Hi there,
Made the 98 boot disk. Typed in the command line and got error messages.
CDR101 Not Ready reading D: drive. I put in exactly what you had said, but
it gave an error on D:
Also same error on reading E:. F: drive gave Invalid.
Upon further investigation, after trying to run a reformat again, I now see
Drives C: and F: instead of C: and D:. Therefore reformat cancelled. Is it
possible to re-map F: to D:? Is it also possible to recover the data on the
D: drive (backup)?
Both drives are showing as Healthy (under Administration). One is System,
the other is blank.
Thanks in advance for suggestions on what else I can try.
Lynn
"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
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> "Lynn" <manxcatq@msn.com> wrote in message
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> > Hi there,
> >
> > Well, if there's a problem, I'll find it, but this is a new and
extremely
> > exasparating one for me.
> >
> > Just reformatted my C: Drive with Windows XP Pro. After installing a few
> > bits of software for hardware from disk (Nero, Monitor, Fax Modem) I
then
> > discovered that I was missing my 2nd hard disk drive (normally assigned
as
> > D
. I then find that my CD-ROM and DVD drives have the incorrect
letters
> > mapped to them. Both hard drives are internal. No external drives
here.
> >
> > Upon checking in Control Panel... System,... I see the two hard drives
are
> > present (both in Safe and Normal mode). However, the one drive ST340214A
> has
> > Disable as an option, whereas the other hard drive, ST360015A has no
> Disable
> > feature.
> >
> > How do I tell the system to map my 2nd hard drive (which I think is the
> 15A)
> > back to being D: drive? The CD-ROM is currently D: (should be E:, and
the
> > DVD drive is currently E: (should be F:. The C: and A: drives are both
> > correct (main hard disk C: and 1.44 MB Floppy A:.
> >
> > I have never personally seen this problem before and really have no idea
> on
> > how to proceed so I would really appreciate guidance here.
> >
> > What would happen if I reformat again? Would the 2nd hard disk
re-appear?
> I
> > need that disk drive back as it has a few years of data stored on it
which
> I
> > need! I know I reformatted the (correct) C: drive.
> >
> > As yet, I have only re-formatted C:, and then put on the software for my
> fax
> > modem, Nero/InCD, then NVidia graphics card drivers, and lastly the
> monitor.
> > No printer or scanner software installed (not connected yet), and
> definitely
> > didn't reach my XP Pro SP2 disk!
> >
> > I'd really appreciate help here please! Thanks to you all in hopeful
> > anticipation of solving the problem here.
> >
> > TTFN...
> >
> > Lynn
>
> Your first check must be to watch your BIOS messages
> early during the boot phase. Can you see both disks?
>
> The next step should be to find out if the file structure
> on your second disk is intact. Here is how to do it:
> 1. Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com.
> 2. Run this command: ntfsdos /L:MNOP
> 3. Check if you can see your files and folders on drives M:, N:, O: or P:.
>
>