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murphyweb

Hi,

I have been having a problem that i have been trying to sort out but i seem to have made a right mess of things, can anyone please help?

My first issue was loading XP onto a '98 machine, it left me with two OS's '98 on my C: drive and XP on D: i have been using only XP for the last year.
In need of more disk space i had a clean up this morning and got rid of all my old progs, junk etc... and also deleted the /Windows folder from my
C: drive (98). PC still worked fine but could not totally format my C drive as still had boot files on it.
(i wanted to format C and use it as a storage disk for movies only). So thinking i was clever i copied the boot files to my D: drive and deleted them from C:, restarted my PC and nothing!!

I swapped my disks around made D: the master, but still no boot.

See the thing is, even before i did this, when i put a rescue CD in and got a DOS prompt i could only get access to one drive, this is what DOS called
C: but was actually D in XP, why does DOS call it C

if it thinks it is C: why can i not boot from it?

I have lost my XP disk, i used the rescue disk from my laptop that got me a DOS prompt but nothing else, i cannot get any DOS commands to work,
have tried the few i know such as FDISK, FORMAT etc.. but nothing.

My D: drive is FAT32, my C: is NFST (not sure if this makes a difference?)

I am hopeful of borrowing an XP CD from someone later to at least get me a proper DOS screen and allow my PC to boot up and i suppose i could
copy back the boot.ini back to C: - but i still would like to fix this problem.

Can? i have windows on one disk and format the other disk for storage use???

Help

Thanks Gary

Bluefish

Hi there,
First thing I should try is booting from a Windows XP CD.
You can then choose R for repair.
Follow the instructions and use the option 'Fixmbr' Fix Master Boot Record
DOS is not recognizing the NTFS disk, it can only read FAT.
So that will make a difference at that point.
Good luck!