On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, steven 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.
PM should have warned him (don't know if it actually does) that
since a Win98 OS was on the drive, converting the drive to ntfs
would make the Win98 OS useless. A Win9x Fat based file system
can *NOT* be converted to ntfs and still boot as a Win9x OS,
even if all files/folders are still on the drive.
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.
Can the bios and/or XP see the full 45Gs?
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.
ASSUMING no data recovery is needed, use MaxBlast4 to "zero
out" the drive, and then try to install an OS.
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