SCSI disk cannot be opened in WinXP

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Hi,

I'm a desperado now!!!

I went from Win98Lite in my recording studio to WinXP. After the installation which went fine I saw that my SCSI drive could not be opened. I got an error message like this (translated from Swedish): "The drive is not formatted. Do you want to format. Yes No". In the device manager everything looks ok and the drive is there working, the scsi card too. In the disk handling when "right clicking" on my computer the field for file system (fat/ntfs) is empty, but the drive is there with the right size. It says that all drive is available, like formatted.

I've been trying to install Win98 again without success, and during this I tried FSDISK and ran a DIR command on the disk. All files is still there.

** My question is how should I do to get the SCSI drive working with WinXP.

I've tried to go back to Win98 to se if the drive can be found there and possibly do a backup of it. Without success. I've tried with a start floppy (Win98) booting with CD. And also to make the install CD booting directly editing the BIOS.

** How should I do the get Win98 back. Hopefully this will not be needed.

All the best to you guys,
Hans
www.hagen.nu
 
Is this your one and only hard drive ??
Or is it a second HD for audio ??
How do you have it hooked up ??
Jumper settings...cableing..IDE 1 or 2...etc..
 
Hi Stealthtech,
I have an IDE for system and this SCSI drive for files.

IDE 1: System disk (IBM IDE by it self)
IDE 2: Plextor CDRW as master and AOPEN CD as slave
SCSI: Adaptec 19160 and IBM SCSI disk

Motherboard: ASUS A7M266 with normal settings.

What I know the cables and settings are fine...

This setup worked just fine in Win98Lite except for some problems which I think are OS related. I got ASIO errors. In my second computer less powerful but with WinXP this does not accur. That's why I want to change.

Hans
 
Hrn, have you tried reformatting the SCSI drive from within Winxp using Start/settings/contol panel /administrative tools/ computer management/storage/ disc management? Using this is it may be possible to repartition and format the drive if it shows up (right mouse click/format etc). If not have u installed WinxP SP1 and done all possible updates?
 
Hi,
The problem is that I have a lot of info on the SCSI drive which I don't want to loose. Yes, I did install all the updates, servicepacks, drivers etc.

How can I get back to Win98 the easiest way, though maybe the drive can be read there?

Anyone familiar with DOS commands. Thought I could put another disk to the computer and copy the files from DOS. Then I can format the SCSI. How should this be done?

Thanks,
Hans
 
The easiset way to get back to Win98 is probably to get hold of a spare (perhaps 2nd hand) IDE drive. Many are available dirt cheap. Then partition/reformat this with Win98se and see if u can access your SCSI. If u can, then install CD-RW and dump to CD. Then maybe return Winxp master IDe again and see if u can reformat SCSI as I suggested. Good Luck.
 
Hi,
I've been able to restore the files by copying them to another drive through the old DOS program Norton Commander. The problem I have now is that the files have new names. You know, the old max 8 letters....the ~ sign you know. But I'm very happy this far. It will take some time to get the files right into the project, but at least they are available. Next step is to backup them with my Seagate Travan!!!!

........After a while I just can install WinXP and just format the SCSI.

Puuuuhhhh, ......DOS won against WinXP this time.

Hans
www.hagen.nu
 
Think you guys want to know the final solution. I did like this:

As I was not able to install Win98 the usual way with boot disk and cd I did like this:

Step 1: The IDE system disk in the studio computer has two partitions, C: and D: . I took it and connected it to my home computer and copied the whole win98 install cd to partition D: .

Step 2: I put it back into my studio computer and made a boot from a Win98 start floppy putting it to DOS mode with Ctrl + F5.

Step 3: In the DOS mode I just browsed to the copied Win98 cd and did an install command.

The great thing is that the SCSI disk is now available in Win98 for backup. Then I probably have to format the SCSI drive to get it working with WinXP.

I think there can be a problem moving disks from an earlier Win98 system to WinXP. RWhite, I saw your post about this. But I think the problem could be more serious than the info available on the Microsoft site. I had done a full upload of all updates including service packs and drivers when I first reconned the problem.

Hopefully this info can be helpful for others.

Cheers,
Hans
www.hagen.nu

I'll have a REEEAAAAL cold Guiness now just relaxing....
 
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