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September 5, 2001 at 09:12 AM
rebootd

No fixed disks present

by rebootd . Updated 24 years, 8 months ago

I recently ghosted an image from an older WD 6 gig hard drive that had win98 on it to another hard drive,and wanted to wipe it and reinstall windows 98 on it. In between ghosting what I wanted to save, and
reinstalling, in the interim I installed NT4 on it and ran it on another machine for a few days. When I went to run fdisk to reinstall win98 though, the volume label was something I hadn’t seen before, all strange characters, and was unable to duplicate them (so I couldn’t fdisk)…I tried formatting the hard drive to see if I could remove
that volume label, and it let me format, and let me change the volume label to nothing. At that point then, the hard drive would not let me reinstall windows until I re-partitioned, so when I ran fdisk again, I
got the message: “No fixed disks present”. I checked the BIOS; it detects the hard drive just fine. I tried running Ghost again, (with
this HD slaved to the one with the saved image on it)…Ghost lists the hard drive and its specs, butalso doesnt allow me to access it(transfer to it.) I have been careful about settings on the hard drive
itself: slave/master etc. I would appreciate any help, thanks.

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