2nd HD not recognized by Win98SE
Hi Everyone,
I was running diagnostics on my Maxtor91020D6 HD. This is a secondary. I was trying to eliminate a bad sector. I was using Powermax V2.5 diagnostic utility from Maxtor. After I successfully ran all the tests and restarted my machine I got an error message telling me that it could not open D drive (my secondary) because of some device attached. The I made sure it was properly installed. Powmax also said D was properly installed. They have a diagnostic for this.
Then I made sure all my cables were securely fastened and correctly installed. When I restarted my computer my D Drive was missing entirely.
It is recognized in the BIOS just not in the OS.
What do I do?
Win98Se, K7SEM M0bo,Onboard Sound(AC'97) &Video (AGP4X); IE6; Netscape 6.2, WIN98SE, 2-HD's 1st 12G. 2nd 10G.Epson C60; Visioneer Scanner, Aiptek Videocam; 17" Monitor, Iomega 100, 20X CDROM; 56K, AOL 8.0; MS Word 2000; Command AV., & over 40 Games
Thanks,
orangeman
2fnd HD now becomes a 'virtual ramdrive'
Hi Gang,
Something interesting happened. After I got my D drive or 2nd HD back. I ran scandisk and reformat. This is because I could not open my D drive until I did.
After I did that and rebooted my D drive dissappeared AGAIN!
I have contacted Maxtor Technical support regarding this issue but it may be three days before I am able to get an answer and use this drive - assuming they answer my question.
Anyway to answer NooNoo's question. When I reboot using a startup disk I do get a D Drive. I can NOT format it or run scandisk. I get an error message "missing parameter"
I input FORMAT D:
When I boot with a boot disk and click,'Boot without CDROM support' I get a message saying "Diagnostic Tools are being loaded into Drive D. Microsoft Virtual RAMDRIVE Version 3.06. "
Evidently my 2nd HD has become a virtual RAMDRIVE. (V.3.06).
How do I change this?
THanks,
Orangeman