disappearing hard drive

[devjoy]

I have recently installed a 20 gig hard. I put it as secondary master. I did an image copy of the primary master onto the new hard drive. All went well until .... I set the boot sequence to boot to the new drive in the BIOS. That went well. Then my Norton Antivirus doing it's routine weekly scan reported a change and asked if it should innoculate or repair. I forgot about having made the changes and told it to repair. Now the computer does not detect the new hard drive and I have exclamations beside the Primary IDE FIFO and Secondary FIFO. The hd is a Maxtor 7200 rpm 20 gig installed with MaxBlast plus ver 1.11. I have the BIOS set to auto detect all drives. I have already put some files on the new drive and don't won't to have to reformat. Please help. I need to be able to access the file on the new hard drive. Thanks

[Nathan]

I would go back and set it up the way you had it before and drop the image back on it and try again.

[deep_sky]

I personally like to have the bootable device as the primary master and the other hard drive as slave and stick my cdrom as master on its own channel. what did norton repair? the new drive or the old one?

i also would never use the maxblast diskette to setup a drive. what i would do is this, take the old drive out and set the new one as primary master, get the files you want off of the hd onto a zip or floppy, shut down, and get your boot disk, then use that to boot to the a:/ prompt and format it using fdisk. when you use the maxblast diskette, it uses its own way of formatting and partitioning,called an overlay, which supposedly makes things easier if you need to restore, but i heard of so many problems with it that I would stick with fdisk. that way yor are getting a drive that is formatted and partition with no other information on it.
from what you described, norton detected the new drive and thought something was wrong and "fixed" it. if you cannot get those files by setting new drive as primary master, then you might have to bite the bullet and format that new drive using fdisk.

as to the exclamations, what does it say when you go look at the properties?

[This message has been edited by deep_sky (edited 12-11-1999).]

[Dave_H]

devjoy
I don't think you will be able to repair what happened. I'm sorry.

In your post "New 20 gig hard drive Advice needed", I mentioned the warning that norton gave me when testing my rescue disc. something about"warning norton has detected a drive overlay in use and attempting a repair will cause irreversible damage to your data". (someting like that)

Like I said, I hate having this max blast
EZ-Drive overlay on my drive and next time I
re-format, I will not use it.

Also herd that it can be real hard to remove from your drive once it's on it. I recall seeing an exellent thread here at this forum on how to remove it.

Here it is, it was from the member "Pantion"

Remove E-Z Drive (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum2/HTML/003537.html)

Hope you have the disk image still and are able to get everything back without much trouble.

Dave

[devjoy]

I have finally gotten it working again. I've only pulled out two double hands full of hair and turned twice a gray headed. It was an absolute pain. I reinstalled the hard drive and recopied the data from the old hard drive. I kept getting all kinds of errors including "invalid systems disk". I can't even remember all the steps I took to get it back to booting normally. Thanks for all the suggestions. I hope I never make a mistake like that again.