Steve Dias wrote:
>
> Helped a friend add a second hard drive to his Packard Bell 486/66 and ran
> into trouble getting the right jumper settings for these old drives. His
> original Seagate 425mb IDE with Win95 on it is master, (one primary dos
> partition, marked active) and a Quantum LPS 245mb we added as slave. Finally
> got slave jumpered right, right settings in setup, fdisked (extended dos
> partition w/ logical drive D:) and formatted. Scandisk reports no problems.
>
> Problem: Every time we reboot, we get an error message "fixed drive has no
> boot sector". Pressing F1 to continue, machine will boot to Win95 on C:,
> both drives are recognized and useable in Windows.

I'm not super familiar with the intricacies of fdisk, but perhaps DOS is
complaining because all of the second drive is an extended DOS
partition? I wonder if it should have been fdisk'ed as a primary
partition. (Not set active, of course.)

Using my system as an example, I have two physical drives, and each has
a primary partition. On the first drive, (C:), the primary partition
takes the whole drive and is set active. On the second drive, (D:), the
primary partition takes 2 GB, and is NOT set active. (Ghost lets you
make two partitions 'active' at once, but warns of DOS incompatibilities
if you do so). Anyway, what's left of the second drive is designated as
an extended DOS partition, and within that extended DOS partition I have
a 2 GB drive, (E:), and a smaller drive, (F:), that I'm using to mirror
C:.

In short, it sounds like DOS is complaining because it sees a physical
drive without a primary partition.

Jeff Delzer