Help! problem!

[Arnold]

It all started when a friend (who has gone travelling now) built me a PC which consisted of CD ROM, a master drive of only 341MB with windows 98 on it and a audio drive of 1.2GB. As i've recently wanted to put on more programs than I originally intended I decided to do away with the smaller master drive and instead replace it with the audio drive as the new system drive. I configured the jumpers correctly and setup the larger drive to be the primary master in BIOS fine. Just in case i didn't do this right I loaded disk magic which I got off the seagate website. I made a boot disk from a computer at work which uses Windows 3.11 for workgroups, this is because I have windows 3.1 on disk and the upgrade CD of Windows 95. The boot disk boots the computer to a: prompt from which I then insert a Windows disk and start 'setup'. Setup starts fine until it specifies where it will place the windows files (ie C:\windows). It says it cannot create the directory on the specified drive. When i'm at the a: prompt I can not get to a C: prompt as all I get is 'invalid drive specification'. I reinstalled the original drive (which I erased of data) and reconfigured the BIOS to the way it was but I still have the same problem.
Any Help would be much appreciated.

P.S If it helps the motherboard is a QDI Tetenium 1B

[PostCode]

It sounds like no partitions are defined or the partitions are not active. Run fdisk from the bootdisk to either create the partitions or set the partition as active. I suspect the reason why the former slave drive was inaccessable was because it was originally setup as just that. The smaller drive was setup as the active partition thus when the slave was moved to master no active partitions were found. Hope this helps.

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[Arnold]

Can I run fdisk from a disk with just system files on it or do I have to get it elsewhere? If so where abouts and what commands do you type? (i'm not very familiar with fdisk) Thanks for the help

Originally posted by PostCode:
It sounds like no partitions are defined or the partitions are not active. Run fdisk from the bootdisk to either create the partitions or set the partition as active. I suspect the reason why the former slave drive was inaccessable was because it was originally setup as just that. The smaller drive was setup as the active partition thus when the slave was moved to master no active partitions were found. Hope this helps.

[bassman]

HEY ARNOLD http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Here (http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/progFDISK-c.html) is a good place to start for Fdisk. It should be on the boot disk that you have.

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[Arnold]

Found the problem that boot disk was crap made one using Windows 95 instead.