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Skriven 2005-02-25 11:54:02 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JIM HOLSONBACK
Ärende: Win98FE Harddrivicide?
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-> -=> on 02-25-05 09:32, JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to ALL <=-

Don't bother, it's toast.

->  JH> Crossposted to the WIN95 and TECH echoes.

->  JH> Hello, ALL.  I'm trying to help Wayne C. with some 'puter problems he
->  JH> is currently having, and some of them are beyond my ken.

->  JH> I'm posting here in order that we may both have the benefit of the tech
->  JH> advice of others, and for critique in case I give him any bad advice.
->  JH> This will be a series of posts, in order to try and address the probs
->  JH> one issue at a time.

->  JH> This was partially discussed in the Win95 echo back in Dec.
->  JH> For background, he has an older Celeron 433 system, and his mobo
->  JH> BIOS will not support HDD larger than 8GB or so.  
   
32 Gig.

-> He has obtained a
->  JH> 65 GB HDD, and intended to install a dual-boot configuration of Linux
->  JH> and Win98FE. His recent project was to install a Promise Ultra66 biosed
->  JH> controller card in order to access capacity of the HDD, and to run it
->  JH> faster than the UDMA33 supported by his onboard controller. He relates
->  JH> that he had partitioned the HDD correctly using the FDISK utility
->  JH> from Linux, setting aside an 8GB partition for exclusive use by
->  JH> Winders.

This worked well, too well as it allowed the defective Windows's
98 first release defective fdisk to scramble the hard drive.

Prior to attempting to load windows first after partitioning Linux type
0C Fat 32 8 Gig, type 82 linux swap, type 83 Linux native, type 83 Linux
native. loading windows first the defective fdisk failed safe.
Once I did a successful fdisk with Linux the OEM software CD trashed the
drive.
Now neither CMOS no Linux sees the drive.      

->  JH> Disaster struck when he went to install Win98FE from an OEM
-> disc. It
->  JH> appears that the Linux FDISKed the HDD to full 65GB, and in the Win98
->  JH> installation process, somehow, Windows FDISK was run.  Win98FE has a
->  JH> problem with HDD>64MB, and it appears that the damn thing
->  JH> wrapped-around the HDD addressing, overwriting his MBR.  He now says
->  JH> that the HDD is dead beyond any recovery, can't be FDISKed or even
->  JH> recognized in his system.

->  JH> Question - -  how can his HDD be saved?

If no BIOS or Linux can see it it can't be saved.
I may buy a 20 Gig Seagate drive and see if I can slave
the drive to the 65 Gig and using the www.wdc.com
disk rescue utility to see if that works however doubtful.
Presumably if it can detect the drive it will LLF it
and restore it however as nothing now detects the drive
I find this doubtful.
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