I'm running Win98SE...trying to attach a Maxtor external 200 GB hard drive.
I was able to partition the drive, but upon restart I get the error message "a device attached to the system is not functioning."
In "my computer" I can see the F: assigned to this drive, but can't open it. I think it still needs to be formatted, but I can't do that yet because all I get is that error message.
In searching online I find a variety of problems with this error message, but none seem to apply to this situation.
I'm having other software/error messages with this computer--just uninstalled Norton Cleansweep and that fixed some of it--but I'm stuck on the hard drive issue.
Ideas?
I was able to partition the drive, but upon restart I get the error message "a device attached to the system is not functioning."
In "my computer" I can see the F: assigned to this drive, but can't open it. I think it still needs to be formatted, but I can't do that yet because all I get is that error message.
In searching online I find a variety of problems with this error message, but none seem to apply to this situation.
I'm having other software/error messages with this computer--just uninstalled Norton Cleansweep and that fixed some of it--but I'm stuck on the hard drive issue.
Ideas?