The drive needs to be partitioned and formatted before Windows cab access it. The procedure can vary in 98 depending on what the manufacturer offers. I might remove the drive from the enclosure attach it as a secondary drive and partition and format from there.
Hi,
I have bought an external hard disk comprised of an icy box IB-350 USB and a hitachi 80GO hard disk inside, model HDS728080PLAT20.
I have installed it, and it appears in my device manager under Hard Disk controllers, and Disk readers (rough translation from French). However I dont have any access to it. In my computer it doesnt appear. When I right click my computer I have an option to connect to drives from E-Z but that doesnt do anything.
In device manager I tried to type in a drive for the disk, I get the cursor but cant type anything.
Any ideas? The manual doesnt explain more. The only problem in installation was that it said to set the jumper to master on the HDD, but I couldnt see how to do this.
I have windows 98SE.
I can call the manufacturers in Germany on Monday, but would like to see if there's an obvious error here.
I'm not an advanced user.
Thanks
Sarah

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