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Haddo,
That Don't sound good plus the HD is not recognized on other machines.
One last try.
Put the HD in another machine as you did.
Boot from the Win98 boot disk in the floppy drive into old dos.
If the boot disk has the program Fdisk on it, try this.
FDISK (Drive Letter): /MBR and see if that restores any HD readability.
I think the HD as (dropped a bit) out of its drive table.
Let's see if ScottW has some more ideas.
Regards,
Rick P.
Haddo,
Reading back through the postings; if the drive was formatted in FAT32 and you tried it in other machines and in Dos, then the only thing I can think of considering all the attempted solutions, is that the HD has lost its drive tables which makes it unreadable thusly unformatted even though it still has all your info intact on it.
If it has irreplaceable valuable info on it, I would try to have it professionally recovered.
Otherwise, format is most likely your only solution to use the drive again.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Rick P.
Haddo,
No problem at all with the response time. I have been out of town for a week myself and just returned. As I indicated in my last reply, I just disliked being the bearer of bad news concerning the hard drive, especially for a "non-profit" organization. I do hope the information recovery process is very successful. Let us know how it goes.
Kindest Regards,
Rick P. ♣
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