re: Can see drives other than c:
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
If you have access to another computer, take the drives out and slave them into another
machine. Do not make them the boot drives. See what the report is and/or if you
can see the directories. The errors are pointing to a bad motherboard which can
certianly corrupt the hard drives. You have two errors that point to a failure of
the chipset on the motherboard. I wouldn't try anything else until checking the
drives on another machine and seeing if windows on that machine can repair them if
needed.
You should also check the drives with a diagnostics utility from the drive manufacturers
website, but do it on another machine. I wouldn't trust the current machine to do
it properly.
Bottom line IME, the motherboard should be replaced, but you probably won't find
another one. You will end up with a new machine, or a good used one that can run
Win 9X if that's what your software requires.
On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 8:51 am, dave wrote:
>I have a Compacq Deskpro running W98 with 128 RAM
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>It runs a Dos Software for a restaurant called MOO
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> It has a problem seeing the ghost drive, CD Rom Drive, an external Omega 100 MB
>Drive used for backups
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>It has 2 ide hard drives,(maybe 1 with 2 partions?), a CD Rom Drive, a 100mb External
>Zip Drive, and a 3.5 floppy.
>Fixed drives are C: 6150 4098 free 33%used & D: 29325 27280bfree 7%used
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>F Disk...
> Currect fixed Disk Drive 1
>C: 1 partition non dos
> 2 partition Active Primary Dos 33% Fat 16
>D: 1 partition pri Dos Ghost Drive 2045 Mbytes Fat 16
> 4 files in 0 directories
>Command Com
>Original GHO
>Backup GHO
>Backup BAK
>~~~~~~~~~~
>Device manager only shows C: and D: With error looking at the D: drive properties...
>nor will it run chkdsk or scandisk on D:
>I get the error... Processing can not continue. File allocation table bad.
>An error has occured...but the correct message could not be found.
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>F10 Setup Shows D: but does not show numbers for Cly, sectors, volume, etc... just
>size
>It Sees all these details for C: fine
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> DMA controller test failed?
>not getting any BIOS Audio Beep Errors and Messages, but a Compaq OEM Diagonestic
>Testing program found...
>1) Processor failed DMA Controller Test
>2) Com2 modem Failed the internal test timed out waiting for SYNC
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> Im thinking I should remove everything except C: and then add drives 1 at a time
>to see if they are seen...
>Cd and Zip have power
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