Can't access NTFS-formatted HD...

[Click Beetle DX]

Hello, everyone.

When I used to have a laptop set up with 98SE and XP on the same HD, I used NTFS4DOS to access the NTFS partition under 98SE. Now, I have my desktop running 98SE on the C drive and XP running on the D drive (which is connected to a PCI RAID card). I've tried about five different programs to access the D drive from 98SE with no success. While these programs correctly identify the D drive as 500GB, they're unable to access it. None of the programs have given me any helpful "reason" why, except for NTFS4DOS which reports: "Hard Drive partitions not found by XP_SHELL!"

So, what (if anything) can I do?

Any help appreciated. Thank you.

[dencorso]

Did you try Paragon NTFS for Win98?

[Click Beetle DX]

Did you try Paragon NTFS for Win98?

Yes. I tried five or so different programs of that kind, Paragon's being among them. No success.

[dencorso]

Is it set up as a single 500 MB partition?

Does XP chkdsk consider that partition OK?

Do files bigger than 4 GiB - 1byte actually exist inside that partition?

[Click Beetle DX]

Is it set up as a single 500 GB partition?

Yes.

And, as I said before, the NTFS programs for Win98 that I've tried can correctly detect the HD and its size - they just can't access its file system.

Does XP chkdsk consider that partition OK?

Yes.

Do files bigger than 4 GiB - 1byte actually exist inside that partition?

The largest sized single file stored on the partition is 2GB. Nearly 30GB of the total space is currently used by files.

[dencorso]

Which PCI RAID card?

Did you install a Win 98 driver for it?

Is it detected by the Device Manager?

[Click Beetle DX]

Which PCI RAID card?

It's a HighPoint RocketRAID 1720.

Did you install a Win 98 driver for it?

Yes.

Is it detected by the Device Manager?

Yes.

Other programs such as NOD32 anti-virus also acknowledge the HD, but of course can't access it since it's NTFS-formatted.