I still want to go back to the question of "Why" you were installing =
over the top of the original installation. But we can get to that later.

In BIOS, make sure that the 20 GB is visible and correctly detected. =
Make sure it is the Primary Master. Then look for the Boot Order item =
and make sure it reads:

1. Floppy (or CDROM)
2. CDROM (or Floppy)
3. HDD0
4. No other devices.

You don't want it looking for HDD1 if it can't find a bootable partition =
on HDD0.

Try that and tell us what happens.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
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"Mathers" wrote in message =
...
Sorry about that. I didn't understand your question before. I have two =

seperate drives. No partitions. I was attempting to reinstall over a =
previous=20
version. Drive C was a 20 gb for system files, Drive D was 80 gb for =
files,=20
docs, music, etc.. I set the 80gb as the primary slave when I =
installed it a=20
few months ago. It put the new os on this 80gb drive and now boots =
from this=20
drive. I would like it to boot from the 20 gb drive and dump the os =
off the=20
80 gb drive. Does this info explain better?
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"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:
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You still haven't answered all of my questions. For the sake of =
simplicity, we'll call them Old C and New C.
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1. Are these "drives" two partitions on the same physical hard =
drive? Or are they actually two different drives? If they are two =
different drives, how are they arranged? I assume one is Primary Master. =
Which one? The other is what, Secondary Master or Primary Slave?
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2. Are you attempting to install Windows over the top of a previous =
installation on Old C? Or did you reformat it?
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3. Why are you reinstalling? What error(s) led you to decide to =
reinstall?
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Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
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"Mathers" wrote in message =
...
Somehow my drive letters were switched and what was the old D: =
became the new=20
C: and I didn't know it. When I run FDISK, will I lose any info =
from the=20
drive that I am making inactive? Any problems I should be aware =
of? Thanks!
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"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:
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I'm having difficulty deciphering your message. Windows 98, =
whichever one you have booted to, is *always* on C:\ drive. In order for =
your machine to boot to that drive, it must be the Active drive. If you =
have another Win98 system installed to what is now your D:\ drive, and =
want that to be the boot drive, you have to use a Windows Startup floppy =
boot, run FDISK, and make that partition Active. Then when you boot to =
that Windows, it will be the new C:\ drive.
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Why did you think you had to reinstall Windows? What else is on =
the current C:\ drive besides the new Windows installation? If there's =
nothing else, you can reformat that drive. If there was other stuff, and =
you can fix things to boot to the old system, you can then delete the =
Windows folder and the Program Files folder (provided you didn't already =
have a Program Files folder there.)
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Do you actually have two different hard drives, or only two =
partitions on one drive?
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Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
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"Mathers" wrote in message =
...
How can I uninstall win 98se from a second drive. Had to =
reinstall win98 and=20
it flip flopped my drive letters and the new os was put on the =
wrong drive.=20
Now this is the drive it boots up in. Old c drive is now the =
new d drive.=20
What the hell? Just want it back to booting up in the =
origional config.=20
Thanks!