partitions "appear" empty

[newgrasshopper]

I had no idea where to ask this but since it started with installing Win98se, I thought I would try here. Sorry if it is not the right forum.

My son installed win98se over win95. Everything seemed to go alright until the final boot. There was nothing there, no icons, taskbar, etc. So he used partition magic to create another primary drive to install it clean. He converted all partitions to fat32 from fat used under win95 before installing win98se. Everything went perfect except he can no longer see any files in the other partitions. He tried the "find" function and the files are there and he can copy and paste to the c: drive and they work. He can paste them back to the original drive and it will now show up in the drive but it doesn't ask if he wants to replace the same file that is already on the drive.

Anybody know how to make these files show up without the risk of losing these files? Copying and pasting every file (sounds like 3g worth) would take a long time on his older pc but that is the only solution we can come up with ourselves.

Thanks, Paul

 

[Confide]

Sounds like a bit of a mess, there might be a better way to do it, but honestly in that position i would burn all that i wanted to save, and low level format the whole drive an then re-load win98se, and reload all the files you burned to a disk, i'll look for a better solution, as there may be one, but for now that is all i can think of.

Sometimes its jus easier to back up and re-load rather then spend hours trying to find a way around all that.

As always Good Luck!
Confide