|
|
|
the case of the missing hard drive
|
Original Message
|
Name: daotynroh
Date: April 4, 2003 at 11:50:51 Pacific
Subject: the case of the missing hard drive
OS: windows 98
CPU/Ram: 1000 mhz 394 megs
|
Comment: I had three working hard drives before I reinstalled windows (98): (C) 40 gig, (D) 8 gig, and (E) 120 gig. after installation I was left with only one drive (C) no partitions nothin. I tried every combination of ide and jumper setting. I actually got the 120 gig in safe mode once, saw that it wasn't formatted, but the c and d drives had the same name and drive space (doesn't make sense). I can get all drives to show up in the bios, but not in windows. I don't care about the smallest drive, but my E drive (120 gig) has some files I'd like to get back, if someone wants to crack the case, I will be the happiest man on the block!
Report Offensive Message For Removal
|
|
Response Number 1
|
Name: Clicker
Date: April 4, 2003 at 13:00:03 Pacific
|
Reply: (edit)You many have a master/slave problem. check the jumpers on back of your hard drive.
your main harddrive should be set to master and your backup drive to slave. had this problem once. give it a shot. good luck.
 Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal
|
|
Response Number 2
|
Name: TopFarmer
Date: April 4, 2003 at 15:49:02 Pacific
|
Reply: (edit)need more information what drives are on what ide connector and which ones are master and slave? also run fdisk and check if it see all drives corectly? post back hdd setup and fdisk resaults. if the two other hdds are on the 2nd ide check device mannager and be sure both ides are enabled.
Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal
|
|
Response Number 3
|
Name: Rob
Date: April 4, 2003 at 15:53:00 Pacific
|
Reply: (edit)gotta be the jumpers...if not than maybe your cable has a hole in it. I've had hardrives not show in the bios but show up in Windows (figure that one out) but never have I had happen what you have. I'd sure like to see this one cracked to.
Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal
|
|
Response Number 4
|
Name: Spinal
Date: April 4, 2003 at 16:41:54 Pacific
|
Reply: (edit)Does win98 even support a 120 Gig hard drive? Are u running it off a hard drive controller or straight off ur MB?
Spinal
Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal
|
|
Response Number 5
|
Name: daotynroh
Date: April 4, 2003 at 23:54:47 Pacific
|
Reply: (edit)this seems to be the only way to set er up right now:
c (40 gigs) primary master
d (120 gigs, supported by windows98, it was running before with no partition) secondary master
bios(cmos) detects it, windows does not, and the last thing I want is a partition or format of the drive.
Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal
|
|
Response Number 6
|
Name: daotynroh
Date: April 5, 2003 at 01:10:26 Pacific
|
Reply: (edit)woops, I remembered I installed max blast in order for windows to recognize the drive.
Oh yeah, I'm running from the spine of the mobo, not a pci card.
Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal
|
|
Response Number 7
|
Name: daotynroh
Date: April 5, 2003 at 05:49:21 Pacific
|
Reply: (edit)in dos it says "sec slave drive-ATAPI incopatable
press F1 to resume.
I assume I can install maxblast, but formatting is a very last resort in this case, anyone got any leads?
Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal
|
|
Response Number 8
|
Name: daotynroh
Date: April 5, 2003 at 08:54:10 Pacific
|
Reply: (edit)WOW, I don't really understand why, but I messed around on max blast disk, didn't change the jumpers/ide anything internal, just changed the bios through the disk a little and BAM, the old 120 gig is suddenly back just as it dissapeared.
I really appreciate everyones help and hope to help someone real soon!!!
Report Offensive Follow Up For Removal
|
Use following form to reply to current message:
|
|
|
