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by fernando.rubiano

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I currently have a IDE hard disk running Win 95, I installed a SCSI hard disk, (no conflicts) the systems was booting up properly. When I did the FDISK from the Windows 95 DOS Prompt it did not recognized it. SO I MADE THE MISTAKE OF BOOTING MY SYSTEM WITH A WIN98 Diskette, now when I tried to boot my system, I get the following messages and the system hangs:
Starting Windows 95.
Type the name of the command Interpreter (e.g.; c:\windows\command.com)
C>

I'm unable to access my hard drive (which I have a lot of important information).
FYI- I tried to reload Windows 95 on top of what I currently have, but it gives me a msg that there is not enough space to run setup.
Is there a way that I can get my system to boot normally. Thank you.
T

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by saihib

Get a Win 95 boot disk and boot from it. At the A: prompt type SYS C: and hit enter. Reboot

by oskiller

If you remove the SCSI drive from the system, what happens? I've seen some systems put the scsi device first then the ide devices. See if the system will boot that way.

Then try booting from a Win95 floppy with the SCSI drive as the only drive inthe system and run fdisk that way to see if you can partiontion at that point.

by oskiller

If you remove the SCSI drive from the system, what happens? I've seen some systems put the scsi device first then the ide devices. See if the system will boot that way.

Then try booting from a Win95 floppy with the SCSI drive as the only drive inthe system and run fdisk that way to see if you can partiontion at that point.

by mishratron

Move your IDE disk to slave and put a small 2 gig disk in there and install 95 on it . Get your important information off the disk, format the slave.
take out your master and turn your disk back into a master then install 95 on it and put the data disk back inas the slave and transfer your files

by richard_barsby

Hi did you run Fdisk from the win98 boot disk if so you may have change it to fat32 and not fat16 by mistake thinking you were accessing the scsi drive as win95a is fat16 I believe 95b & 95c were able to have fat32.

Hope this helps

Rich

by fernando.rubiano

Yes, it worked.. Thanks a lot..
I booted with Win95b and was able to re-established the partition type, which in this case was fat32. From Now on, I'm playing save, I will back up more often..
Thanks for your help

by oskiller

Since you tried the other methods, I assume that you have verified the IDE drive settings in the BIOS?

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