"Allan M. Wind" wrote: > > On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: > > > I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to patition the > > HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on > > it. I tried using fdisk under "dos" but it wouldn't let me delete the > > current partition so I used the Slink installation disk and cfdisk to > > partition my HD. I cut the disk in half and added one partition "Win95 > > FAT32 (LBA)" which was what it was before except that it took up the > > whole disk. I marked it as bootable. I then attempted to install W98 > > and got the message "no HD found." I went into the bios setup and the > > disk can't be detected. I switched it to "auto" but no improvement. I > > used the Slink installation cd again and found I get the message "FATAL > > ERROR: Cannot read disk drive Press any key to exit fdisk." I have no > > installation disks for this HD. It is the HD that came with the > > system. What the heck do I do now? > > You did use something to resize that win98 parition with besides > cfdisk, right? There's a tool called fips that can do the magic and > perhaps fsresize.
OK I found fips but this is used to partition a drive that has a usable Windows disk. I have written this new partition table to the disk and it has made my disk unreadable, in fact now seen. I'm not sure this would help me any? Thanks, kent
