[RESOLVED] Hard drive problem with WIN95

[Andrea]

I am trying to install a second HD on my
computer, a Pentium mmx with chipset VX.The hd is Samsung VA34324A of 4.32gb. With DOS everything is O.K,i can partition with FDISK and format.

But Win95 give me an error of unformatted disk, and FDISK says : write protected disk

Thanks in advance.

[Starion]

Do you have Win95 SR2? If you have this, FDISK create partition fith FAT32. And, maybe, if you haven't set "Large disk access" in FDISK (on starting of FDISK), you can have problems. But maybe. If you have older version of Win95 (in system manager, it's 4.00.95), really I don't know...

Starion
starioncomp@geocities.com

[nature]

Dis you check Jumper on hard drive yet. Sometime the jumper can kill you. Make sure it on Master and Also next time let people know what your old hd manuf. Not all hd likes the other guy. Looks like they tried to be a numero uno. I have Samsung old one 120Meg couple year back. Just don't fit likes other. By itself okay. Hooks up with Conner or Western Digital on AST keep crashed left and right. I felt so stupid to see the owner of that system. He understand it not my fault. But it makes you looks real bad. Call Conner they finally say itsn't compatible. So check it out first.

[iwantai]

im sorry but i probablypost this as a new topic sometime soon..i threw in another hard drive on 75mhz
one is a maxtor and the other an adaptec i think. 812 mb and 1002mbs the 1002 is on secondary and windows 95 wont recognize it the top fix doesnt solve it

[Rkring1]

Download Wipe program from Windrivers utility section and run it on the drive , this will get rid of all info on drive.Then download Maxtors installation program ( Maxblast) , it supports drives other than Maxtor now.It shold take care of your partitioning and formatting. As mentioned in the other posts , be sure the jumpers are set right on both drives ! If the above doesn't work , try installing the Samsung as a master on IDE 1 and remove the other drive,set it up and then try installing the other drive with it.
Samsung also has an installation utility on their site , but I've never used it , and don't know anything about it.

[This message has been edited by Rkring1 (edited March 06, 2001).]

[Compugeek]

OK,
The first thing is to assure the jumpers are correct.
You can have four IDE devices in your computer. One hard drive one CDROM two hard drives one CDROM etc. Now the big thing is even though you have everyhting right, you may still not get the drive working. Not all drives are made to work together. See if the drive will work alone first. If so you know the drive is OK.
If your using FAT instead of FAT32 your limites to 2.1 gigs per drive. Sorry that's the limitation of FAT. It can only address so much space at a time. When you FDIsk'd the computer sis you enable the large hard drive support? If not try again and enable it. Then assuming your OS (WIN 95 version B) is OK, you also have to ensure your motherboard BIOS will handle the drive. I would reccomend that you try the drive by itself first. then you can set it up as the slave. Remember to change the jumpers.
Good Luck


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[3D Prophet II]

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong! But I would hope that Andrea would have her hard drive problem fixed by now, it's only been over two years since she originally posted her question. Uhh, December 12, 1998? And that FAT thingy limitaion there, I had run Win98 using FAT 16 for almost 3 months before I had Win98 change the file allocation table from FAT 16 to FAT 32. It's the O/S's limitation not the FAT ( File Allocation Table ).

[3D Prophet II]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by 3D Prophet II:
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong! But I would hope that Andrea would have her hard drive problem fixed by now, it's only been over two years since she originally posted her question. Uhh, December 12, 1998? And that FAT thingy limitaion there, I had run Win98 using FAT 16 for almost 3 months before I had Win98 change the file allocation table from FAT 16 to FAT 32. It's the O/S's limitation not the FAT ( File Allocation Table ).</font>

Oh, I forgot to mention, I've got a 20.4GB, 15.3GB and 6.4GB hard drives installed into my system. I believe it's MS-DOS's limitaion to see anything over 2.148GBs, not the FAT ( file allocation table). That 2.148GB above is 2,148 MBs, not 2 million 148 thousand MBs. I could be wrong, but I think any DOS version below 7.10 is limited to the 2.148.

[This message has been edited by 3D Prophet II (edited March 10, 2001).]