I wanted to be a nice guy and fix my wife's PC. Because when we first got it we installed PC-Cillin AV software, and then switched over to AVG... but even when I tried to remove the PC-Cillin it continued to try and re-install on every single boot. You could cancel through it, but you also got a fatal error message, and the machine would lock up every once in a while.
Just for some background, it's a 850 AMD, 40 Gig HDD ultra HDD, has a CD Burner, floppy, and generally speaking it runs pretty good for my wife and daughter. The OS is W2K Pro.
So... since the girls have tons of music (my daughter buys iTunes) stored on the machine along with loads of MP3s (actually about 6 gigs worth). I figured I'd use Partition Magic which I bought a few years ago, v.6.0 which is W2K compatible. Was going to create a new partition, move all the music and a few other picture files to the area. Did all that, everything went along real nice... I made a 20 Gig NTFS partition, so the C: [root] would be around 18 gigs NTFS. Everything went along just swell until I tried to use the W2K CD to re-format C:\. Now I can't boot the machine except with the PM Emergency Disks (1 & 2), and while the partitions show up there... in my PC's BIOS, I'm being told there is no HDD Master (or slave), just a slave CD-ROM drive. PM uses Dr. DOS (I think), so when I put in an old W98 boot disk to try and get things going, I get a message stating that I have the wrong OS.
My problems seem to be:
1. I can't get my PC to acknowledge that the drive is there.
2. If I get the drive recognized, I don't want to lose all the music.
3. I'm not sure whether there's another way to install W2K and make sure it goes on the newly resized primary partition (C:\).
4. Would it help to get a boot disk file from someblace like bootdisk.com?
Any/all help... greatly appreciated. My alternative is to go out and buy a new HDD, start from scratch, and slave the old drive. But I gotta believe that somebody can decipher this mess. The wife and daughter are not happy .
Doc
Just for some background, it's a 850 AMD, 40 Gig HDD ultra HDD, has a CD Burner, floppy, and generally speaking it runs pretty good for my wife and daughter. The OS is W2K Pro.
So... since the girls have tons of music (my daughter buys iTunes) stored on the machine along with loads of MP3s (actually about 6 gigs worth). I figured I'd use Partition Magic which I bought a few years ago, v.6.0 which is W2K compatible. Was going to create a new partition, move all the music and a few other picture files to the area. Did all that, everything went along real nice... I made a 20 Gig NTFS partition, so the C: [root] would be around 18 gigs NTFS. Everything went along just swell until I tried to use the W2K CD to re-format C:\. Now I can't boot the machine except with the PM Emergency Disks (1 & 2), and while the partitions show up there... in my PC's BIOS, I'm being told there is no HDD Master (or slave), just a slave CD-ROM drive. PM uses Dr. DOS (I think), so when I put in an old W98 boot disk to try and get things going, I get a message stating that I have the wrong OS.
My problems seem to be:
1. I can't get my PC to acknowledge that the drive is there.
2. If I get the drive recognized, I don't want to lose all the music.
3. I'm not sure whether there's another way to install W2K and make sure it goes on the newly resized primary partition (C:\).
4. Would it help to get a boot disk file from someblace like bootdisk.com?
Any/all help... greatly appreciated. My alternative is to go out and buy a new HDD, start from scratch, and slave the old drive. But I gotta believe that somebody can decipher this mess. The wife and daughter are not happy .
Doc