Windows 95: a one and a two...

[tiffin_tom]

Here's one I've never seen before. Win95 machine has one physical hard drive. If you boot to a Win98 CD, fdisk sees one partition, but if you boot into Windows 95, it sees a C and a D drive. The first thing you are thinking right now is that it is a compressed drive.. Wrong. There is no compression and both C and D are the full size of the drive and identical. Create or remove something from C and the same happens in D. Remember there is only one physical drive.

Any clues..

BTW... we've scanned for viruses using the latest definitions from a boot CD (NAV 2000).

stumped here. <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">

[trinitro]

how large is the hard drive...and how large are the two partitions? If there is only one drive...and both partitions are the same size as the hard drive...then I'd say Win95 is having double vision... perhaps you may want to upgrade to 98. <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

[AlienDyne]

A friend of mine had a similar problem about.. hmmm.... 4-5 years ago. He scanned the machine with every single antivirus of that time. They found nothing. I'm not sure what caused this, but I believe it was a virus.
After formatting the machine, everything worked fine. <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0">

[Darren Wilson]

running FDISK /MBR sometimes work in this situation.

[USA 1]

Hey Trinto , he said one partition!

how large is the hard drive...and how large are the two partitions? If there is only one drive...and both partitions are the same size as the hard drive...then I'd say Win95 is having double vision... perhaps you may want to upgrade to 98.
Sounds like a mirroring thing to me but on FAT?NOT!

[tiffin_tom]

It's only a 2 GB drive and both partitions are 100% the size of the drive <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

Scanned with Norton boot CD (with latest defs.) on them.

I've been trying to get hold of the customer to have him bring in his Win95 CD. It's looking like we'll have to install fresh on another hard drive, transfer the data over, then format and transfer the data back over to the old one to get this one working right again <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0"> ahhh well.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

[King Grover]

does WIN98 show a 2G drive? just curious


wood

[tiffin_tom]

Actually, the drive is 2.5 GB (2441 MB in fdisk) and Win98 sees it as the same size.

I guess it means Win95 thinksit is twice as good <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">

[unixhelpguy]

It is posible that a 3rd party disk partion program,i.e. Wester Digital's EZ Drive, was used at one time. I have seen this happen and then when you do Fdisk you cannot get rid of the partition with out the 3rd party software. Do not know if that helps. but that is my 2cents.