Quantum HD now showing up

hi,
I need help..........My frined gave me a Dell Optiplex GX!, 400 Mz 160 mb ram, Quantum Firball HD. The pc has NT on it and was used as a server. The motherboard has 2 Hard drive connectors. Here's whet I did: I put in a CD rom and a new HD for master and slave, set the HD as master and CD as slave....went fine. Noe I took the Quantum and put it on the second IDE and Jumpered it as a scondary master, showed up in the bios but it does not show up in windows. I have win 95 and I also have flashed the updated bios. No matter what I do it won't show up as a drive. Even by itself it boots off the Quantum, (with no there drives connected) goes in to NT and shows no drive in windows but it boots off of it. What I would like is to use the quantum for storage but I can't access it to format it.

Help!
Bob

 

If I understand correctly, it sounds like you have two hard drives - one with win95 and the other (the quantum) with NT.

If this is the case, and you are booting into Windows 95 expecting to gain access to the Quantum with NT on it and it is not showing up in Windows .....

Well, your Quantum was formatted with NTFS. Windows 95 cannot read that file system.

You will have to load Windows 95, goto a DOS prompt and run the FDISK command. In FDISK pick the option to switch to your second device and then get rid of the partition on the Quantum.

From there you should be able to make a new FAT32 partition on it and Windows should be able to see it fine and format it!

Hope that's your problem!

 

What I did before I checked back here is I installed Win 98 but that didn't help. I read your post (obviously) and I'm gonna' try what you suggested......do I do this from a Dos prompt in windows or should I restart in Dos?

thanks sooooo much!
Bob

 

I would suggest running FDISK in whatever environment you eventually end up using the second hard drive.

So a DOS window in win9x would work fine!!

glad to help

 

Well I switched to the second HD and created a primard dos partition on the second disk, it shows up now but it says "media not recognized" maybe with all your knowledge you can give me step by step instuctions in the fdisk command, I may not be choosing the correct prompts.

thanks again

 

Oh by the way it says "media not recognized" when I try to format it.........

 

Hi Bob,

Does it say invalid media type? or media not recognized?