"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?
No I didn't. >There's a tool called fips that can do the magic and > perhaps fsresize. Where do I get these programs and will they be able to read my disk when neither the Windows installation disk or Sink's cfdisk can't? I will search the net for the programs but if you know where I can find them quickly ... > > If you didn't drop any data on the new paritions, try to restore the > parition table to what it used to be. I didn't drop any data but I can't access anything but bios/setup at this time. My system basically is telling me that no HD exists. How can I restore the partition table? Thanks, kent
