What a week! First I lost all my data to the Chernobyl virus and then I went and screwed up my old pc (now enthusiastically used by my 70 year old mum for internet etc!) when I tried to install Nuts & Bolts. Now I'm feeling stupid and guilty as I can't fix it and my poor old mum has no pc.

Quick background:

486 DX2 66MHz, Windows 95
Promise EIDE Max
Quantum Fireball (additional drive)

Quick background:

1. Not enough room on c: drive to back up some system files with installation of Nuts & Bolts.
2. Didn't back them up on floppy (idiot!) with the result that on booting an 'error in exe file' came up if you typed WIN from DOS.
3. Played with config.sys etc to get CD Rom drive to work from DOS in order to reinstall windows.
4. Windows 95 works now (albeit with some odd error messages) BUT now, In bios set up after booting, the Quantum Fireball is seen (for D: and E: Drive) but at the DOS prompt and windows, only the C: drive is there?

Please help me get them back!

Thanks,

Tom

Run FDISK /STATUS at a dos prompt and email me w/ the output.
Sounds like your secound drive has some partition problems. You may have to run FDISK /MBR on it.

Bet Linux could see all your partitions...

An so could Partition Magic, PartitionIt, NDD . . . . IF the bastards still exist!

Fucken Linux! It's good for some things - but then so's having a wank!

Linux is the most over-rated OS since Windows! It IS NOT the 100% Error Free enviroment it says it is - Ask the 100s of users with crashed or ruined hard drives, Not the 5 or 6 geeks who speed days on end trying to get it to work! (Sounds like windows as well to me!)

Pirate - We agree at last.

LINUX is not worth a TOSS

I am having the EXACT same problem (almost).

I have:
486 DX2 66 mHz
Dos 6.22
Windows 3.1
Award! BIOS and CMOS

The BIG question: With hard drives, my primary IDE interface is being used with my C: drive
(504 mg) and my D: drive is a slave drive to the primary IDE interface (my CD-ROM).

I also have a secondary IDE interface. I have another hard drive (122 mg) hooked up to it. When
I get into my CMOS, the computer WILL detect that the 122mg hard drive is there. The CMOS
calls that drive Drive E:.

When I boot up my computer, this thing that pops up says that I have a hard drive labled drive C:
(504 mg) and that I also have a hard drive labled Drive E: (122 mg).

BUT, when I get into DOS 6.22 or Windows 3.1, my computer says "invalid drive specification"
when I type in "E:". Is that screwy or what!?

How do I make DOS recognize that I have a drive E:???????? I know that I have everything
hooked up right because my CMOS detects everything right.

The 122mg hard drive works when it's on the primary IDE interface.

I need serious help!!!!!! HOW DO I MAKE DOS RECOGNIZE THAT I HAVE A DRIVE
E:????!!!!!????