two c:\ on same hard drive

[jgmanu]

after i installed a new wd hard drive i copied my old drive onto the new formatted wd drive. when i first booted up i got the message "missing operating system" when i booted the second time i first see two drive c:\ prompts in the window. the system then boots fine. I have been working like this for a while. when i use my bootdisk the fdisk to read partitions it shows only one primary partition. when i go to drive c: and type dir /p i only see 15 or so system files. and cannot find second partition. any thoughts

[Dodge]

Hi and welcome to cybertech.

When you created the partition on the new drive, did you create more than one partition?
When you use Fdisk, does it show the One partition using 100% of the drive space and is it correct?

[mawil]

When booting, at post, before getting into windows, is this what you see?

c:>
c:>

[jgmanu]

Originally Posted by mawil

When booting, at post, before getting into windows, is this what you see?

c:>
c:>

yes I see two c: prompts when i do a second boot.

[mawil]

I had the same problem once. It was caused by extra blank lines at the end of the autoexec.bat file. Doesn't do any harm but you can edit the autoexec.bat file and delete them if that is what is causing it.

[jgmanu]

Originally Posted by Dodge

Hi and welcome to cybertech.

When you created the partition on the new drive, did you create more than one partition?
When you use Fdisk, does it show the One partition using 100% of the drive space and is it correct?

i used western digital disk copy program to to copy my old hard drive to the new drive. fdisk sees one partition and the correct size.
thanks, jim

[jgmanu]

Originally Posted by mawil

I had the same problem once. It was caused by extra blank lines at the end of the autoexec.bat file. Doesn't do any harm but you can edit the autoexec.bat file and delete them if that is what is causing it.

i tried the edit and found extra lines deleted them but still get "missing operating system" on the first boot.
Thanks, Jim