A friend brought me his Dell 166 computer. It originally had a maxtor
overlay and a maxtor 53073h4 drive. It was set up as a fat 32. He
also added a small seagate 32140a drive. The computer dual booted w98
on maxtor, xp on seagate. He then used partition magic 8 on the
maxtor, to make it an ntsf drive, and thats when all the problems
started. The overlay disappeared, the boot sector on the maxtor (c)
drive disappeared. Using a small program I found which installs the
ntldr and bypasses the c drive allows me to boot to d drive which had XP.
I wanted to fix C drive to allow booting, nothing allows me to
re-install either w98 or xp. Drive c is visible in the bios, it is
visible and useable as slave drive. That is, I can copy to and from.
According to PM 8 it was one huge partition indicating active
partition. I have tried making it the slave, removing it entirely ,
using seagate as master drive, but then it will not boot. The seagate
need the Maxtor there to help it boot.
I am stuck.
How do I fix the Maxtor to boot as it once did. How do I reload the
operating system onto it.
There doesn't seem to be a fdisk command any longer.
The seagate is really to small to be very useful, it is only 2gig.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
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