Ok, this may be long and drawn out, so grab a cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and read:
I yanked the HD out of my system, put in another of the same size (30 gig), and also upgraded the processor from a 600 mhz to a 1.0 ghz, and I reloaded the HD with W2K Pro. The prior HD was W2K Pro also, and both are NTFS.
(I know what you are thinking, and I don't need a lot of processor speed).
I figured I would just put the old HD in as a secondary drive on the primary channel (with the appropriate jumpers), that didn't work, and I also tried it as the secondary on the secondary channel, and also as the primary on the secondary channel, neither worked.
What's happening is that it is either not recognizing the C drive at all on this HD, or it sees it as an unformatted drive and asks me if I want to format it (no). What is strange is that the old HD was partitioned into a C and E drive (CD-Rom is the D), and I got it to read the E drive, but not the C.
I was thinking about just putting the old drive back in, and trying to reload just Windows (in 'repair' mode), but I just don't want to lose some of the stuff I have on the C. Losing it won't kill me, I backed up my 'important' stuff, but I have a few other things I'd like to recover, and this should not be this hard. I DID try just hooking up the old drive on the primary by itself, and Windows must not like the new CPU, I get a 'reload NTOSKRNL' message. And yes, I have several ERD disks and other disks I have made to try and boot from, no luck.
Anyone have any ideas on what to try next ?
I yanked the HD out of my system, put in another of the same size (30 gig), and also upgraded the processor from a 600 mhz to a 1.0 ghz, and I reloaded the HD with W2K Pro. The prior HD was W2K Pro also, and both are NTFS.
(I know what you are thinking, and I don't need a lot of processor speed).
I figured I would just put the old HD in as a secondary drive on the primary channel (with the appropriate jumpers), that didn't work, and I also tried it as the secondary on the secondary channel, and also as the primary on the secondary channel, neither worked.
What's happening is that it is either not recognizing the C drive at all on this HD, or it sees it as an unformatted drive and asks me if I want to format it (no). What is strange is that the old HD was partitioned into a C and E drive (CD-Rom is the D), and I got it to read the E drive, but not the C.
I was thinking about just putting the old drive back in, and trying to reload just Windows (in 'repair' mode), but I just don't want to lose some of the stuff I have on the C. Losing it won't kill me, I backed up my 'important' stuff, but I have a few other things I'd like to recover, and this should not be this hard. I DID try just hooking up the old drive on the primary by itself, and Windows must not like the new CPU, I get a 'reload NTOSKRNL' message. And yes, I have several ERD disks and other disks I have made to try and boot from, no luck.
Anyone have any ideas on what to try next ?
