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Boot disk + hard drive - 2 questions

  • 11-10-2006 7:27pm
    #1
    shamrock2004
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭


    Hi there.
    I have 2 questions regarding boot disks and hard drives.
    Firstly,
    I have a spare hard drive (NTFS) 10GB which i hook up on my
    secondary IDE channel.
    When i boot into dos from a windows 98 boot disk, this secondary
    hard drive is not recognised. Any ideas why this would be?

    Secondly, im looking to make this second hard drive bootable.
    I want to transfer the windows 98 boot disk files from the floppy
    onto this harddrive so that later on, i can hook it up on the primary
    IDE channel and boot from it; I have tried using the copy function
    in dos to transfer the files but it wont boot, it keeps giving me a
    dll error.Again, any ideas?

    I would really appreciate any help, as i'm inexperienced with book disks.
    Many thanks!!!
    Regards,
    Shamrock


Comments

  • #2
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Dos can't read NTFS without a driver.


  • #3
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Windows 98 doesn't support NTFS, which was introduced with Windows NT and never in the 9x core. You will need to reformat it to a file system that Windows 98 understands, like FAT32.


  • #4
    Baraboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭Baraboo


    Hi Shamrock2004

    The best thing you could do is search for a tutorial on Fdisk. This is a program included on the 98 boot disk that will format the NTFS partition as Fat 32 which can be read by Windows 98. Be warned that it will destroy all data on that partition.

    Baraboo


  • #5
    shamrock2004
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭shamrock2004


    ok, thanks,
    ill give it a bash and post back if I have any probs.
    many thanks.
    Regards,
    Shamrock


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