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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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Could someone make head or tails of this
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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 |
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Could someone make head or tails of this
"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 |
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Could someone make head or tails of this
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? |
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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? -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "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. |
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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! |
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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.. |
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Could someone make head or tails of this
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. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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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 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. |
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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. |
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