Second hard drive invisible

[EvilCabal]

Hey, I have a ghost of my c: drive on my d: drive and I want to restore it using norton ghost but when I boot in dos to do so I can't access my d: drive (the POST sees it tought). Please help.

 

[edfair]

Your DOS probably is an earlier version that can't see the media type for the filesystem.
Try a later version. Ed Fair
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[EvilCabal]

Well the drive is formatted using Fat32 but there is a partition on it formatted for linux. The dos version I used is the one on the win98 cd-rom (7.0 I believe) so I should see the drive...

 

[wolluf]

So is the d: drive part of an extended partition which also includes logical linux drives too? If so, this may be causing a problem (you may need to backup the d: drive then remove & recreate the extended partition with just a fat32 logical drive - no linux - in it. Then copy data back & try again). have you just tried booting using the ghost boot disk? If so, try a normal win98 boot floppy to see if you can see d: drive from there.

Though, reading your post again - you say the POST sees the d: drive - so is it a separate physical drive? And if so, how is it partitioned?

 

[EvilCabal]

The D is a separete physical drive that contain a partition for storage (fat32) and a partition for Linux. I believe the Linux partition is the first one on the drive and that is why dos does not recognize it. Do you think there is there any other than formatting it?

 

[jgm21]

YOU DID TRY PARTITION MAGIC

 

[EvilCabal]

No I did not because I never used it and i'm not quite sure what it does. I need this drive formatted for Linux so even if I use a Partition Magic to format it as Fat32 I'll lose all my Linux set up right?