not good not good not good...

[Wolf_Demon]

my computer stopped booting from my hard drive, so i had to make my secondary one my master. and when i go to "My Computer" it doesn't see my windows partition on the other hard drive. i downloaded a few utilities that supposedly recovers lost partitions, but they already see the partition. i boot from the Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools and that also shows that the partition is there...is there a way i can get the partition back?

[big poppa pump]

What kind if error message do you get when you try booting from the corrupted drive??

[Wolf_Demon]

there is no error message at all. it just sits there and does absolutely nothing after it checks the cd drives for boot cds.

[Commander X800]

do this,

1.turn off your pc

2. unplug ever device and card other than video and your hdd.

3.start your comp back up with just ta video card and hdd installed (also with ram and cpu you know that sort of thing, no modesm or nics or any other cd/dvd drives attacted)

4.see if it will post and boot to windows form your primary install... with the other partion to non active (the second one you made)

If not then its not a hadware conflict or at lest not a normal one meaning that your first partion is ether, A not set to active for some reason, or B corrupt.

[Wolf_Demon]

hmm, well i'm using a completely different hard drive right now, with the one with the messed up partition as the slave. but i'll try what you said with this hard drive disconnected.

[Wolf_Demon]

hmm...it didn't work

[spazmire11]

dose windows see the drive?

try going into computer manegement from admistrative tools

and then goo to the disk manegment screen and see if it sees the drive

if it dose i would try a repair windows install on it

[Wolf_Demon]

i don't have windows xp. the hard drive that i'm using is windows 98, and the hard drive with the messed up windows partition is windows 2000.

[Zxian]

What does XP have to do with it? Win2K will do that fine for you as well.

Can you load Win2K on the good drive to get the computer management? Troubleshooting this in Win98 would probably just be a nightmare.

[Technoguy]

can u access that partition when the disk is on secondary?what i suggest is just transfer all data from that partition.then delete the partition thru partition magic and recreate it

[Redcloud]

Did you check your bios setup? If you have a secondary drive and remove it, then replace it, the bios defaults back to "none".

[Wolf_Demon]

well it seems that something went bad in the partition and i had to reformat it, so i have to start from scratch.