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I recently acquired an old pc. When I booted it up, got a menu for several NT boot options, and for 1 for Win95. I decided to redo hard drives (2), and booted with a Win98 boot disk. When trying to access the C: drive from the dos prompt got invalid drive specification. So being the genius I am, I decided to fdisk, repartition both hard drives, reformat and start clean. FDisk showed non-dos partitions, so I erased them and reestablished partitions making them Dos-partitions. Now, nothing works, the puter doesn't see either hard drive (WD Caviars) and won't boot even from the floppy! I tried putting one of the hard drives in another computer, and it wasn't recognized. MB is an ASUS P/I-P55TP4XE. Please help me!!!
Colette,
Try out DATALIFEGUARD from Western Digital. I have used it several times to remove NT and Linux partitions.
Some people don't like it because it leaves EZ-BIOS on your hard drive, but that has never really caused me problems.
http://www.westerndigital.com/service/ftp/drives.html
Good Luck
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Goto Western Digital's website www.wd.com or www.westerndigital.com and download lifeguard tools. It is a self booting diagnostic / disk setup program. You will need to create the utility disk using a windows machine.
NT causes a lot of problems when trying to convert back to dos, win 9x only. www.bootdisk.com used to have a utility to fix NT corrupted partitions, but I don't know if they still do or not.
The non-booting floppy could be as simple as boot sequence in the bios. Most of the time the bios entry key(s) are displayed during the post. It's usually the del key. Check that the boot sequence is A:, C:
A low-level format will also cause problems with a working drive.
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Thanks, I'll try your suggestions. As to a low level format, I never got to format the drives; will let ya'll know if these suggestions worked. Thanks again!! Colette
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And the FDISK in DR-DOS 7.03 will remove the partitions. I used it on Linux partitions and had no bad outcomes.
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I need to be able to boot up into a win95 box using a bootable disk that recognize partitions larger than 2GB. Can you please give any suggestions.
Thanks-Luis
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I have a WD second hard drive worked fine in another as a second hard drive under win98. I plugged into a Compaq Deskpro as a second ary slave and the BIOS detected fine. Please note that I have important data in and I do not want to loose. In Fdisk the second hard drive shows as Non-Dos Partition and can not make an extended dos partition. Need Help. Thanks
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I am having win98 OS,20gb hdd 3097mb PRI dos and 15629mb EXT dos partition. there are no logical drives in EXT dos partition. If i say Delete ext dos partition using FDISK it gives me message that "Can not delete extended dos partition while logical drives exist".
earlier to this there was win98 and Linux on the same HDD & linux was occuping 4gb. now if i try to install linux it shows me 4gb slice information only, but it is not able to load the linux since the space is not available (as it is occupied by EXT dos partition which i cant remove)
Please give me the solution to remove EXT dos partition for above case. or suggest any utility / s/w.
thanks
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