Pri Slave not recognised.

[Classic 42]

Dual boot system Win 98SE as Primary Master.80Gb. Win XP Home250Gb as
Primary slave.
Recently decided that PriMaster Win 98SE was in need of reformatting (Many
and constant 'This has performed an illegal.etc')
Disconnected Win XP and power supply. Reformatted Win 98SE (Primary Master).
No problem with that. Installed Win98SE operating system with progs. I
wanted. Again no problem.
Reconnected Win XP Home 250Gbdrive. Went to CMOS setup pressed F3 to show
drives and this is the result.
Pri Master User Pri Slave User
Size41173Mb Size 0
Cyl 19710 Cyl 0
Head 16 Head 0
WPCom 0 WPCom 0
Sec255 Sec0
LBA Mode On LBA Mode On
PIO Mode 4 PIO Mode4
32Bit Mode On 32Bit Mode Off
Cannot now access Win XP Home, do not have choice of o/s on boot up. CMOS
does not show cylinders etc.
My Computer in Win 98SE shows 'C'Drive (Win98SE) and 'D'Drive (Win XP Home.)
Shows all the files on 'D'.
Can anybody tell me where I have gone wrong. Long post 'cos I wanted to get
all the info. down.
Thanks in advance.
Classic

 

[Kerry Brown]

You have two problems.

The first one is a hardware problem. It could be a cable issue, jumper, BIOS
setting, etc. Does your BIOS have an option to auto find the drives? Is the
drive type set to auto?

The second is that when you formatted the primary master drive you overwrote
the boot sector with Windows 98 code removing the XP boot code. Once the
BIOS is recognising the hard drive you need to perform a repair install.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

You could also modify the boot sector from the XP recovery console but it is
very complicated to setup the dual boot with win98 this way. Doing a repair
install will setup the dual boot.

If you didn't back up your data before starting all this now would be a good
time to backup any important data.

 

[Robert Gault]

Dual boot system Win 98SE as Primary Master.80Gb. Win XP Home250Gb as
Primary slave.
Recently decided that PriMaster Win 98SE was in need of reformatting (Many
and constant 'This has performed an illegal.etc')
Disconnected Win XP and power supply. Reformatted Win 98SE (Primary Master).
No problem with that. Installed Win98SE operating system with progs. I
wanted. Again no problem.
Reconnected Win XP Home 250Gbdrive. Went to CMOS setup pressed F3 to show
drives and this is the result.
Pri Master User Pri Slave User
Size41173Mb Size 0
Cyl 19710 Cyl 0
Head 16 Head 0
WPCom 0 WPCom 0
Sec255 Sec0
LBA Mode On LBA Mode On
PIO Mode 4 PIO Mode4
32Bit Mode On 32Bit Mode Off
Cannot now access Win XP Home, do not have choice of o/s on boot up. CMOS
does not show cylinders etc.
My Computer in Win 98SE shows 'C'Drive (Win98SE) and 'D'Drive (Win XP Home.)
Shows all the files on 'D'.
Can anybody tell me where I have gone wrong. Long post 'cos I wanted to get
all the info. down.
Thanks in advance.
Classic

You haven't done anything "wrong" just overlooked that in reformatting
drive C: you removed all evidence of WinXP on the system. Some of the
files deleted were: boot.ini, bootsect.dos, ntdetect.com, and ntldr.

I doubt that you have any choice but to reinstall WinXP Home being
careful to indicate that this is intended to be a system restore. There
should be that option on the WinXP CDROM.

Do a search with Google and on the Microsoft Knowledge Base before you
reinstall so you don't dig your hole deeper.

 

[Classic 42]

You haven't done anything "wrong" just overlooked that in reformatting
drive C: you removed all evidence of WinXP on the system. Some of the
files deleted were: boot.ini, bootsect.dos, ntdetect.com, and ntldr.

I doubt that you have any choice but to reinstall WinXP Home being
careful to indicate that this is intended to be a system restore. There
should be that option on the WinXP CDROM.

Do a search with Google and on the Microsoft Knowledge Base before you
reinstall so you don't dig your hole deeper.

Thank you both for your replies.
I cannot access Win XP Home so cannot back anything up.
After booting to XP Instal with my XP CD I can get to the screen showing the
Recovery letter. It then asks which drive I would like to restore. I
indicate 1. (D It then asks for the administrator password. But I have
never set a password so cannot get past this. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Classic

 

[Kerry Brown]

Thank you both for your replies.
I cannot access Win XP Home so cannot back anything up.
After booting to XP Instal with my XP CD I can get to the screen
showing the Recovery letter. It then asks which drive I would like to
restore. I indicate 1. (D It then asks for the administrator
password. But I have never set a password so cannot get past this.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Classic

Did you get the BIOS problem fixed? Have you tried just pressing enter with
no password? In your first post you indicated you see the files on D: from
Windows 98. You should be able to backup from there if this is the case. If
not you should be able to boot from a Linux CD and copy files from there as
long as the BIOS problem is fixed.

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

 

[John John]

Dual boot system Win 98SE as Primary Master.80Gb. Win XP Home250Gb as
Primary slave.
Recently decided that PriMaster Win 98SE was in need of reformatting (Many
and constant 'This has performed an illegal.etc')
Disconnected Win XP and power supply. Reformatted Win 98SE (Primary Master).
No problem with that. Installed Win98SE operating system with progs. I
wanted. Again no problem.
Reconnected Win XP Home 250Gbdrive. Went to CMOS setup pressed F3 to show
drives and this is the result.
Pri Master User Pri Slave User
Size41173Mb Size 0
Cyl 19710 Cyl 0
Head 16 Head 0
WPCom 0 WPCom 0
Sec255 Sec0
LBA Mode On LBA Mode On
PIO Mode 4 PIO Mode4
32Bit Mode On 32Bit Mode Off
Cannot now access Win XP Home, do not have choice of o/s on boot up. CMOS
does not show cylinders etc.
My Computer in Win 98SE shows 'C'Drive (Win98SE) and 'D'Drive (Win XP Home.)
Shows all the files on 'D'.
Can anybody tell me where I have gone wrong. Long post 'cos I wanted to get
all the info. down.
Thanks in advance.
Classic

Sounds like your Windows XP drive is on a FAT32 drive? This should be
even easier to fix without doing an XP reinstall, if you care to try it.
If not do as the others say and do a repair installation.

1- Boot to the Windows 98 installation

2- Use the DEBUG command to recreate the bootsect.dos:
a- Start an MS-DOS session (MS-DOS prompt).
b- At the root directory of the Windows 98 drive (C:\) type the
following, pressing <Enter> after each line:

debug
L 100 2 0 1
N C:\BOOTSECT.DOS
R BX
0
R CX
200
W
Q

3- If your Windows XP is on FAT32 you can do this from the Windows 98
installation, if not, or if the i386 folder is missing, you have to do
it from the Recovery Console and copy the files from the Windows XP cd.

Copy ntldr and NTDETECT.COM from the Windows XP i386 folder to
C:\

4- Boot to the Windows XP Recovery Console and at root of the Windows 98
drive issue these 2 commands:

fixboot
bootcfg /rebuild

Exit the Recovery Console. You should now have your dual boot setup again.

John

 

[Classic 42]

Did you get the BIOS problem fixed? Have you tried just pressing enter with
no password? In your first post you indicated you see the files on D: from
Windows 98. You should be able to backup from there if this is the case. If
not you should be able to boot from a Linux CD and copy files from there as
long as the BIOS problem is fixed.

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

Hi Kerry,

Well I was sure that I could see my 'D' drive in My
Computer on 'C' but on reflection maybe it was just wishful thinking on my
confused part.
In the event the problem is fixed. Eureka!!! and this is how.
I went into the Recovery console and when asked for the password I just
pressed enter. I then came to D:WINDOWS I typed bootcfg /list then enter.
The message from this was 'There is no list to display' I then typed bootcfg
/rebuild then enter, this did the trick and after about 5 minutes of
searching I cannot remember the exact wording but the screen showed me that
the bootcfg was repaired. I removed the Win XP CD, typed exit, rebooted,
went into BIOS CMOS, instructed to boot from IDE 0. rebooted, got the dual
boot screen and into WinXP Home. This drive is NTFS the Win 98SE is FAT32,
maybe one day if I can discover how, I might partition the 250Gb drive and
put WinXP Home on a FAT 32 partition, and then again maybe not. LOL.
Thanks again for your help.
Regards.
Classic

 

[Kerry Brown]

Well I was sure that I could see my 'D' drive in My
Computer on 'C' but on reflection maybe it was just wishful thinking
on my confused part.
In the event the problem is fixed. Eureka!!! and this is how.
I went into the Recovery console and when asked for the password I
just pressed enter. I then came to D:WINDOWS I typed bootcfg /list
then enter. The message from this was 'There is no list to display' I
then typed bootcfg /rebuild then enter, this did the trick and after
about 5 minutes of searching I cannot remember the exact wording but
the screen showed me that the bootcfg was repaired. I removed the Win
XP CD, typed exit, rebooted, went into BIOS CMOS, instructed to boot
from IDE 0. rebooted, got the dual boot screen and into WinXP Home.
This drive is NTFS the Win 98SE is FAT32, maybe one day if I can
discover how, I might partition the 250Gb drive and put WinXP Home on
a FAT 32 partition, and then again maybe not. LOL.
Thanks again for your help.
Regards.
Classic

Glad to hear you got it fixed.