I am running WIN98 on my PC with a master and a slave drive. Each drive is 40GB and separated into a primary and two logical drives.
Because of a lot of junk that had installed itself from the internet, that I couldn't get to delete, and a lot of unpredictable behavior I decided to reinstall WIN98. First I reformatted just the C: drive.
Once everything was installed I was only able to see the drives associated with my master drive. I went into FDISK to see if I could tell what was going on and discovered that the partitions were all missing and only a singe partition of 21%, labelled "NON-DOS", existed on the slave drive. Finding that strange I thought I would try to correct things by creating a DOS partition (hoping it would replace the NON-DOS). All it did was make another partition. I exited FDISK without rebooting. Concerned about this change I restarted FDISK and removed the partition. Again, after doing either action I did not allow the computer to reboot for the actions to take effect.
I then shut down the PC, disconnected the slave drive and allowed the system to reboot without it (hoping that any 'changes' that I had made would not take effect). Next I shut down, reconnected the slave drive and rebooted again. FDISK is now showing the singe partition of 21% labelled "NON-DOS". Hopefully I am back to where I started.
Is there any hope of recovering all of my database, photo and program files from my slave drive?
