Thanks, John,

I'll give that a try. What seems strange to me is why I can access the
drive even though the BIOS doesn't see it. I suspect I already have
that HDD set up as the slave with no master. Is that possible? And all
I really need to do is restore the system files.

Frank


--- In windows-98@yahoogroups.com, c-post <C-POST@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>