Help! win95 stuffed up drive C: !

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2 total messages Started by Simon Chin Mon, 01 Jul 1996 00:00

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Author: Simon Chin
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 00:00

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Help! I can't boot of drive C anymore - here's  the story

I've got 2 drives, C and D
On drive C I've got windows 3.1
I recently put in drive D. Partitioned it for windows 3.1 and Linux.
I installed another copy of windows 3.1 on drive D (in preparation for
win95). I used LILO boot manager to boot between win 3.1 (C), win 3.1 (D), 
and Linux.  Things were working fine.

Then I installed Windows 95 Upgrade Version on drive D. 
I don't know what it did, but now I can't boot win 3.1/DOS off 
drive C. I'm getting a non-system disk error message. I don't even
know why it even TOUCHED drive C because I didn't want it to.

So the question is: how do I make drive C bootable again (without
formatting it again) ?



thanks,

-- Simon (simc@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au)

Re: Help! win95 stuffed up drive C: !

#41

Author: Nikol Su
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 00:00

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simc@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Simon Chin) wrote:

>
>Help! I can't boot of drive C anymore - here's  the story
>
>I've got 2 drives, C and D
>On drive C I've got windows 3.1
>I recently put in drive D. Partitioned it for windows 3.1 and Linux.
>I installed another copy of windows 3.1 on drive D (in preparation for
>win95). I used LILO boot manager to boot between win 3.1 (C), win 3.1 (D), 
>and Linux.  Things were working fine.
>
>Then I installed Windows 95 Upgrade Version on drive D. 
>I don't know what it did, but now I can't boot win 3.1/DOS off 
>drive C. I'm getting a non-system disk error message. I don't even
>know why it even TOUCHED drive C because I didn't want it to.

As far as I know, Win95 system files has to be on the first hard drive (C:\),
even you install the whole thing on say d:\windows
That way, Win95 will put new version of io.sys and msdos.sys and command.com on
the c:\, overwriting the dos version.

Another thing is Win95 installation always rewrites the boot sector in order to
reboot straight into Win95 during installation. I don't know how LILO works, in
case of OS/2 boot manage, what you have to do is that after the installation,
boot to command prompt, and fdisk, set the boot manage partition(very small)
active. 
Hope this has some help.

--
Nikol Su      email:  nsu@zip.com.au      Phone: 0411 336239
Frank's Compware - Check prices here before you buy hardware
http://www.zip.com.au/~nsu

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