Re: fdisk problem...
From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 03/04/04
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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 05:09:00 -0800
J wrote:
> ...asked in win98.gen_discussion yesterday. No answers ...probably i
> was a
> bit too boring ? well, u have to explain yourself don't u ?
>
> Can anyone tell me what's going on here:-
>
> I built my Aunty a system box with a PcChips M848alu / xp2200+ 768mb
> pc2100 13gb WD hd as master on first IDE 80 core ribbon, with XP pro
> sp1a all installed and Windows updated and it's lovely and very well
> behaved. Msi cd-rom / Liteon 52x?x? whatever rw drive, both on a 2nd
> IDE 80 core ribbon, jumpered master and slave respectively.
>
> Now, I jumpered her older 5gb hd, (which had W98se on an active
> partition and an extended partition with several logical drives in
> it), as slave drive and connected it up on the first ribbon as a slave
> drive, went straight into the bios and auto-detected the drives, all
> ok, set boot order to cd/dvd first, and booted with a W98se bootable
> cd-rom with Powerquest's ptedit.exe on it and changed 0B 80 to 05 00
> ,which I think was a mistake because 05 is
> FAT32 not FAT32X...which I think would have been a mistake as well,
> but, all I was interested in doing was making the active, partition on
> her old W98se hd non-active.
>
> Anyway, I ran Norton Systemworks diskdoctor which put that right, I
> think it changed the drive type to 0C or FAT32X if memory serves, so
> perhaps I should
> have run ptedit again and gone for 0F "0F extended x"
>
> When I boot from a bootable W98se cd, it boots to the a: prompt, and
> when I run fdisk.exe (the revised fdisk that supports hd's parger than
> 64gb - even though I'm dealing with a 13 and 5 gb hd's), it starts
> okay, then when I hit enter or press "y" or "n" at the "Enable large
> hard disk support" fdisk screen, I get a black screen with a blinking
> underscore where the "y" or "n" was and a lock up.
>
> How can I get that 2nd 5gb hd in as a slave drive ?
>
> Any help appreicated.
>
> I just know that someone is going to say, "get the hd's manufacturers
> zero-fill utility and zero fill it." !
>
> J
Yes, well you actually didn't need to go to all that fancy trouble of
making the drive inactive. Now, just boot with a normal, old Win98
bootup floppy - not the newer one, but the one that would have come
with the original Win98 installation. If that doesn't sort you out,
then download a partition mgr. like Partition Magic trial version or
BootItNG trial version and delete the partition on the Win98 drive and
create a new one. Format it either ntfs or fat32 and leave it as a
slave drive in your Aunt's machine for data. Zeroing out the drive will
do nothing to help your problem, although it is rather fun to do.
Malke
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