Hello all,
OK, I'm at wits end. So looking for some suggestions.
I bought a Maxtor 40G hardrive and was going to slave it to my primary. Well I forgot that I had a tape drive slaved to my primary and a CD rewriter slaved to my CD rom...so no available data ports or power plugs.
I had a ton of trouble trying to install it in any postion -- i was unhooking all the other drives trying to find a position that worked. The only one that successfully installed was slave position to my CD Rom drive. I copied over my existing hardrive over to it --- as I was thinking I could then use it as my main drive. I guess I should not have done none of this, as I couldn't actually leave it in that position.
At anyrate, I wanted to istall it as my primary slave, but I kept and still keep getting stuck at boot up....I've tried all the install ware and DOS and Windows bootups..I'm using Win 98 by the way.
This is getting too long, but to cut to the chase, through some nonconventional methods, I finally get to the step to partition and format my new drive via my software that came with the drive...and it tells me that "there was an error reading the root directory b/c there are too many root directory entries" and it kicks me back to A:\ prompt.
What does this mean and how do I correct it? I cannot get my computer to recognize this new drive at all anytime when I boot up in that position, even though I set it up in BIOS..maybe I'm doing it wrong..can anyone give me ideas at all? ...on the root directory issue? I have deleted all the programs and files that I copied over to it from my previous attempt.
If I go through a partioning and setup as a secondary slave...does that eliminate all possiblilites of later changing it to primary or primary slave or reformating, etc....
Thank you..I'm very frustrated
Mark
OK, I'm at wits end. So looking for some suggestions.
I bought a Maxtor 40G hardrive and was going to slave it to my primary. Well I forgot that I had a tape drive slaved to my primary and a CD rewriter slaved to my CD rom...so no available data ports or power plugs.
I had a ton of trouble trying to install it in any postion -- i was unhooking all the other drives trying to find a position that worked. The only one that successfully installed was slave position to my CD Rom drive. I copied over my existing hardrive over to it --- as I was thinking I could then use it as my main drive. I guess I should not have done none of this, as I couldn't actually leave it in that position.
At anyrate, I wanted to istall it as my primary slave, but I kept and still keep getting stuck at boot up....I've tried all the install ware and DOS and Windows bootups..I'm using Win 98 by the way.
This is getting too long, but to cut to the chase, through some nonconventional methods, I finally get to the step to partition and format my new drive via my software that came with the drive...and it tells me that "there was an error reading the root directory b/c there are too many root directory entries" and it kicks me back to A:\ prompt.
What does this mean and how do I correct it? I cannot get my computer to recognize this new drive at all anytime when I boot up in that position, even though I set it up in BIOS..maybe I'm doing it wrong..can anyone give me ideas at all? ...on the root directory issue? I have deleted all the programs and files that I copied over to it from my previous attempt.
If I go through a partioning and setup as a secondary slave...does that eliminate all possiblilites of later changing it to primary or primary slave or reformating, etc....
Thank you..I'm very frustrated
Mark