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hey i am having a problem with my ms-dos. i recently had problems tryin to upgrade to win 2000 but failed. and now i am back at win98se, and the drive was formated. everything in windows is fine, but when i start the computer with the boot disk (ms-dos mode) it says i have partition problems and says "volume in drive c: is ms-ramdrive" and when i type 'c: dir' it only has the system files in it and nothing else not even the windows folder?? anyone know whats going on?
your post is very vague.
what drive letter is assigned to the windows partition??sounds like you need to start over and setup the drive properly
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Ramdrive is being seen as c: because the bootdisk can't see the harddrive. kkk is correct...time to fdisk and format.
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but i've done that already. thats how i lost everything. but how come its working perfectly in windows? no problems
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What the hell am I saying! You can't fdisk a drive that doesn't exist. Check and see if you harddrive is recognized in bios.
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Are you saying Me or 98se works just fine? Which OS do you have...98se or Me that's "working perfectly"?
You may be talking about nothing more than a crappy bootdisk here.
You have a P3 450Mhz/128Mb running 98se or Me; right?
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runnign windows 98se, but i think i am using a ME bootdisk. does it matter? i thought ms-dos is the same for all of them?
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HI all
If I read your post correctly, that you can boot into Win98 OK but if when you try booting via the floppy drive you can not read the hdd correctly. agree with SkipCox you need a different bootfloppy.
you can make a new one when in Win98 by going to control panal--add/remove programs--startup disk.
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98 and Me do use different versions of DOS, but that's not the issue here...something is not right with that Me bootdisk you're using.
If you could zip that disk and mail it to me, I'd like to see what's on it.
Skip
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ok i'll make a win98 bootdisk and give it ago. but some how i feel its got somethign to do with the windows 2000 installation changing the disk to ntfs and failed. also i got a new western digital hard drive and needs something called dynamic drive overlay for it to work. so that might have soemthign to do with i, dunno??
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It sounds as though an NTFS partition is at work ~somewhere~ in this equation.
"If you could zip that (boot)disk and mail it to me, I'd like to see what's on it."
I agree. Provide Skip Cox with that info. If MS-Ramdrive is being assigned, the primary drive is not being "seen". Interesting indeed.
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HI all
reading post #10 might change problem. you say you have new hdd. do you have it connected to the comp along with the other drive that you tryied to install win2000 ?
Just what hdd you have connected, what IDE channel and master/slave jumpers.
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i've tried the win98 boot disk but the same thing happen. this is my only hard drive i've replaced the old one and settings are correct and it worked before. the problem started when i try to upgrade to windows 2000 but failed. i think skipcox and dan is right. it does say something about not having a boot partition and its NTFS or something. although in windows it says its FAT32
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