Drive C is duplicated as drive D

[djmtek]

I just did a clean install of Win98 on an old custom built computer having an Asus P/I-P55T2P4 mobo w. a Western Digital 31600 HDD. After completing the install, the computer would not boot and I had to force compatibility mode disk access. This allowed me to start windows but now I show two drives, c and d, when there should only be one. D is identical to c (contains windows, etc).

I thought the drive controller problem and the duplicate drives were related but I could not solve the 32 bit driver problem so decided to install a copy of w95 to see what would happen. IT went well, it booted into w95 fine, did not seem to be any compat. issues, but once again showed two drives. Any thoughts?

 

[torturedmind]

hmmm... wierd. you could try going to dos and issue

subst d: /d

just to confirm if the c: drive is being set virtually as d:.

hope this helps. peace!

kilroy
philippines

"Once a king, always a king. But being a knight is more than enough."

 

[djmtek]

I just noticed that I no longer have a cd drive. It has been replaced with the duplicate of drive c, now listed as ddisk1_vol1). In DOS, all is well. C is the hdd, d is the cdrom. (So doing a subst disconnect did not work.) If this was a faulty ide contoller, would I have problems in dos as well? But if it were a windows thing (eg. bad driver), then reinstalling w98 should have solved it, but it didn't. Any help fixing this would be much appreciated.