On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:57:49 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
The simple remedy would be to stuff in an XP pro CD and partition and format the
Hdd to NTFS and install the OS.
However, it's a DELL and I bet you haven't got an install CD.
Are you telling us the Seagate Hdd is only 2gig? If so use it as a fishing
weight and get something useful.
Other then that I think you are stuck up a gum tree.
Come on Wayne - think of something (new computer maybe?)
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