Could someone make head or tails of this

I have a desktop that had 2 hd's and a cd rom. The hd's were connected
via the 80 pin ribbon from the Pri IDE connector, with the second hd
as slave. I just bought another hd, its formatted and partitioned. In
order to make it my master hd, I disconnected the other hd
completely..power plug and ribbon. I just never removed it from the
system. Now on the disconnected one I had 3 partitions, some with data
and the remmants of OS. When booting the system, I see 'those
partitions' shown on my new hd. How is this possible? Now, I'm nervous
to do anything with that hd, for fear I may lose what is on those other
partitions. ..and yet, those partitions were on the disconnected hd.

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completely..power plug and ribbon. I just never removed it from the
system. Now on the disconnected one I had 3 partitions, some with data
and the remmants of OS. When booting the system, I see 'those
partitions' shown on my new hd. How is this possible? Now, I'm nervous
to do anything with that hd, for fear I may lose what is on those other
partitions. ..and yet, those partitions were on the disconnected hd.
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you CANNOT see partitions on a drive that's disconnected!

the partitions you see can ONLY be on the drives conneced to the machine

"philo" wrote in message
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completely..power plug and ribbon. I just never removed it from the
system. Now on the disconnected one I had 3 partitions, some with data
and the remmants of OS. When booting the system, I see 'those
partitions' shown on my new hd. How is this possible? Now, I'm nervous
to do anything with that hd, for fear I may lose what is on those other
partitions. ..and yet, those partitions were on the disconnected hd.
\

you CANNOT see partitions on a drive that's disconnected!

the partitions you see can ONLY be on the drives conneced to the machine


One would assume the wrong hard drive was disconnected.

Galen

philo wrote:
snip

completely..power plug and ribbon. I just never removed it from the
system. Now on the disconnected one I had 3 partitions, some with data
and the remmants of OS. When booting the system, I see 'those
partitions' shown on my new hd. How is this possible? Now, I'm nervous
to do anything with that hd, for fear I may lose what is on those other
partitions. ..and yet, those partitions were on the disconnected hd.
\

you CANNOT see partitions on a drive that's disconnected!


the partitions you see can ONLY be on the drives conneced to the
machine

That is my whole point of my post..so then maybe you can tell me how
come I'm reading those partitions on the new hd?

I think you need to be clearer about the drives and provide additional
information. How do you have the drives jumpered, cable select or
master/slave? If A drive is the one that was the master and B drive was the
slave drive, which one did you disconnect and have you checked to make sure
you unconnected the right drive? How many partitions are on A drive, B
drive and the new (C) drive? Where did you connect C drive, is it the
master and does it have a system installed on it?

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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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"Noel8" wrote in message
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I have a desktop that had 2 hd's and a cd rom. The hd's were connected
via the 80 pin ribbon from the Pri IDE connector, with the second hd
as slave. I just bought another hd, its formatted and partitioned. In
order to make it my master hd, I disconnected the other hd
completely..power plug and ribbon. I just never removed it from the
system. Now on the disconnected one I had 3 partitions, some with data
and the remmants of OS. When booting the system, I see 'those
partitions' shown on my new hd. How is this possible? Now, I'm nervous
to do anything with that hd, for fear I may lose what is on those other
partitions. ..and yet, those partitions were on the disconnected hd.

Galen Somerville wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
...
snip

completely..power plug and ribbon. I just never removed it from the
system. Now on the disconnected one I had 3 partitions, some with data
and the remmants of OS. When booting the system, I see 'those
partitions' shown on my new hd. How is this possible? Now, I'm nervous
to do anything with that hd, for fear I may lose what is on those other
partitions. ..and yet, those partitions were on the disconnected hd.
\

you CANNOT see partitions on a drive that's disconnected!

the partitions you see can ONLY be on the drives conneced to the machine


One would assume the wrong hard drive was disconnected.

Galen


BUT IT WASN'T!

the partitions you see can ONLY be on the drives conneced to the
machine

That is my whole point of my post..so then maybe you can tell me how
come I'm reading those partitions on the new hd?


very simple...
the partitions you see are on the drive connected to the computer..

Noel8 wrote:
I have a desktop that had 2 hd's and a cd rom. The hd's were connected
via the 80 pin ribbon from the Pri IDE connector, with the second hd
as slave. I just bought another hd, its formatted and partitioned. In
order to make it my master hd, I disconnected the other hd
completely..power plug and ribbon. I just never removed it from the
system. Now on the disconnected one I had 3 partitions, some with data
and the remmants of OS. When booting the system, I see 'those
partitions' shown on my new hd. How is this possible? Now, I'm nervous
to do anything with that hd, for fear I may lose what is on those
other partitions. ..and yet, those partitions were on the
disconnected hd.

You had two drives on the primary IDE channel. You disconnected one,
connected a new drive and see partitions that shouldn't be there, right?
Disconnect the second old drive too and the partitions will disappear. IOW,
you disconnected the wrong old drive. Sounds like you may have had them
jumpered incorrectly too.


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In addition to supplying the further details Ron Badour requested, also tell us
exactly how you went about partitioning and formatting the new drive. If you used
the software that often comes with a new drive on a bootable floppy diskette, you
may have copied the partitions from the old drive to the new during the process.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Noel8" wrote in message
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I have a desktop that had 2 hd's and a cd rom. The hd's were connected
via the 80 pin ribbon from the Pri IDE connector, with the second hd
as slave. I just bought another hd, its formatted and partitioned. In
order to make it my master hd, I disconnected the other hd
completely..power plug and ribbon. I just never removed it from the
system. Now on the disconnected one I had 3 partitions, some with data
and the remmants of OS. When booting the system, I see 'those
partitions' shown on my new hd. How is this possible? Now, I'm nervous
to do anything with that hd, for fear I may lose what is on those other
partitions. ..and yet, those partitions were on the disconnected hd.

glee wrote:
In addition to supplying the further details Ron Badour requested, also tell us
exactly how you went about partitioning and formatting the new drive. If you used
the software that often comes with a new drive on a bootable floppy diskette, you
may have copied the partitions from the old drive to the new during the process.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Noel8" wrote in message
oups.com...
I have a desktop that had 2 hd's and a cd rom. The hd's were connected
via the 80 pin ribbon from the Pri IDE connector, with the second hd
as slave. I just bought another hd, its formatted and partitioned. In
order to make it my master hd, I disconnected the other hd
completely..power plug and ribbon. I just never removed it from the
system. Now on the disconnected one I had 3 partitions, some with data
and the remmants of OS. When booting the system, I see 'those
partitions' shown on my new hd. How is this possible? Now, I'm nervous
to do anything with that hd, for fear I may lose what is on those other
partitions. ..and yet, those partitions were on the disconnected hd.


I need to apologize...upon looking at the innards of my computer again,
I indeed attached the ribbon to the wrong hd. Don't know how I could of
been so stupid, almost a shame to admit it...sorry for all those who
tried to assist me with the wrong info I supplied...That said....I made
sure this time that it was hooked up to the new drive and partitioned
and formatted again. Installed win98se and all went smoothly until I
had to start tweaking my system for the components that I omitted when
windows was asking me during installation of new hardware...I turned it
down. I figured let me get this version to work before I add my
printer,modems and etc. The first thing I did add was audio. Okay. Then
I upgraded directx. Win98 had 4.01 vers so I upgraded it with my
motherboard cd to 8.1 and now we come to the one that continues to give
me a problem on installing this OS...the display settings. I had only
16 bit shown and directx says I need at least 256 color. So I went to
adapter and installed my win98 version of my video card. Upon
rebooting, it goes to safe mode. I can't seem to remove the driver. I
go to Device manager and remove, I go to regedit and remove driver
there, and when i reboot as suggested by windows, it starts with
'windows saying it has found new hardware and then the name of my video
card and it goes right into reinstalling it again. I can't even update
the default monitor reading, at times the monitor tag is there and now
it only shows adapter tag. I cannot get beyond this.