Getting 2nd drive to show up with Disk Wizard after Win98 reinstall
I have a PC with a 6 GB boot drive (Seagate) and a 40 GB second drive (ST340016A) which was installed with Disk Wizard as the Award BIOS didn't support the full size. The boot drive also ran Ontrack software (Disk Manager?) to enable access to the full size of that drive.
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I had to reinstall Win98 on the boot drive after a crash. I din't reinstall the Ontrack software as I didn't need the full 6GB on the boot drive, but after installing, I can't access the 40 GB second drive anymore. It shows as the second drive under the Hardware list but no sign of it in the drive letters.
I tried moving the CD to E:. No luck.
I tried ruinning the Seagate Disk Wizard but it only seemd to want to partition the drive, and I want the data that's already on it to remain intact!
Anyway...
I had to reinstall Win98 on the boot drive after a crash. I din't reinstall the Ontrack software as I didn't need the full 6GB on the boot drive, but after installing, I can't access the 40 GB second drive anymore. It shows as the second drive under the Hardware list but no sign of it in the drive letters.
I tried moving the CD to E:. No luck.
I tried ruinning the Seagate Disk Wizard but it only seemd to want to partition the drive, and I want the data that's already on it to remain intact!
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The disk overlay software is loaded from the boot drive. If you remove the second drive and reinstall disk manager on the boot drive, the second drive ought to show up when reconnected.
You will probably need to install the Ontrack Disk Manager software in manual mode, since all you want is the boot BIOS overlay.
I would read the docs on the floppy, and te Ontrack or Seagate site, on how to do a recovery for the BIOS overlay files.
I hope this helps !
I would read the docs on the floppy, and te Ontrack or Seagate site, on how to do a recovery for the BIOS overlay files.
I hope this helps !
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OK I'm on air again - created a boot overlay floppy and I boot from that, then pop it out and boot from the C:
drive. That allows me to see the D: drive again.
The plan now is to unload all the files from the D: drive and start from scratch again.
The other way I thought of was to buy another ST340016A, install it as D:, get disk wizard to set it up as the D: drive in the same format as the one in there now (40G single partition) and then swap the old one back in.
drive. That allows me to see the D: drive again.
The plan now is to unload all the files from the D: drive and start from scratch again.
The other way I thought of was to buy another ST340016A, install it as D:, get disk wizard to set it up as the D: drive in the same format as the one in there now (40G single partition) and then swap the old one back in.
Install the BIOS overlay on your C: drive, and all should be well after that, since it works OK from the bootable floppy.
I hope this helps !
I hope this helps !
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I tried that - it made no difference to the D: drive. I used the Disk Wizard boot disk and ran the utility from there. There was another function to rewrite the MBR but that seemed a bit severe so I passed.
I have ordered (and received) a flash BIOS upgrade which supports large drives.
I have ordered (and received) a flash BIOS upgrade which supports large drives.
Depending on how the BIOS overlay works, the BIOS upgrade may not work !
You may need to use the floppy boot to read the data and copy it somewhere else.
The MBR is actually where the BOS overlay should be located for it to work natively.
Backup your C: using an image program ( Ghost or similar ), and then you can test, or use one of the utility programs that can save/ restore an MBR.
The Disk Wizard should include an uninstall program.
I hope this helps !
You may need to use the floppy boot to read the data and copy it somewhere else.
The MBR is actually where the BOS overlay should be located for it to work natively.
Backup your C: using an image program ( Ghost or similar ), and then you can test, or use one of the utility programs that can save/ restore an MBR.
The Disk Wizard should include an uninstall program.
I hope this helps !
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A lot has happened since then....
I ordered a BIOS upgrade from ESupport - $25. Didn't work. Tred the other flashing utilities they suggested and one of them clobbered the BIOS. Luckily I was able to reinstate it from the BIOS on another machine with a parallel programmer, or I would have been stuffed.
They sent me another BIOS image and flashing utility and that didn't work either. I'm currently pretty annoyed with them.
I'm presuming that with the BIOS upgrade (which supports drives to 137G) I won't need any Ontrack stuff at all.
I ordered a BIOS upgrade from ESupport - $25. Didn't work. Tred the other flashing utilities they suggested and one of them clobbered the BIOS. Luckily I was able to reinstate it from the BIOS on another machine with a parallel programmer, or I would have been stuffed.
They sent me another BIOS image and flashing utility and that didn't work either. I'm currently pretty annoyed with them.
I'm presuming that with the BIOS upgrade (which supports drives to 137G) I won't need any Ontrack stuff at all.
Read my previous post.
If the BIOS does not implement the exact same method of access as Ontrack, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO READ THE 2nd DRIVE !!
Keep your old BIOS handy since it may be the only way to recrete the previous situation correctly.
It may be cheaper to by a spare 80 GB drive...
I hope this helps !
If the BIOS does not implement the exact same method of access as Ontrack, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO READ THE 2nd DRIVE !!
Keep your old BIOS handy since it may be the only way to recrete the previous situation correctly.
It may be cheaper to by a spare 80 GB drive...
I hope this helps !
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Yep, I've already backed up the drive in anticipation of needing to rebuild the system when I reflash the BIOS.
I'm not impressed with ESupport.com BTW - they have stuffed me around and if I hadn't had access to a programmer and another machine with the same BIOS chip I would have been stuffed.
I'm not impressed with ESupport.com BTW - they have stuffed me around and if I hadn't had access to a programmer and another machine with the same BIOS chip I would have been stuffed.
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