Wierd problem involving pahtom hard disks

[Mike3d]

I have a hp brio in for repair that wont boot so i went into safe mode and there a 2 hard disks in my computer.

There is only one hard disk fitted physically and it is not partitioned.

the phantom drive is exactly the same size as the first one.

The hard disk is a 10gb (have tried others) both the hard disks in my comp are 10 gb in size and have exactly the same data on both.

so i thought to myself i will ghost a windows 98 image on it with norton ghost.

ghost also see's 2 hard disks there as does fdisk.

so is the ide controller daffy ducked ?

im about to try it on the secondary ide controller with the cdrom.

thanx mike

[Mike3d]

i have also tried changing the ide cable.

[bistro]

Both Win 95 and 98 have had phantom drive bugs. Which OS is this? Check out Config.sys: If it has a line in there "LASTDRIVE=Z", then change the letter designator to the actual "number" of drives there are in the system. (i.e. floppy, one hard drive and a CD, then LASTDRIVE=D). This helps prevent Windows from assigning a phantom drive. If the line ISN'T there, then Windows will automatically set the Lastdrive to equal "Z", then sometimes that allows that phantom bug to pop up.
You could also try this: In Config.sys, there may be a line there...."BUFFERS=12,0"...if that second number is anything other than "0", that could be the cause of the problem...reset it to "0".

[Mike3d]

thanx for your reply.

this actually happens on 2 seperate hard disk's 1 has 98se and the other ripped straight out of a working machine that has 95 on it.