Re: Need help with a totally avoidable problem

Frog Prince wrote:
> "indigo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> |
> | Are you sure you don't have a FAT32/NTFS problem? That would lead
> | to the error msg you're seeing, IIRC.
>
> Not sure how to answer that question but the OS is Windows2000 pro
> and I've tried to access as a secondary drive on another machine with
> the same OS.

If the machine was upgraded from Win98x you probably still have FAT32
partitions. When I upgraded to 2000 I bit the bullet and reformatted to NTFS
(cost a lot of time and labor to reinstall every single piece of software,
that's why a lot of folks don't do it).

>
> BTW the HDD from the second machine boots on the 'bad' machine.

Others have chimed in with different explanations, so mine is probably not
the failure mechanism you're seeing. IIRC, when I rebuilt my machine last
winter I had to reflash the BIOS because it had lost track of what kind of
drive I had (#cylinders etc) and the machine wouldn't boot (or maybe it was
because I installed a new MoBo, I forget, but it had me tearing my hair out
until I resolved it, that's for sure!)