I have a Dual HD system C: 200g D:80g running win98se
I was reinstalling windows98se over it self I. When you do this Windows created a D drive to backup the old version
had and error tried rebooting and it wouldn't reboot. after doing some investagtion I discovered that somehow the "backup drive created by windows D" somehow GOT switched with C so the Windows backup is now C and the old C is now D.
How do it get it back the way it should be. MY second hard drive contains all my backupsShut down. Disconnect the second HD. Install windows. Shut down. Reconnect second HD. Reboot.reinstall windows from scratch?yep reformat and all

once reformatted all data will be lost for good so plz back up anything of importanceOK..ALREADY HAVEthen begin reformatting when you have timeActually i would have tried to just remove the current C: and SET D: as master which has the old Win98 and see if it will boot....been awhile since i did a Win98 install with a COPY of the old system being saved. So i cannot say 100% that it creates a boot sector etc that would make the "copy " bootable or it just copies the drive contents.

Even so if it didn't boot you could STILL try what i suggested; boot with a Win98 boot disk and at the A: prompt type sys C: and hit Enter...remove the floppy and re-boot and it should boot to that drive as long as it was set as active when fdisked and formatted...

Just food for thought.good new bad news
I thought I could get way without reinstalling used fdisk to delete the "C" PARTITION leaving only the "D" rebooted now only having "c" but Windows files were corrupted so back to square 1. I am reinstalling windows from scratch. Once I get the system back to where it should be I plan on upgrading to XP HOMEYou do not have to have Win98 loaded to use the upgrade for XP. You just insert the Win98 CD when asked.ok...but I still have to reinstall all the software and restire the data that was on there before I would rather do that under 98se where I can use the backups for data. If I upgrade to xp I can't use MSBACKUP. It's not supported under XP so this way I can restore all the data then upgrad. My only problem is going to be once I upgrade all those backups will be useless. As I understand it if you upgrade to XP you have to change the drive from FAT32(98SE) to NTSF. It' my understanding that a drive cant't have one partition as FAT32 and anoter as NTSFQuote from: bac0926 on May 12, 2007, 12:43:17 PM

It' my understanding that a drive cant't have one partition as FAT32 and anoter as NTSF