Recovering - Win2Kcrash that wiped the OS

[RedFox]

Hi Experts,

I recently bought an Intel motherboard, cpu and RAM chips to upgrade a
computer. I loaded Win2K, SP4 and Rollup and lots of programs. I was opening
some files to investigate the lack of audio when it crashed, completely
wiping the OS.

That installation was on a 160GB HD with a single partition - the c: drive.
When I tried to repair the drive from the installation CD, it (the c: drive)
could not be found. I tried various boot disks and c: never appeared. The
partition was made with Disk manager and SpeedStor was not used.

Then I upgraded the BIOS, and chipset on the m'board and reinstalled Win2K,
etc. on the D: drive. It is now running very well and is very stable.

I am looking for a challenge here - to resurrect the OS on the c: drive and
I would appreciate some guidance. Fortunately, the C: drive has no other OS
installed, so that screwing up the boot record probably will not impact the
data currently on that drive.

How about booting with a diskette to the D: drive and then doing an Fdisk
/mbr on c:? Would the c: drive then become visible to a boot diskette?

Suggestions appreciated.

RF

 

[Conor]

Hi Experts,

I recently bought an Intel motherboard, cpu and RAM chips to upgrade a
computer. I loaded Win2K, SP4 and Rollup and lots of programs. I was opening
some files to investigate the lack of audio when it crashed, completely
wiping the OS.

That installation was on a 160GB HD with a single partition - the c: drive.
When I tried to repair the drive from the installation CD, it (the c: drive)
could not be found. I tried various boot disks and c: never appeared. The
partition was made with Disk manager and SpeedStor was not used.

Then I upgraded the BIOS, and chipset on the m'board and reinstalled Win2K,
etc. on the D: drive. It is now running very well and is very stable.

I am looking for a challenge here - to resurrect the OS on the c: drive and
I would appreciate some guidance. Fortunately, the C: drive has no other OS
installed, so that screwing up the boot record probably will not impact the
data currently on that drive.

How about booting with a diskette to the D: drive and then doing an Fdisk
/mbr on c:? Would the c: drive then become visible to a boot diskette?

Suggestions appreciated.

www.48bitlba.com

I think you have an issue with that.

 

[RedFox]

www.48bitlba.com

I think you have an issue with that.

Thank you Conor - good point.

I downloaded the Disk test file which indicated that the WDC WD205BA drive
does not support 48-bit LBA.

RF