOS Prompt it only
picks Hard Disk 1 and do not know to
force Fdisk to pickup Hard Disk 2? to
work o`n.
------------------------------------------------
FAT32 39,001.5 mb none Logi
This part was shown in My Computer
where I formated it by r/click command
and it caame along in explorer with other
drives.
"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
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AAH
&
Mart
Thanks for your respose. I have sorted it now.
Thanks once again for your attention.+
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Mart
You're welcome AHH, good to see you've got it sorted.
BTW - Thanks Mike, for the Vista .contact fix (mentioned elsewhere). Sorry
it was such a late phone call last night, but - as ever - it was good to
chat.
Mart
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Mike M
That's good news and well done. Sorry about my misleading post which
suggested you could format from Windows Explorer once the disk had been
partitioned when, as Mart rightly said, you need to run both FDSK and FORMAT
from a command prompt window.
--
Mike
Noel Paton
down the thread - but it bearssayoing again anyhow :) )
If you really need the data on the partition, then find one of the
converters, or copy the data to a FAT32 partition (using an NTFS-aware OS),
then FDISK and format the partition with ME
--
Noel Paton
CrashFixPC
Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"AAH" <a...@chakcomnet.net> wrote in message
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Jerry Martin
Would a utility such as the freeware Paragon NTFS for Win98 (supports W95,
98, & ME) be of any use to read the NTFS partition here?
(See: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-win98/ .)
Cheers,
Jerry
"Noel Paton" <noeldp(spamless)@crashfixpc.co.uk> wrote in message
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Noel Paton
I've not used it myself - it would give access to the files, but I'd be wary
of using it as a long-term solution.
One possible route to a solution would be to use BootItNG to reduce the
partition size to the minimum, and create a new FAT32 partition in the newly
available space, then use P-NTFS-98 to copy the data across from the NTFS
partition to the new partition(or simply copy the data to a new HD using
P-NTFS-98)
HTH?
--
Noel Paton
CrashFixPC
Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
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