98 how can the system find the second hard drive

1Select Disk Management in all management tools, you will see the second hard disk, click Change Setting Drive Letter, set a drive letter for the second hard disk, and then look at my computer.

If not, if the hard disk is too large, you can try to install Win XP. I successfully installed XPSP2 on a 10G hard disk and 128M memory computer a few days ago, you can try SP1.

1.It may be that the second hard drive cable is loose.

2.It may be that the power cord of the second hard drive is loose.

The first thing to do is to determine if your hard drive can be found at the hardware level at the low level.

It may be that the data cable of the hard disk is loose, you can plug it in again to see.

There are two ways to install dual systems on dual hard drives: one is to install the dual system on the first hard disk, and divide the second block into extended partitions, and then the system (Windows 98 ME) will not have the phenomenon of interlaced drive letters after booting. However, the dual systems share the same hard disk area to boot, and sometimes the two systems may affect each other, which is very uncomfortable; Another way is to divide both hard drives into hard "C:".

Zone, install a separate system on each "C:" area, so that the two systems are completely independent, and there is no longer any fear of the interaction of the two systems.

The dual hard drives on my computer are also installed in this way. The first Quantum is Windows 2000 for learning, which is connected to the first IDE interface; The second Quantum 15GB is Windows 98 for gaming, and is connected to the second IDE port. When you boot Windows 2000, both hard disks can be accessed, but when you boot Windows 98, you must block the first hard disk (the "type" of the hard disk in the BIOS is set to "none"), otherwise it will not boot, but this is miserable.

Suddenly, I remembered that my brother's computer was a dual system with dual hard drives in the same way, but when Windows Me with the second hard drive was booted up, he still had access to all the hard drives. I opened my brother's machine with doubts and took a look, and it dawned on me. It turns out that his motherboard supports dual hard disks in the BIOS boot option, and can choose HDD0 or HDD1 boot, while my motherboard is ASUS P2B, and the BIOS does not support dual hard disk boot at all (Editor's note:

In fact, P2B can also support dual hard disk boot, and there are "C" or "D" options in the BIOS, which is equivalent to HDD0 and HDD1). It seems that to boot with the hard drive on the second IDE, the hard drive on the first IDE must be masked and it cannot be accessed. I understand the reason, I'm still unwilling, do I have to put the first hard drive aside in order to use the second C drive?

So I started torturing my machine again, but no matter how much I thought about it and how I fiddled with it, there was still no way. Inadvertently, I switched the two hard disks, connected the hard disk with Windows 2000 to the second IDE interface (note, set the "type" of the hard disk to "Auto"), entered the BIOS to shield the hard disk on the first IDE interface, and rebooted the Windows 2000 system on the small hard disk. Wow!

It's really unbelievable that the drive letter of the first hard disk appeared at this time, and the drive letter of the first hard disk was neatly arranged after the second hard drive, avoiding the staggering of drive letters. It seems that the plug-and-play functionality of Windows 2000 is stronger than that of Windows 98, and I can completely use dual hard drives on dual systems. I watched those drive letters appear on the familiar desktop, and I couldn't help but admire, how lovely Windows 2000 is!

98 can support up to 120G hard drives!

2000 If you can use a 20G hard drive at all, then it's not a hardware problem!

I suspect that none is set in your bios settings

2000 Find HDD does not require BIOS support!

But 98 absolutely!

And also! The installer that installs 98 can theoretically support a second hard drive!

You just need to see the hard drive in DOS!

Then 98 is ready to use!

Other than that! Incorrect parameters can also cause this problem.

In addition to paying attention to the problem of interlacing of disk letters, there is no need to worry about anything else.

As you said, the jumper of these two drives is correct, and the 2000 system can recognize both.

You can run the fdisk operation in the DOS interface of win98 to see if there is an extra item 5, switch the hard disk.

And use fdisk to check the format of the second hard disk.

Another possibility is to see if the second hard drive in the BIOS is disabled because even if it is set to none, 2000 will automatically recognize the hard drive.

How big is the other hard drive?

It seems that 98 only supports the largest hard drives, although it is also related to the motherboard, but definitely 98 does not support such large hard drives.

Set the second hard disk in the BIOS settings first, and use the boot disk to boot it in the DOS to see if you can find the second hard disk...

If there is an error in the partition table, you can update or rebuild the MBR boot to resolve the problem. Note: Doing this step will not result in file loss! PE operation is accessible.

PE systems generally come with 1-3 software to choose from, and DiskGenius is one of them, Open-HDD-Rebuild Master Boot Record (MBR)...Then save and restart.

Generally speaking, I use data recovery software to restore the files from the hard drive to another hard drive and then repartition it.

Give you the best method with the program, what Q number.

It is recommended that you initialize the BIOS (I mean initializing the BIOS instead of finding the hard disk again) and the problem should be solved. Because I've been to this situation before, that's how I solved it

Take it to a friend and try it to see if the hard drive is good.

Let's see if the hard disk jumper is plugged in, and does the motherboard support large-capacity hard disks (why do you still use 98)!

What year, still use 9988.

Switch to XP pull, or win 2000, a little more stable, and fewer problems.

I'll go, won't you give it a quota???

Pull out all the 40g disk jump money (that is, those small plastic dings behind the hard disk),,It should be ready to use when you connect it again。

Let's take a look at the jumper on the hard drive first. Jump the jumper and connect it and you can use it directly.