Regaining HD from previous install

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I have been running a dual boot Win98SE and Win 2000-Sp4 for a few
months with very few problems or concerns ... until recently, that is.

First, Win-2000 lost it's pagefile.sys (which I fixed from info gained
here), but today it reported that the ntoskrnl.exe was either missing
or corrupt. Nothing I did or could find info on helped ... soooo, I
deleted (uninstalled) Win-2000.

I run 2 physical drives, partitioned into 4 (C,D,E,F) and had mounted
Win-2000 on drive "D" (first partition, second drive).

In trying to repair the original install, Win-2k reports no room left
on the drive when there was 32Mb free.

After uninstalling Win-2k and cleaning up the drive, a fresh install
attempt to drive "D", still says there is NO space left when there is
now over 36 Mb.

My question (finally) ... what is remaining that Win-2k reads that is
causing this and how do I recapture that drive for use with Win-2k?

Any help will be appreciated ...
 
Assuming you are installing to the correct drive, try disconnecting 2nd hd,
then booting with win cd and deleting partition D, then recreating
 
Assuming you are installing to the correct drive, try
disconnecting 2nd hd, then booting with win cd and deleting
partition D, then recreating
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Yes ... I found an answer .. not THE answer and not one I liked but the
only one available for now and similar to yours.

BTW, if you think about it ... 2 drives, each partitioned into two? ...
"D" IS the first partition on the SECOND drive.

Anyway .. Win 2000 writes something near 66kb in the boot sector of the
hard drive which it then reads and from which it get's it's opinion on
drive status .. by IT'S interpretation.

The only way I remedied this (and the only way I know) was to copy all
other data OFF the drive, fdisk then format and then ... Voila!!! ..
Win 2000 does then see the drive as empty. Even with NO data, W-2k said
the drive was full (0 bytes available) until I cleaned it totally.

As I said .. maybe not THE answer and definitely not the answer I
wanted, but is was AN answer. A genuine pain in the rear for a
supposedly smart GUI.
 
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