No Boot Up after removing slave drive

I realize this subject was covered recently but I thought I'd see if there has been any additional nuggets of info. Originally, my PC was equipped with a Western Digital 2.5 GB drive. I later added a Maxtor 8 GB slave. The original drive was partitioned C and D, more/less equal space. After installing the slave I had C, D, F, G, H, and I drives (E was a read write CD-ROM and J a CD-ROM read only). The partition sizes with the slave installed were C=2.5 GB, D=2.0 GB, F=2.0 GB, G=2.0 GB, H=2.0 GB, I=0.2 GB

I went in and formatted F, G, H and I before removing the slave. I also re-booted prior to slave removal. After removing the slave, the system would not boot up. It recognized the primary hard drive and then the floppy, but then asks for bootable media to be inserted. I put the Windows 98 boot disk in but this still didn't get the system to boot up.

Any clues?

 

Did you by any chance have a overlay installed to make the BIOS recognize the 8gig drive ? If you did it won't work untill it is re-installed to the same location where is was and the Overlay removed by the same software that installed it.

That is the bad part about using an overlay. You can't move the drives around until the over lay is removed. ( or at least disabled )

Also the Overlay has most of the info on the 1st HD and by removing the over lay it removes that info also.

After installing the slave I had C, D, F, G, H, and J drives (E was a read write CD-ROM and J a CD-ROM read only).

Something looks to be not quite right here. ( to me anyway ).

How did the CD-RW get to be E: ? All things being equal the 1st CDROM should have been H: and the second I:

Unless you have it forced to be E: ( which noramlly does not work ) it should be the first letter after the last HD partition.

BillyBob

 

BillyBob,

I wasn't using an overlay (as far as I know) and I really wasn't given a choice about the drive letters for the CD-Roms. What I did discover last night is that the primary drive has a jumper that need to be moved (so it knew it was the only drive). And now it works!

 

speaking from experience also

Adding/removing Hard Dives with out changing jumpers will cause problems 98% of the time.

Glad you got it fixed.

My previous reply was from experience also. Your problem was MUCH easier to fix.

I would still like to know how the CDROM got but in between HD partition letters. I have never seen it do that.

BillyBob