Win 98 SE does not recognize hard drive

[alidabiri]

Hi

Im trying to install a new hard drive in win 98 SE. BIOS recognizes the drive as secondary master wd300bb, but windows doesn't recognize. How do I get windows to recognize the hard drive?

 

[peepnklown]

Hopefully you formatted and partitioned the secondary drive…The Western Digital HDD should have came with a disk with a utility to help you do so.

 

[Jono91]

I'm not sure about this, but it might be formatted with NTFS and Win98 does not recognize NTFS???

 

[Liquidlen]

Win 98 is going to have trouble with 300 gigs also.
WD has a drive partitioning utility you can downld from their site to prepare that HDD.
I think 98 capacity is 137 gig so keep your partitions a good hunk under that

 

[Vigilante]

WD will have the overlay software you need to get a single 300gb partition. But you can't trust any of 98's tools like fdisk and format. You need to use manufacturer's tools.

 

[Liquidlen]

I have never had any luck with drive overlay software. Sooner or later it will conflict with something.Windows has enuf glitches.
But , that is just me.

 

[Jono91]

I had the same problem with my 200gig on win 2000, someone showed me this trick:

1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters
3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value:
Value name: EnableBigLba
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0x1
4. Quit Registry Editor.

I don't know if it will work on win 98 SE but it is worth a try

Good Luck!

 

[peepnklown]

OS & BIOS Limits
Data Lifeguard Tools 11
The following link will guide you through the Tools (if you BIOS sees the 300GBs then you will not need the controller card they are talking about). HERE