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How do you get the sandisk to show up in win98? (modified 0 times) beeblebrox87 Profile Sorry, stupid question, but how do you get the sandisk to show up in win98? 03-17-2001 19:18:49

RE:How do you get the sandisk to show up in win98? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile I have to remember, but I think I ran fdisk and found that drive and formatted it. Once it was formatted windows found it. (as I remember) Later I used Ranish Partition Manager to make it a bootable 'floppy' http://www.geocities.com/mr_bubba_zanetti/ 03-17-2001 19:56:53

RE:How do you get the sandisk to show up in win98? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Not so stupid at all...Mine did not show up until I used PartitionMagic to format the thing. It comes with four partitions. You delete the partitions...create one new partition....format it (it formats into a Fat12)....make it active. Then from a DOS prompt on the hard-drive you can add DOS to the sandisk. You can then boot to the sandisk by changing the boot order in the BIOS. I keep an anti-virus on the sandisk....which I could run if my hard-drive ever got infected. It goes without saying that if you have an IDE cdrom attached, (one of my I-Openers does), you will not be able to do the just mentioned procedure. 03-17-2001 19:57:26

RE:How do you get the sandisk to show up in win98? (modified 0 times) Millennium_Falcon Profile | Email Ok, ckbone, does that mean that you cannot use the SanDisk with a CD attached or does that mean there is another method that you have to use. How about disconnecting the CD untill the SanDisk is fromatted and recognised then, using th PnP properties of the CD just let the system insall it and it will then be at the end of the chain? When I installed the CD (using ME as my opperating system) the complete installation was invisable to me so apparently ME just innstalled it at the end of the, then recogniseable, list. Or is there a simple 2 drive limit on the IO? 03-18-2001 10:04:15

RE:How do you get the sandisk to show up in win98? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile (jumping in) The Sandisk and HD are on the same IDE so you can only have two devices. Most people notice the sandisk disappearing with the addition of a CD (no need to disable the sandisk normally) 03-18-2001 10:41:03

RE:How do you get the sandisk to show up in win98? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Youbecha has it right. IDE specs have a two device limit on each controller. When you add a cdrom the sandisk is bumped and cannot be seen or accessed. You could setup the sandisk before you attached the cdrom....but it would only be usable if you disconnected the cdrom. If you did it this way, you would still have an emergency boot device available (the sandisk), only requiring a disconnection of the cdrom (not just the power, the whole IDE cable). Mine is setup this way. 03-18-2001 12:14:19

RE:How do you get the sandisk to show up in win98? (modified 0 times) Millennium_Falcon Profile | Email Maybe NOT the entire cable??? Surely it checks some line to determine the device is there, not all 44 lines. If we knew which line it was we could install a switch on the line so that it could be disabled without opening the box. Even better, a software enabled silicon switch that could be enabled through software when you needed the SanDisk and dissabled when you were finished with the SanDisk. Even better and better.....a program that switched between the two on demand so that you could create a software "floppy" storrage device by swapping the SanDisk with the CD as needed. 03-19-2001 09:33:58

RE:How do you get the sandisk to show up in win98? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Well perhaps you could pull it off, but it sounds like a whole lot of trouble for limited usefullness. An easier solution would be a new BIOS allowing a bootable cdrom. Badflash has been looking into this. One is available, but Jack wasn't satisfied with it last I heard. 03-19-2001 19:16:59

RE:How do you get the sandisk to show up in win98? (modified 0 times) Tackhead Profile FWIW, my units (V1 unmodified BIOS) require a soft-boot before they'll recognize the SanDisk with a hard drive installed. SanDisk only: Detects SanDisk (duh!) SanDisk + CDROM: Detects both on power-up and subsequent reboots. SanDisk + HDD: Detects only the hard drive on power-up. Ctrl-Alt-Deleting results in both devices being detected. SanDisk + HDD + CDROM: On powerup and subsequent reboots, always detects HDD and CDROM - the SanDisk gets bumped off the bus correctly. SanDisk + HDD + HDD: This is the only area where I have problems (V1 BIOS). The second hard drive doesn't seem to bump the SanDisk off the bus in the same way the CDROM does. It's been a few months since I looked at this issue - but I recall *not* being able to solve it with proper (or improper, I remember trying!) jumpering of the hard drives. Has anyone tried SanDisk + HDD + HDD with a newer BIOS and had success? (The goal here isn't to get all three - it's impossible - but to get the two hard drives to cooperate and kick off the SanDisk. The practical value of this would be that I sometimes use hard drives in removable caddies as "multi-gigabyte floppies". OK, not *too* practical... but it makes moving 8.4G of MP3s from one jukebox to another a snap 03-22-2001 11:02:42

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