External drive for 98

[Slavko Vorkapitch]

HI - I just reinstalled the system image on my Compaq Presario (Win
98)- I was previously using XP Pro which was just too much for this
little baby... Problem now is my USB hub (2.0) appears to work fine -
when I turn on/off my external hard drive the little icon appears
(disappears)on the status bar but the drive never shows up in windows
explorer... Also get an invalid drive specification when I type f: in
a dos window... Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
El Squid

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[Elmo the Geek]

Slavko Vorkapitch wrote:
>
> HI - I just reinstalled the system image on my Compaq Presario (Win
> 98)- I was previously using XP Pro which was just too much for this
> little baby... Problem now is my USB hub (2.0) appears to work fine -
> when I turn on/off my external hard drive the little icon appears
> (disappears)on the status bar but the drive never shows up in windows
> explorer... Also get an invalid drive specification when I type f: in
> a dos window... Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> El Squid

You need Windows98 Second Edition. You may also need to install usb
drivers that came with the usb hub.

Look at this site for more suggestions:

http://www.usbman.com/Troubleshooter%20General.htm

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mt080804

[Mike Nute]

el_squ...@yahoo.com (Slavko Vorkapitch) wrote in article
news:e0a5b916.04072...@posting.google.com:

> HI - I just reinstalled the system image on my Compaq Presario (Win
> 98)- I was previously using XP Pro which was just too much for this
> little baby... Problem now is my USB hub (2.0) appears to work fine -
> when I turn on/off my external hard drive the little icon appears
> (disappears)on the status bar but the drive never shows up in windows
> explorer... Also get an invalid drive specification when I type f: in
> a dos window... Any help appreciated.

Since you were using the drive in XP, is it formatted as NTFS? Windows 98
can't read NTFS, so it won't show up with a drive letter. It will bring up
the "unplug or eject" icon near the clock, however. This is exactly how my
NTFS formatted firewire drive behaves in win98.

There are 2 things you can do...

There is a third party driver for reading NTFS in windows 9x, I think it is
called NTFSDOS or similar. The free version does not allow you to save data
to the drive.

The other thing you can do is fdisk and format the drive in 98 so that it
will become fat32, but this will destroy the data that's on the drive.
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