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Invalid drive specification
Name: Will Montellgro Date: November 26, 1999 at 13:37:37 Pacific
Comment:
cannot read drive gives invalid drive specification, dirve is slave drive it will read my master drive...need help to read slve drive
Name: ironman28 Date: November 26, 1999 at 14:19:02 Pacific
Reply:
di you recently install the secondary drive? did you goto the bios and autaodetect the drives
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Response Number 2
Name: Al Date: November 26, 1999 at 16:34:12 Pacific
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Will, You will get this message if drive is not yet partitioned. Boot from your startup floppy, type FDISK, enter enter 5 to change drives, 4 to veiw partition information. Al
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Response Number 3
Name: Will Date: November 26, 1999 at 19:41:53 Pacific
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I had both drives working fine for about a year, now it cannot find the slave....
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Response Number 4
Name: J Date: November 26, 1999 at 19:59:07 Pacific
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Did you check to see if one of the ide cables came loose somehow?
I formatted my c:\ drive and when I go to use my Master CD to format my hard drive when I boot my system I get the error message (Invalid Drive Specification). The system also states that c:\ cannot find the directory c:\ it may be full.
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Response Number 6
Name: george Date: August 6, 2000 at 13:40:13 Pacific
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i have an old comp and recently installed a cdrom. i took out the really old floppy drive and eversince then i cant get onto the c:\. when it comes to the dos command prompt, it says non-system disk or disk error-then i put a disk that had a virus scan in it. it gets me to the command prompt but i cant to anything from there. I downloaded ms dos 5.0 and win 3.1 to try that, but when i tried to setup ms dos from the command prompt it says to restart the comp with the disk in but the whole non-system disk thing comes up again. when i type in fdisk it says its the incorrect dos version. when the comp is just stating, you can go to setup-in there i looked at the bios but all it says is enable\disable bios shadow. I know its complicated but does anybody have any ideas about what i should do? please help!
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