That is a bit of a pickle, Frank. What I would do is get another
harddrive and install it in the master position by setting the jumper.
And change the setting of your old drive to be the slave. Boot up with
your start up diskette and install WIndows 98 in the new drive. And
after you have installed windows 98, then see if you can access your old
boot drive. If not, I think your old drive is toast, which would be a
shame, since you might have data on it that you need.

What I have done to guard against this type of failure is I make a clone
of my boot drive before it goes down using disk cloning software. It
takes me so long to install all my programs and get all the drivers to
make the system run (and I have got a cherry, 2 screen win 98 system
that I have maintained for years) that disk cloning is essential. PLUS I
also have a very valuable little program called desktop resetter which
remembers the desktop positions of all my icons.

I usually have to do a maintenance reinstall of Win98 about every 4-5
months, because sometimes it gets a little funky, usually associated
with printer drivers or other drivers.

good luck

John

Frank Leitnaker wrote:
>
> Is there anybody still monitoring this group that might give me some help?
>
> I am still using Windows 98 (SE) in an old computer because it has some
> capability I don't have with this computer running on Windows XP HE.
>
> Now the old computer will not boot. Set-up does not detect the master HDD
> which is partitioned into C and D. Using Win 98 (SE) start-up diskette, I
> was able to access the C:\ drive and run Scandisk which found no errors.
>
> I don't understand what is going on nor what else to do about it.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Frank Leitnaker
>
>


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