2nd hdd dosmode file system

Go into Safe Mode, delete the device with the exclamation mark, reboot the PC and Windows 95 should redetect the device and load the correct drivers (from the Windows 95 CD-ROM).

Go here for trobleshooting info on Dos compatibility mode problems:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q130/1/79.asp

To save time in solving your problem, it will be helpful to know more about your computer.

Please list the components of your system that might apply.
(Motherboard, CPU, RAM, Hard Drive(s), CD-ROM, Soundcard, etc.)
Also, please post your autoexec.bat & config.sys files.

Let me know if you need more.
Regards,
Ralph

under the performance tab in the device manager does it give you a reason the drive is in ms-dos mode?  ie:the master boot record has changed.  if so go into your bios and turn off virus warning then from a dos promt type fdisk /mbr.  

if this works let me know and i'll repost this as an answer


Bill

delete the line with the hiphon, but before look in the manual of your motherboard which kind of chipset you've got on it. maybe you will find next to the manual an disk with "PCI IDE drivers" on it, there will you find instuctions to install the chipset correctly. An other reason could be, that you have switched off the auto-detection at your bios or and old cd-rom-drive is connected to the socind ide-controller.
good luck.

andi

graceco,
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regards,
Ralph

Have been away for weekend. Will try the comments and answer in 24 hrs or so. Grant

Also I have reproduced the same problem on another computer which I do not have the manual for. It is a pentium 75 with 16mb Ram. Master HDD is 210mb and the sec. on the same tape is a 170mb.
It has brought up the msdos file system and Sec ide with the yellow tag in system devices. The cdrom is attached via an interface card poss panasonic.
Grant. (On NZ Time re previous comment)

I found the problem. I had used Ghost to ghost from a smaller drive to a larger drive and so it also transfered the format structure also. I fixed it by reformatting the larger drive and then copied files manually.
Grant
PS After 24 hrs I will withdraw the question.

Grant,
That won't fix the conflicts you had in Device Manager.

In order to run Win95 at all, it means that the drive was configured to have been installed correctly, without the conflicts.

I suggest that what fixed it was the format and subsequent correct re-install of Windows.

Sorry you had to do that.
Regards,
Ralph

Ralph, Watch this space. I Had the problem on the first computer that we had put the 4gig HDD into. We ghosted from a 2.1gig Quantum Fireball to a Fugitsu 4.3Gig. It showed up the file system error. So we changed the 2.1 for a 1.2 Quantum bigfoot brand new and it all came up ok. But when we changed back to the 2.1 it showed up again. So we fdisked and formatted the 2.1 and had it again as a secondary. Still problem. Then we manually copied the 4.3 to the 2.1 after doing fdisk/mbr on the 2.1. We were expecting to reformat the 4.3. But on rebbot before refomat with the 4.3 as master still the problem had disappeared.
  It is poss to have active partitions on both drives? Could that have any bearing. At present both c: and d: have active partitions.
Grant

Somethings wrong here.
I don't think Dos can have more than one active (bootable) partition.  There could be an error on the drive's MBR.
See if you find anything useful about it here:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q69/9/12.asp

Let me know.
Ralph

Ralph: only one bootable per physical drive but we have got 1 active on each of 2 physical drives.
Grant

Grant,
I don't know why that should happen.
Does your BIOS allow boot order to be set for any drive/CDROM?

Ralph

If your running a large format drive you may have a bios extension driver that is not fully Win95 compatible.....go to your config.sys files and REM out any drivers that are loading. if windows loads in the 32 bit mode you may have a driver that need updating...It will be hunt and peck...Microsoft have some good info on how to troubleshoot this problem but be prepared to spend a while solving it...

We finally solved the problem. We used Partition Magic. We deleted the active partition on the 2nd drive then set it as an extended partition. We then divided it in to 2 partitons. Rebooted and all was ok. Then deleted those so that Win95 thought it was a new drive again. It showed up because with partition magic it assigned the wrong drive letters to the drives.ie: c: to the first active partition and d: to the 2nd even though it was on the 2nd drive. But e: to the extended partition we made on the first drive. Ralph your querry about more than 1 active partition lead us to it. Set it as an answer if you wish. Grant

Ralph your mention of the MBR is significant because I did FDISK /MBR when it was set up in the new config and the problem didn't return. Many thanks for your help. Grant