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Can't see C: drive

Feb 27, 2004 10:33PM PST

After aborted NetZero install I can no longer see the C: drive.
This is on a Win95 OS, so only setup is available, (which is not too detailed).
How drastic will recovery be?

rbul@CarrollsWeb.com

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Re:Can't see C: drive
Feb 28, 2004 1:23AM PST

1. IMHO, installing NetZero shouldn't have had anything to do with your computer not being able to see drive C:\, but I believe if you'd perhaps give some details of exactly what is going on as the system generates, somebody might have an idea -- I don't at the moment. What do you mean that "Setup" is available, how do you know that and what other processes have you done to ascertain what is on the hard drive C:?

2. Interested about support for NetZero, contact their support site.

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Re:Re:Can't see C: drive
Feb 28, 2004 6:46AM PST

PC is equiped with 2 HDA's, which were C: & D:.

At present only the D: drive is booting (as C:, because the original C: drive is "not seen).

Therefore who knows what the condition of c: is.

rbul@CarrollsWeb.com

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More info please.
Feb 28, 2004 2:41AM PST

"see" is rather vague. I wonder if even a computer provided with a webcam can see, and then certainly not the c:-drive.

- Can you boot in MS-DOS? What prompt to get? What do dir and chkdsk 'say'?
- Can you boot from a boot diskette (aHappy. Then same questions for dir c: and chkdsk c:.
- Can you boot into safe mode? What shows up in Explorer then?

Kees

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Re:More info please.
Feb 28, 2004 6:51AM PST

In your terms, the original C: drive is no longer present.

Therefore can not do chkdsk, etc. on the drive.

There is a second HDA (now C:), which will bootup.

rbul@CarrollsWeb.com

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You didn't tell so.
Feb 28, 2004 6:29PM PST

Start with fdisk /status to see the status of all hard disks on your system.

Then repeat the diagnostics with d: in stead of c:, if it's reported as a FAT32 system. You might add scandisk.
If you've got a working system, there is no need for using a boot diskette. Every piece of software needed is on the c:-drive.

This seems rather trivial. Couldn't you think of it yourself? Of am I missing something?

Kees

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Re:You didn't tell so.
Mar 2, 2004 2:36AM PST

You can also enter your CMOS, or BIOS settings and try resetting your configuration data, and to see if the system first sees the drive itself. If not, try resetting the configuration data, and if the drive comes up you should be able to boot to it.