Sys C: and Lost D drive

Recently, I tranfer the old Window 98 4.3 GB hard drive to the new
computer. Originally, the new PC can't see the Hard drive and it shows
"Invalid system disk",so I loaded the 98 startup disk and typed the
command "Sys c:".
Now the new PC can see the Hard disk, but only the C drive, not the D
and E drive
I took out the old Hard drive and put it in my friend's XP PC as a
secondary drive . His XP machine can see all of the paritions.

Question: How can I make the new computer to see all of the partition ?

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| Recently, I tranfer the old Window 98 4.3 GB hard drive to the new
| computer.

How? Did you replace the Master or make it a Slave? Did you get the
jumpers right? Sometimes, when adding a Slave, the original Master must
be rejumpered too, especially if it is a Western Digital. It must be
rejumpered to "Master with Slave".

| Originally, the new PC can't see the Hard drive and it shows
| "Invalid system disk",so I loaded the 98 startup disk and typed the
| command "Sys c:".

This will copy certain system files (IO.sys, Command.com & perhaps
MSDOS.sys) from the Startup Diskette to C:\. (It also sets the BPB drive
number to HD0, so that it is now in the bootstrap. It does so, no matter
whether it is HD0.

So... sounds like you tried to boot it, made it a Master. Still, you
must get the jumper right.

| Now the new PC can see the Hard disk, but only the C drive, not the D
| and E drive

Show us...

(1) "START button, Run, MSInfo32". Use CTRL-Mouse to highlight relevant
info & the Edit menu to Copy it...

Windows-managed swap file on drive C (6458MB free)
Available space on drive C: 6458MB of 7979MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive D: 6232MB of 7979MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive E: 773MB of 2792MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive F: 7979MB of 7979MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive G: 7786MB of 7979MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive H: 7620MB of 7979MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive I: 6174MB of 6174MB (FAT32)

(2)
(a) "START button, Programs, MS-DOS Prompt"
(b) FDISK /Status
(c) Use the "MARK", outline text with mouse, "COPY" button to post the
results.

C:\FDISK /Status
Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage
1 19092 8298 57%
C: 7996
E: 2798
2 38169 100% Full drive
D: 7996 One partition
F: 7996
G: 7996
H: 7996
I: 6187

| I took out the old Hard drive and put it in my friend's XP PC as a
| secondary drive . His XP machine can see all of the paritions.

What created the other partitions? Can they be a type Win98 will not
see, such as NTFS?

|
| Question: How can I make the new computer to see all of the partition
?
|

On 21 Sep 2005 15:00:39 -0700, put finger to
keyboard and composed:

Recently, I tranfer the old Window 98 4.3 GB hard drive to the new
computer. Originally, the new PC can't see the Hard drive and it shows
"Invalid system disk",so I loaded the 98 startup disk and typed the
command "Sys c:".
Now the new PC can see the Hard disk, but only the C drive, not the D
and E drive
I took out the old Hard drive and put it in my friend's XP PC as a
secondary drive . His XP machine can see all of the paritions.

Question: How can I make the new computer to see all of the partition ?

Was the 4.3GB HD your original master drive? If not, then the first
partition may not have been formatted with the /S switch, which means
that the command interpreter (command.com ) would not have been
installed. SYSing would have corrected this.

Do you see all partitions if you type "fdisk /status" after loading
your startup diskette? At the moment my 13GB HD looks like this:

================================================== ================
Fixed Disk Drive Status
Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage
1 12417 5247 58%
C: 3075
D: 4095

(1 MByte = 1048576 bytes)
================================================== ================

How are your IDE devices configured in your BIOS setup? Auto? User? If
for any reason the numbers of heads/cylinders/sectors have been set
manually (in either machine), then the 4.3GB drive's geometry may not
match. If this is the case, then writing to the drive may damage its
filesystem.

If things get serious, you can see the partition structure using a
small DOS utility (160KB) that you can copy to your startup diskette:

http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/downloads/MBRtool.zip

Use the following command string to display the MBR of the first hard
drive:

mbrtool /dsp /dsk:0

My HD looks like this:

================================================== ================
Geometry values (from BIOS!) for this disk : (C/H/S) - 1022/254/63

Partition Table Information

ACT TYPE START-C/H/S END----C/H/S LBA-start LBA-length
Entry 1: 128 0B 0 1 1 391 254 63 63 6297417
Entry 2: 0 0B 392 0 1 913 254 63 6297480 8385930
Entry 3: 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Entry 4: 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Partition table as shown in MBR :
Entry 1: 80 01 01 00 0B FE 7F 87 3F 00 00 00 49 17 60 00
Entry 2: 00 00 41 88 0B FE FF 91 88 17 60 00 8A F5 7F 00
Entry 3: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Entry 4: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
================================================== ================

-- Franc Zabkar

Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Try this: Put the drive back in the W98 machine, and boot with a DOS
floppy. What partitions do you see?

You can't necessarily move a drive between machines without
re-partitioning - usually it's OK, but not always. I suspect that what's
happening is that the new machine sees the disk well enough to show you the
first partition, but not well enough to be able to get information about the
other partitions. The fact that it didn't work at first is the clue. When
you use the drive in the new machine, do a SCANDISK and see if the partition
you can see really is being accessed properly. Don't allow SCANDISK to fix
anything - just check that the partition really is OK
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
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Recently, I tranfer the old Window 98 4.3 GB hard drive to the new
computer. Originally, the new PC can't see the Hard drive and it shows
"Invalid system disk",so I loaded the 98 startup disk and typed the
command "Sys c:".
Now the new PC can see the Hard disk, but only the C drive, not the D
and E drive
I took out the old Hard drive and put it in my friend's XP PC as a
secondary drive . His XP machine can see all of the paritions.

Question: How can I make the new computer to see all of the partition ?