Did you disconnect the 80GB driver completely to see if the 40GB (original
drive) is still unbootable?  Maybe try setting it to single drive, instead
of master, when it is the sole drive, if that is an option.

John Sproule


----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Thompson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 2:35 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Lost Partitions on Two HDD's


> The 40GB...Pri Dos with 4 logical drives
> Win ME on C:, along with D:,E:, & F: drives.
> C: was active.
> This was working fine.
>
> However, on the 80GB...
> After creating drives G thru M (in the Ext dos partition) and exiting
FDISK*, I was prompted to shutdown before
> formatting the drives, as expected. I removed the boot disk in A:, then
shut down. (oops?) Upon reboot she looked
> at A:, then HD 0, and on to CD-ROM for the OS - "Boot disk failure: insert
system disk..."
> Once at A: I'm getting 'invalid drive specification' for all drives.
> FDISK shows no drives defined on either HDD.
> During post, both HDD's names are just strange characters - they were fine
before**

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