cwolfe98
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Well,,, I've done it now!
I have an old 2GB HD and a new 40GB HD. I have been using both for a while. I am running win 98se on the 2GB HD and I was running WIN2000 pro and Server on the 40GB HD.
Well, I decided to get rid of the WIN 2000 stuff for now, and ghost my Win 98 image on the 40GB HD. I reformatted the two partitions with the WIN 2000 stuff and then ghosted the WIN 98 image to another unused partition. Now I made sure that the partitions are all FAT 32 b/c Win98 cannot "see" the NTFS partitions. Now I cannot boot to the 40GB HD Win 98 image. Nothing happens. I have checked the jumper settings, tried it with and without the old HD plugged in. (Master / Slave / etc...)
Now to make things worse I used a utility tool disk to rewrite the boot sector of the 40GB HD. ( I think it wrote to the whole disk, not to the partition I wanted.) -- That did not fix anything.. oops!
Now when I boot up to the old Win 98se 2GB HD. Everything still works, but I cannot "see" the 40GB HD at all.
I would really like to get Win 98se on the 40GB HD and not use the old HD at all. (I think it is dying ... ) I do have a partition on the 40GB HD that I do not want to lose. I did not touch that partition when reformatting and trying to get this working. It has most of my programs that I run on it, as well as a lot of misc important info. So totally reformatting the 40GB HD is not an option.
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance.

-Charles
I have an old 2GB HD and a new 40GB HD. I have been using both for a while. I am running win 98se on the 2GB HD and I was running WIN2000 pro and Server on the 40GB HD.
Well, I decided to get rid of the WIN 2000 stuff for now, and ghost my Win 98 image on the 40GB HD. I reformatted the two partitions with the WIN 2000 stuff and then ghosted the WIN 98 image to another unused partition. Now I made sure that the partitions are all FAT 32 b/c Win98 cannot "see" the NTFS partitions. Now I cannot boot to the 40GB HD Win 98 image. Nothing happens. I have checked the jumper settings, tried it with and without the old HD plugged in. (Master / Slave / etc...)
Now to make things worse I used a utility tool disk to rewrite the boot sector of the 40GB HD. ( I think it wrote to the whole disk, not to the partition I wanted.) -- That did not fix anything.. oops!
Now when I boot up to the old Win 98se 2GB HD. Everything still works, but I cannot "see" the 40GB HD at all.
I would really like to get Win 98se on the 40GB HD and not use the old HD at all. (I think it is dying ... ) I do have a partition on the 40GB HD that I do not want to lose. I did not touch that partition when reformatting and trying to get this working. It has most of my programs that I run on it, as well as a lot of misc important info. So totally reformatting the 40GB HD is not an option.
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance.
-Charles