Even if the computers BIOS will handle more than 137 gig, Win 98/SE/ME is limited 
to 137 gig.  It doesn't support 48 bit LBA needed to address more than 137 gig so 
you will corrupt the drive/files if you attempt to write to regions beyond that limit 
on the drive, even if partitioned.  There is no repair for corrupted data.  Also, 
the Win 9X drive maintenance utilities won't handle the regions beyond 137 gig barriar 
so they will also corrupt your data when they run and access the regions above 137 
gig.  Your whole drive will probably corrupt at that point.

Read here:

http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm

Again, when corruption takes place, there is no repair/recovery.  Hope you have backups!!! 
 :-(

You will need to move the data off the drive and partition it to 137 gig, or a few 
gig less to be safe, and not partition the rest, or if you do, just not use it.  
To be safe though, if you are only using it on a Win 9X system, is to just not partition 
the rest of the space and only use the first 137 gig so that you don't risk the corruption 
problem again.  Sadly this pertians to a drive connected to the IDE ports internally, 
or a USB drive.  It's an OS issue that MS has no intention of fixing as it is out 
of support and would need some extensive rewriting to fix, and there are no fixes 
or utilities from the drive manufacturers as it is an OS issue.  The DDO programs 
were for a different issue involving the BIOS, NOT the OS..  Sorry..







On Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 6:50 pm, Darkstalker wrote:

>I recently got a 250 GB usb hdd from lacie. I put things on the hard drive and it 

>reported the free&used space fine. When I restarted the pc it went through the process 

>of recognizing it as new hardware even though it was able to recognize it before. 

>It changed the free&used space to if it was unused and will only report space being 

>used for newly added files and not the previously added ones. In the past I would 

>have used scandisk to repair the boot record to fix this but since the hard drive 

>is >137GB and I am on win98se I don't think I could. I need a disk repair utility 

>for win98se that can handle hard drives >137GB that lacie didn't provide with the 

>hard drive.

>

>Lacie thinks this is a symptom of data corruption and wants me to partition+format 

>the hdd with their program. The previously added data and new data aren't corrupt. 

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