Hi, I'm reaching out for a bit of help. I have a K6-III 450AHX on a PC Chips M577 with IDE Seagate Medalist 6424 (6.5GB), loaded with Win98 on a single partition, which for a SS7 runs with good stability.

Anyway, I've been moving some cards around and added an SB AWE 64 and I've messed it up. After this it was not booting into Windows 98 (never-ending win98 screen) and I couldn't do a safeboot. I booted up using boot disk and I was struggling to load from C: drive.

Wrongly probably, I ran fdisk /mbr to try and fix boot issues which is where it went really wrong. Btw, I don't have a back-up of the MBR

Bios sees the disk OK but won't load. It says "Starting Windows 98" but wants to find the command com on the A: drive. Consequently it will load a boot disk but doesn't see C: on the HDD at all. However it will nominate the CD drive as C: when running boot disk with CD-ROM support.

I've had a look in fdisk, the partition is Active, but it is reporting the HDD as a 6.4 GB 'Non-Dos' partition rather than 'PRI DOS'.

I don't want to re-format and lose everything that is on the drive, and would like to recover the Win 98 configuration as it was before., so I think my issue is how do I convert the primary partition on the HDD from 'Non-DOS' to 'PRI DOS'?

If someone is handy with the fdisk and MBR tools and commands for a bit of advice on fixing this without losing the data that will be great.

Thanks