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USB External Drive - 98 probs

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slimjim | 10:41 Fri 01st Oct 2004 | Technology
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I have an external hard drive that works fine on my XP machine (plug and go) but I cannot get it to work on my 98 machine. Have installed the drivers and it tells me this has been successful. I now have an icon in the toolbar for removing the device when I connect it. But I cannot get it to appear in Explorer as a drive. Any ideas?
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My ancient notebook is a 98 machine, and I have the same problem. Is your HDD a USB device? A lot of them will only work with 98SE. Unfortunately my notebook (a Sony Viao) has so many proprietary devices that I can't upgrade the OS :-(.
12:50 Fri 01st Oct 2004
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D'oh! Didn't notice the title properly! So, is your OS 98 or 98SE?
14:55 Fri 01st Oct 2004
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It's 98SE. SO should be ok and System Profiles area tells me that it is installed correctly and working ok. I just can't see it.
18:12 Fri 01st Oct 2004
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Erm, how is the hard drive formatted? If it is NTFS then the XP will see it OK but not the 98SE (which can only see FAT and FAT32 partitions).
08:43 Sat 02nd Oct 2004

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