Hard disk problem

[davidhg]

I have a old computer 66 mhz 540 mb harddisk
I compressed the drive with drivespace3 i think
operating system was win 95
I then took the disk and put it in another pc operating system win98 and formatted the disk and used it as extra disk everything worked allright
But after I put the disk back in the 66 and tried to setup win 95 again the bios cant find the hard disk
error message "hard disk failure" I have put another old 170 mb disk in the pc and it works ecxept for i have to use startup diskette, but I cant use it with the 540 disk
Is it possible the boot sector is damaged
Is there someone who can fix it for me
Thanks David

 

[edfair]

Difference in media descriptor between 95 and 98. Try the 95's fdisk /mbr then delete the non dos partition. Then start again. This should resolve it.
Or go back to a DOS fdisk and do it there. Ed Fair
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[teknoguy]

ive seen too many problems with compressed drives, they'll just cause chaos on your system. even if you do get it working you'll just have problems down the road.