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"?

        Doug White

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