Daniel,

I think it's a safe bet that there is a drive overlay involved here.
(clues are: 6 years old with partioning & EZ Drive can "see" it)

The simplest solution is to put everything back as it was and install the
new drive where ever it fits.  Now move the data from the old drive to the
new one. Then rearrange things as you want.

Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel G. Smith <[log in to unmask]>


> Unable to access data on hard drive
>
> I'll try to give the short version of my problem:
> You really may want to draw this out to see it.
>
> Previously, I had 2 hard drives- drive one was C:, drive 2 partitioned
> into D: and E:.Bought a new hard drive- it is the master on the
> primary idea cable partitioned as the new C: drive and F: drive
> (it chose F:) with the old D: and E: partitioned hard drive as the
> slave. The old C: drive is now the D: drive on the secondary IDE
> cable as the master,  with the cd-rom as the slave- both of those are
> working fine. The problem is the old D: / E: drive that is now the
> slave on the primary IDEA drive - I can't access the data!
>
> Don't ask about backup - I have a backup - it's not working right
> now as I am waiting for a new win 98 compatible board from Iomega
> that has been back ordered - yes, that's wonderful!
>
> Explorer shows the old D: / E: drive as E: only - and only shows one
> file on it- command.com
> the same from dos prompt BUT I think the data is still there and
> possibly accessible as when I had given up and was going to reformat
> it and went to use the EZ Drive program and chose it to reformat it the
> EZDrive program showed the directory of the hard drive so I
> abandoned the reformatting hoping to access the data somehow.
>

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