drive d: mystery

[dbarton]

I have a hard drive formatted under win 95b on that same 95b machine.

It's installed as master on the secondary IDE channel.

If I boot to win95b DOS, I can see the drive and all is good.

If I boot to win95, I dont see that drive, can't switch to it, even in a DOS shell. It gives an invalid drive error.

Weird & I'm stumped.

 

[Zepper]

How many drive letters (partitions) do you have on your first drive? Perhaps you need to add the line - Lastdrive=Z to your config.sys file. Though it is very unusual that DOS can see it an Win can't.
. Check your DeviceManager and look at the hard drive controller listing. See if any errors are showing. If you have yellow error messages on both controllers, it is possible that you have a boot sector virus. If so, boot from a known-clean boot diskette and run a virus scan, (one can be DL'd from www.trendmicro.com) - go to the pc-cillin page - find the emergency cleaner dl. Needs 7 diskettes, or just run FDISK /MBR from a known-clean boot.
. See if the secondary controller is listed. If not, run IDE driver from your chipset mfr.
. Go into your BIOS setup to be sure the secondary IDE channel has been activated. If you don't find something above that works, I'd probably be stumped too.
.bh.

 

[dbarton]

See if the secondary controller is listed. If not, run IDE driver from your chipset mfr.

I only see:

1. primary IDE
2. standard dual IDE

I think you hit the solution! Very good!!!

This would make it work in DOS, but not windows..

 

[kd7fhd]

quote: "I have a hard drive formatted under win 95b on that same 95b machine."


if it is formatted as FAT32 win95a will never see it as it was the last of the windows versions to operate only with FAT16.

the only cure is to fdisk and create a fat16 partition.

 

[dbarton]

Thanks!

No it's 95b, on that machine, and all is working now.