AT 12:22 AM 11/5/99 -0400, Automatic digest processor, WROTE....

>Date:    Fri, 5 Nov 1999 09:16:45 +0800
>From:    Lim Wei Siong Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Accessing Multiple Hard Drives
>
>Have you format the E: drive?  Your mail only mentioned formating the 4
gig drive but
>not the second partition on your 4 gig drive.  Formating 4GB != Formating
2GB (1st
>Part) + Formating 2GB (2nd Part).
>
        The E: drive is the original 2gb drive that came with the computer.  I
added the second 4gb drive to increase capacity.  The idea was to format
the 4gb drive into two 2gb partions which became drive C: and D:.  Then the
old drive was installed as a slave drive and marked as drive E:

        Explorer "sees" drive E: but it lists it as "0" bytes and is not accessible.

        What do I need to do make it accessible?

        Doug White


>At 02:56 PM 11/04/1999 , Doug White wrote:
>>         I recently upgraded an older P166 computer for a friend.  I
added more
>>memory and a higher capacity hard drive.
>>
>>         However, the "new" drive was a 4.2 gig drive formatted with
Win98 (I
>>removed from another computer).  His machine had a 2 gig drive with Win95
>>on it.
>>
>>         I reformatted the 4gig drive to remove the Fat32 formatting and
then made
>>two 2 gig partitions to make it consistent with the Win95 partition
>>limitation.  I then re-installed Win95 on it and installed the drive as the
>>primary drive.
>>
>>         I then set the old 2 gig drive as a slave drive.
>>
>>         When I first installed the 4 gig drive with Win98 still on it,
both drives
>>were visible and accessible from Explorer.
>>
>>         But when I reformatted the 4 gig drive to Win95 (to be
consistent with the
>>older drive that has all his old files on it), Explorer "sees" the two new
>>partitions as drive "C" and "D" and it "sees" the old drive as drive "E"
>>but drive "E" cannot be accessed.  Drive "E" is visible but Explorer shows
>>it as "0" bytes and won't access the drive.
>>
>>         What do I need to do to get Win95 to "see" and access drive "E"?
>
>

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