T30 - Invalid drive specification after...

[robert213]

I used T30 Recovery CD's to install Windows XP Pro on my new Hitachi 7K100 HDD. Then, I used Norton's Partition Magic 8.0 to build a "D:" drive to keep my user data seperate from my program and system files. After I was happy with my install, I used Acronis True Image Home 11 to preserve a copy on a second new 7K100 HDD.

During this process, I created several DOS bootable Start-up diskettes...
1) Windows 98 Standard
2) Windows 98 Second Edition
ver - "Windows 98 V4.10.2222
3) Windoes XP Pro
ver - "Windows Millenium V4.90.3000"

All of the above was done two years ago.

This afternoon, I decided to try to use DOS Scandisk to check HDD for errors. Since my DOS Prompt window ([Start][Run]"command.com) locks up when using DOS Scandisk, I decided to start my T30 using each of my startup diskettes.

I have placed my 1.44 MB diskette drive in the Ultra-bay of my T30.

Whenever I enter "C:" or "D:", I receive "Invalid drive specification" error message.

I can access both "C:" and "D:" in Win XP Pro using DOS Prompt window.

I can access fixed disk drive number "1" using FDISK and Partition Magic.

However, I can't access my HDD files.

Any thoughts???

[RealBlackStuff]

Those boot floppies all expect FAT32 partitions, and most likely they are in NTFS, which DOS can not read.

[robert213]

Those boot floppies all expect FAT32 partitions, and most likely they are in NTFS, which DOS can not read.

Thank you for your prompt reply.

I just used Partition Magic to see all of the drives on my Win 98 SE Desktop machine. Yes, all of its drives are either FAT16 or FAT32.

I forgot that NTFS replaced FAT32.

I guess that I expected that the DOS startup diskette that I created using Win XP...

right-click,[Format...][Create an MS-DOS startup disk]

to be able to access NTFS files.