Solve : Lost a partition?

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Answer» I have an old laptop, IBM pentium II, built for 98, 128 MB ram, with two partitions. The one win 98 is on is 2 GB in size, and the other was about 11 GB. I tried to install win XP onto the larger partition, and it worked, but when i start it, it gets stuck on the initial screen, and will not do anything. When i start in safe mode, it gets stuck on agp440.sys the safe mode line when it stops is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\agp440.sys I tried running the setup from the CD again, but i cant get it to do anything, and the 98 part of the computer cannot access or even figure out that the other piece of the HDD is there. As of now, All I want is to get the second partition back to a useable status with win 98. Can ANYONE help me?It could be your video card. When you start your computer, do you receive one or more beeps ??Ya, i think so. Take a look here.I checked it again, and I only have 1 beep. Which, by that chart, is PERFECTLY ok. Well, i think i was able to fix my specific problem, I went in with a linux live cd, and used gpartition, where all windows programs couldn't touch it. Now, I can access the drive, and its perfectly blank, but my bios still tells me that I have XP installed.... Quote from: atlasrune on November 03, 2007, 01:06:29 AM but my bios still tells me that I have XP installed.... How does it do that? A Win98 machine with 128MG of RAM is going to struggle with XP...especially a laptop. This may be an exercise in futility.Quote from: contrex on November 03, 2007, 01:47:45 AM Quote from: atlasrune on November 03, 2007, 01:06:29 AM but my bios still tells me that I have XP installed.... How does it do that? I dunno, but it still has the startum menu asking whether i want to RUN Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows. I checked Microsoft's archives, and they say that XP can run on 64 megs of ram. I think its probably something to do with the graphics capabilities of the laptop.Quote from: atlasrune on November 03, 2007, 10:13:43 AM but my bios still tells me that I have XP installed.... How does it do that? Quote I dunno, but it still has the startum menu asking whether i want to run Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows. That's not your "bios", that's the NT boot loader still hanging around.. You may find you need to boot into Windows 98 DOS mode and type fdisk /mbr at the prompt to deal with this. As for when XP was hanging at agp440.sys, that may be a sign your hard disk is dying, or at least needs checking

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I have an old laptop, IBM pentium II, built for 98, 128 MB ram, with two partitions. The one win 98 is on is 2 GB in size, and the other was about 11 GB. I tried to install win XP onto the larger partition, and it worked, but when i start it, it gets stuck on the initial screen, and will not do anything. When i start in safe mode, it gets stuck on agp440.sys

the safe mode line when it stops is

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\agp440.sys

I tried running the setup from the CD again, but i cant get it to do anything, and the 98 part of the computer cannot access or even figure out that the other piece of the HDD is there. As of now, All I want is to get the second partition back to a useable status with win 98.

Can ANYONE help me?It could be your video card.
When you start your computer, do you receive one or more beeps ??Ya, i think so.

Take a look here.I checked it again, and I only have 1 beep. Which, by that chart, is PERFECTLY ok.

Well, i think i was able to fix my specific problem, I went in with a linux live cd, and used gpartition, where all windows programs couldn't touch it.

Now, I can access the drive, and its perfectly blank, but my bios still tells me that I have XP installed....

Quote from: atlasrune on November 03, 2007, 01:06:29 AM

but my bios still tells me that I have XP installed....

How does it do that?

A Win98 machine with 128MG of RAM is going to struggle with XP...especially a laptop.
This may be an exercise in futility.Quote from: contrex on November 03, 2007, 01:47:45 AM

Quote from: atlasrune on November 03, 2007, 01:06:29 AM
but my bios still tells me that I have XP installed....

How does it do that?

I dunno, but it still has the startum menu asking whether i want to RUN Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows.

I checked Microsoft's archives, and they say that XP *can* run on 64 megs of ram. I think its probably something to do with the graphics capabilities of the laptop.Quote from: atlasrune on November 03, 2007, 10:13:43 AM

but my bios still tells me that I have XP installed....

How does it do that?

Quote

I dunno, but it still has the startum menu asking whether i want to run Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows.

That's not your "bios", that's the NT boot loader still hanging around.. You may find you need to boot into Windows 98 DOS mode and type fdisk /mbr at the prompt to deal with this.

As for when XP was hanging at agp440.sys, that may be a sign your hard disk is dying, or at least needs checking

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