Hello all. Here we go....
I used partition magic to partition a 20gig 2.5" drive installed in one of my desktop systems with an IDE adapter. Windows will not recognize the drive after using PM, before all was fine. I have tried booting with several boot cd's/floppys. The best I can get is when using win98 boot cd-"invalid partition table". I was stupid when first using PM as I did not make emergency discs at the time. I have tried to make PM's emergency discs after the fact but they are drive dependant(only work with recognized drive at time discs were made). Heres the real kicker...when I enter bios and and have it auto-detect attached drives it finds the 20gig no problem:however, when the computer boots up and auto-detects drives I get "primary slave", or wherever the drive may be attached to failure. I can not figure out why it will recognize the drive one minute and not the next. When I run FDISK i get message that no logical drives are attached. PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks all.
Josh