Formatting on a logical drive keeps "disappearing...&qu
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:01 pm
I am having a problem with the partitioning and formatting of a second hard drive I have added to my Thinkpad 600e 2645-4au.
The HD is a Western Digital Scorpio 80gb, installed as a second drive in the Ultraslimbay adapter. I am running Windows 98SE and using FDISK.exe (version 5/18/00) to perform the partitioning.
I partitioned this second drive using an extended DOS partition and then created 2 logical drives (D & E), 40gb each. After rebooting, I formatted both logical drives within Win98.
Both drives then appear to be working just fine, however when I reboot, a message comes up before Win98 is loaded stating: "Invalid Media Type reading Drive E - Abort, Retry, Fail?". Once Win98 has finished loading the E drive behaves as if it had not been formatted. When I click on it in Windows Explorer I get the message: "E:\ is not accessible - A device attached to the system is not functioning".
When I go into System Properties under the Performance tab it indicates: "Drive E is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system". This is despite having formatted the logical drive using FAT32.
The logical drive D seems to be unaffected and working properly.
I would appreciate if anyone has any advice/guidance they can provide in helping to solve this for me.
Thanks!
The HD is a Western Digital Scorpio 80gb, installed as a second drive in the Ultraslimbay adapter. I am running Windows 98SE and using FDISK.exe (version 5/18/00) to perform the partitioning.
I partitioned this second drive using an extended DOS partition and then created 2 logical drives (D & E), 40gb each. After rebooting, I formatted both logical drives within Win98.
Both drives then appear to be working just fine, however when I reboot, a message comes up before Win98 is loaded stating: "Invalid Media Type reading Drive E - Abort, Retry, Fail?". Once Win98 has finished loading the E drive behaves as if it had not been formatted. When I click on it in Windows Explorer I get the message: "E:\ is not accessible - A device attached to the system is not functioning".
When I go into System Properties under the Performance tab it indicates: "Drive E is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system". This is despite having formatted the logical drive using FAT32.
The logical drive D seems to be unaffected and working properly.
I would appreciate if anyone has any advice/guidance they can provide in helping to solve this for me.
Thanks!