We have a Dell Laptop inspiration 1525. Vista is installed.

We also have a lot of USB drivers on a bootable CDROM Win98.

When we CDROM boot it, then we can access the Flash Stick, which
we attached in the USB port.

But we can't access a large USB HD.

Apparent the USB drivers will only give access to USB sticks, NOT access to a USB HD.

The closed we get, was the Panasonic USB mass-storage ASPI manager, which
gave us this message: ID 0 = HD.. Hitacki HDP725050GLA360 GM40

In other words, the ASPI manager did found the USB HD, but we also need
a drive letter, so we can access the USB HD.

Benny

USB support under DOS is greatly a hit and miss game.
If I were you, I would (temporarily) forget about your current Win98 boot CD, and make a new one based on this bootdisk:
http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/usbdrv.html

Don't forget to check this (latest patched version of Panasonic USBASPI, 2.28:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=126444&hl=

...and of course your mileage may vary.

If you are willing to boot off the USB hard disk, you may want to try PloP:
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmngrusblog.html
and possibly report to Elmar either success or failure.

jaclaz

Thanks for reply!

Tried, but nothing good.
ID:0 LUN:0 HD... reported by most drivers... (including the Panasonic USBASPI.EXE ver 2.28)

The last step, (a drive letter C is not shown).
So it seems to fail - no solution for access the USB HD.

Benny

Could it be a filesystem problem?
I.e. has the hard disk a FAT16 or FAT32 partition?

I seem to remember that some drivers were NOT "FS agnostic".

Another driver that in some cases provided success where other failed is this one:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=4260&st=10

jaclaz

hello again,
sorry the link is not accessible !!!!
use iso buster to take the bootable part of the ghost 2003 cd which it self is bootable.and usable .
that usually sees USB 1.1 USB hard disks .

Ben