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Hard Drive realacating divisions

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by service

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I am runing win 98 On start up I was confronted with a message that the D drive being the partitioned drve was not readable
Abort,Retry. I entered Abort and windows Opened.
However, when opening explorer the D drive nolong showed and the files that were on the D drive have moved to an new E drive the CD-Rom has become F
drive & the RW has became G drive.
Can someone tell me why this has happend and can I revert back the the original configeration and how

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by thechas

The partition table on the hard drive has become corrupt.

I would back up all data, wipe the hard drive, and re-partition the drive, format and start over.

If the drive has a lot of time on it, I would consider replacing it.

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