disappearing partitions

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heres a weird one
i backed up some 6 gig of data from a 20 gig drive loaded with win 95
to a master drive on IDE 2 [80gig] which is split into 4 partitions
.....
i then formatted the 20gig drive and loaded win98se...
when i went back to get the data i could not access 2 of the 4
partitions on the master IDE 2 drive.....
[FREAKOUT :( VERY BAD]
right clicking on properties showed the drive not formatted
however when booting into safe mode i can see all partitions and am
moving the data back as i write this

anybody have a tip or explanation for this very scary occurence???
 
ray said:
heres a weird one
i backed up some 6 gig of data from a 20 gig drive loaded with win 95
to a master drive on IDE 2 [80gig] which is split into 4 partitions
....
i then formatted the 20gig drive and loaded win98se...
when i went back to get the data i could not access 2 of the 4
partitions on the master IDE 2 drive.....
[FREAKOUT :( VERY BAD]
right clicking on properties showed the drive not formatted
however when booting into safe mode i can see all partitions and am
moving the data back as i write this

anybody have a tip or explanation for this very scary occurence???
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Something to do with Win95 using FAT16, and Win98 using FAT32? I'm not
sure either.
 
ray said:
heres a weird one
i backed up some 6 gig of data from a 20 gig drive loaded with win 95
to a master drive on IDE 2 [80gig] which is split into 4 partitions
....
i then formatted the 20gig drive and loaded win98se...
when i went back to get the data i could not access 2 of the 4
partitions on the master IDE 2 drive.....
[FREAKOUT :( VERY BAD]
right clicking on properties showed the drive not formatted
however when booting into safe mode i can see all partitions and am
moving the data back as i write this

anybody have a tip or explanation for this very scary occurence???
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I don't know for sure...
but in safe mode, windows just loads minimal drivers
so may have something to do with the specific ide drivers
 
ray said:
heres a weird one
i backed up some 6 gig of data from a 20 gig drive loaded with win 95
to a master drive on IDE 2 [80gig] which is split into 4 partitions
....
i then formatted the 20gig drive and loaded win98se...
when i went back to get the data i could not access 2 of the 4
partitions on the master IDE 2 drive.....
[FREAKOUT :( VERY BAD]
right clicking on properties showed the drive not formatted
however when booting into safe mode i can see all partitions and am
moving the data back as i write this

anybody have a tip or explanation for this very scary occurence???
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Could you have been using some kind of "partition manager"?
 
ray said:
heres a weird one
i backed up some 6 gig of data from a 20 gig drive loaded with win 95
to a master drive on IDE 2 [80gig] which is split into 4 partitions
....
i then formatted the 20gig drive and loaded win98se...
when i went back to get the data i could not access 2 of the 4
partitions on the master IDE 2 drive.....
[FREAKOUT :( VERY BAD]
right clicking on properties showed the drive not formatted
however when booting into safe mode i can see all partitions and am
moving the data back as i write this

anybody have a tip or explanation for this very scary occurence???
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Could you have been using some kind of "partition manager"?
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no partition managers...file system showing on the inaccessible
partitions was FAT not FAT 32...the drive was partitioned with FDISK
[the updated version]....the puzzle is why is partition accessible
only in safe mode?
 
ok, i could be totally backwards here. but heres a guess.

the original windows 95 didn't come with fat32, only fat16.



na, doesn't make since does it?
thats a good one
 
Pete said:
ok, i could be totally backwards here. but heres a guess.

the original windows 95 didn't come with fat32, only fat16.
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Correct. 95a was FAT16 only. 95b and 95c were capable of using FAT32.
 
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