What type of system do you have?  The reason I ask is that I recently purchased
a Western Digital 8.4GB HD but my bios was not upgradeable and special software
has to be loaded during boot-up for all of the HD and partitions to be
recognized.  When I first used the Win98 boot disk, I had a similar problem as
you, until I modified the boot disk to look to the special software.  Now
everything is fine when I use it. Was there any special installation software
when you added the HD?  Just a thought...

Regards,
Kris

Changhsu Liu wrote:

> I bought a IBM 14GB HD and it created 4 partitions with Partition magic.
> The first partition is in FAT16 while the rest in FAT32. It works fine
> under Windows 98. There were 2 occassions so far that the whole 13GB HD
> disappeared and when I checked with Partition Magic, it showed up as 2
> volumes One appeared as Type 41 (or 44 I don't quite remember now) with
> volume name unknown (10MB only). The other appeared as Free Space but it
> has only 717MB. The rest of space is gone. I have to use Ontrack Disk
> Manager (downloaded from IBM) to reset everything from scratch. (It took a
> while to recreate all partitions under Partition magic.)
>
> The first time this happened was when I tried to boot from a Win95 boot
> disk. The second time was when I tried to install NT Server 4 from a
> partition in FAT32 (by copying the CD to HD). I suspect that win95 boot
> disk was created in Win95A so it didn't understand FAT32. NT Server 4 was
> installed fine since I reboot to DOS under Win98, but after it rebooted to
> finish the installation, it couldn't read FAT32. What I don't understand is
> why the partition were all deleted when there were an error occured. While
> my other drive (with Win98 on it) has a partition in FAT32 and that
> partition was fine when this happened. I am afraid that I might have missed
> something in installation. I have already lost 1 hour work which was saved
> in one of the partitions lost.
>
> Any suggestions? Should I format them differently?
>
> Thanks for the help and have a nice and productive new year....
>
> Changhsu Liu
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