Help? anybody.
Ok, heres the setup. Last Wensday night, got home, was sitting in the house, we had a power outage for about 20 seconds. Went upstairs to look at the computers, my wifes win98 pc booted fine, my win2000 pc booted fine, my win98 had problems.
During startup everything looked fine, memory check ran fine, hard drives and cd-roms loaded, then when it was loading the irq settings for the devices, one thing I noticed that when my harddrives loaded, it only showed irq 14 instead of normally 14/15. Everything else loaded normal.
By this point, I was getting short cut to ?? missing. I displayed my drives, my 2nd hard disk (d and e drive) was missing. When I looked at my devices in the System Panel, under drives, it only showed one drive and it said "Generic IDE TYPE 46" and it had a red X infront of it. Also, under Controllers, it shows "Primary IDE Controller (dual fifo)" has a yellow ! in front of it.
Also, when I look at the Performance Tab in System Properties I am receiving the following 2 messages,
"Compatibility-mode paging reduces over all system performance"
"Drive C is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system."
I tried everything I found on the net. I tried all of the registry edits that I have seen. Nothings worked.
Heres what else I have done. I pulled the 40gig drive (2nd in 98 box). The system booted normal and everything loaded. I looked in the System Properties. Everything was fine with no errors.
I had another fat32 drive sitting around. I installed it into the 98 box, booted the system, it showed using both IRQ's 14 & 15. Everything loaded fine, no system errors, no problems.
Just to see what would happen, I put the 40gig drive into my 2000 Pro box, everything loaded normal, no system conflicts. My drive listing went A, C, E, so it did not show the d:, but I had no system error messages.
If this was just my operating system disk I would just wipe it out, but I have highly critical information that I need on it.
Who ever can help me access this disk again will be my life long hero
Ok, heres the setup. Last Wensday night, got home, was sitting in the house, we had a power outage for about 20 seconds. Went upstairs to look at the computers, my wifes win98 pc booted fine, my win2000 pc booted fine, my win98 had problems.
During startup everything looked fine, memory check ran fine, hard drives and cd-roms loaded, then when it was loading the irq settings for the devices, one thing I noticed that when my harddrives loaded, it only showed irq 14 instead of normally 14/15. Everything else loaded normal.
By this point, I was getting short cut to ?? missing. I displayed my drives, my 2nd hard disk (d and e drive) was missing. When I looked at my devices in the System Panel, under drives, it only showed one drive and it said "Generic IDE TYPE 46" and it had a red X infront of it. Also, under Controllers, it shows "Primary IDE Controller (dual fifo)" has a yellow ! in front of it.
Also, when I look at the Performance Tab in System Properties I am receiving the following 2 messages,
"Compatibility-mode paging reduces over all system performance"
"Drive C is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system."
I tried everything I found on the net. I tried all of the registry edits that I have seen. Nothings worked.
Heres what else I have done. I pulled the 40gig drive (2nd in 98 box). The system booted normal and everything loaded. I looked in the System Properties. Everything was fine with no errors.
I had another fat32 drive sitting around. I installed it into the 98 box, booted the system, it showed using both IRQ's 14 & 15. Everything loaded fine, no system errors, no problems.
Just to see what would happen, I put the 40gig drive into my 2000 Pro box, everything loaded normal, no system conflicts. My drive listing went A, C, E, so it did not show the d:, but I had no system error messages.
If this was just my operating system disk I would just wipe it out, but I have highly critical information that I need on it.
Who ever can help me access this disk again will be my life long hero