First post, by captain_koloth
I have an old Windows 95 PC with HDDs on both C and D, original Win 95 release. As it's getting to its last legs I imaged the drives and made a PCEm clone of the PC (kind of a cool technology that you can do that now).
The real PC has an issue where I'd say about 50% of the time it will recognize the D drive in the BIOS but it won't appear in Windows. I am able to access D from the DOS prompt, even the one within Windows. Usually rebooting helps this problem and the D drive will then appear normally. I assumed this issue was related to some hardware component failure, but the PCEm clone not only has the same issue but rebooting doesn't help there, so there must be a software problem (that is, some information somewhere on C or D is clearly not configured properly).
I can see D in the DOS prompt in PCEm, but not through the Windows interface. The drive is 2 GB and properly formatted and partitioned. I put it here rather than in emulation since as indicated above I believe the underlying issue is one with the real computer's configuration rather than with emulation. Any ideas on what could be wrong here?