Resolved - Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions
Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 2:22 am
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Posted by Alan
(16 messages posted)
OK, this query can be closed, with thanks to Bob and Ed for their contributions.
I decided not to use FDISK but rather to use the Western Digital tools since it is
a WD drive.
I copied everything from the "suspect" drive and examined it with Western Digital
Data Lifeguard. No problems found. I re-formatted it using Data Lifeguard as a
single FAT32 partition of 40GB. Returning to Windows (I have now installed WinXP
(see my earlier post) rather than Win98) it was NOT accessible - Windows reported
a logical drive but claimed it as not formatted. So I returned to WD Data Lifeguard
and re-partitioned it into an 8GB volume and a 32GB volume - on returning to WinXP,
Windows was quite happy with both of these as new logical drives.
So I assume the problems were all caused by my BIOS not supporting a drive of greater
than 32GB? I now understand that when I first installed the disc this limitation
was overcome with a special conversion table to allow large volume addressing (WD
"EZ Drive") in a small extra partition. This may have been damaged at some time
such as when I once installed a Linux OS, or simply may not be compatible with later
versions of Windows.
I therefore *hope* that the problem is now resolved, but cannot find anything relevant
in for example the WD site FAQ.
On the plus side this has forced me to buy an external 320GB USB drive and now I
can make regular backups.
Alan
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