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re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE
Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 7:43 am
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Posted by MartinM (5127 messages posted)


Maybe its not the drive as such but the file system on it ? W98 can only read FAT-based file systems, whereas W2K and beyond can read both FAT32 and NTFS. So, if the HDD is formatted NTFS your W98 box won't be able to see it, if its in FAT32 then both can. You could re-format to FAT32 . . .




Written in response to:
New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (Kit: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 1:13 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (Kit: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 1:25 pm)
*re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (gewg_: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 3:04 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (Kit: Wed, Feb 18, 2009, 1:13 pm)
-re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (gewg_: Wed, Feb 18, 2009, 6:27 pm)
*re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (Kit: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 1:30 pm)
-re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (MartinM: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 7:43 am)
-re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (Kit: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 1:25 pm)
-re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (MartinM: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 3:34 pm)
*re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (Kit: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 3:47 pm)
*re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (gewg_: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 3:04 pm)
-re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (Follow-Up) (Kit: Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 3:02 pm)
*re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (Follow-Up) (C K: Sat, Feb 28, 2009, 8:54 am)
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