Hi,
Here is a curly one!  Im not sure if it belongs in the software or
hardware list..

My hard drives were as follows:
HDD - 17 gig consisting of partitions: C:, E:,F:
HDD - 2.1 gig consisting of                 D:

I installed Adaptec "Go Back 2.2" and when it rebooted after
installation it said somehting  about not working properly with one of
the drives (it didnt state which) I suspect it was D:
Once I waded through all the error messages (which I didnt record) I
discovered that many things didnt work, fonts seemed to be missing from
some programmes, and I was one hard drive short in explorer.  It turned
out that D: had dissapeared from my system and E had become D.  F had
become E and so on.  As most of my programmes are installed on E: (now
D:) not  much works properly as links from the operating system on C:
are broken.  I removed "Go Back".
Both cds seem to work, tho I havent tried burning as the software
probably will have to be reinstalled.

Now just to clarify, the computer was not even touched let alone bumped
or opened in this time, so it seems unlikely to be a cable problem.

I rebooted several times... no luck.  I booted in dos and still the
former drive D: was not showing. However at the beginning of the boot
cycle when the computer lists the PnP devices and drives it shows both
physical hard drives and both cds Which leads me to believe that the
missing drive is working but the opperating system isn't seeing it.

The missing drive is listed under control panel Device manager, as
Generic IDE disk type 80, but no drive letter is assigned to it,  the
area to enter a drive letter there is greyed out.
Is there a way to Reassign a drive letter to this drive?
What else can I do to get access to the drive again?

my system;
win 98
AMD k6-2 - 400, overclocked to 450
Primary master 17gig HDD, 3 partitions
Secondary master 2.1 gig HDD
Primary slave cd 48x aopen
Secondary slave cd Ricoh cdr-rw
64 meg ram
voodoo2 3D card
soundblaster16  card
ethernet card


Any help would be appreciated
Thanks:
Leigh Jennings,  [log in to unmask]

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