Formating Drive Win 98se

[Barnabus]

I am trying to format my drive. Have done this before without problems. This time when partitioning the drive to fat32 it only reads 8025 Megs of my 20 Gig hard drive. I am capable of installing windows 95se but the drive size is very small. Can you please assist me?

 

[TekTippy4U]

See this

TT4U

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[Barnabus]

O.K. I will trust you. Originally when I installed the drive I used the install disket that came with it. Unfortunately I could not find it. I can download it form the Western Digital website (Data Lifeguard v11.0 for DOS). Is this what you are refering to as a DDO software?

 

[TekTippy4U]

That may help.. .yes, sounds correct. I know Maxtor has a Software diskette which allows large HDD support....That'll probably do it for you then...Once done -- Make a Backup. The tools on the Disk may allow you to take a snapshot of the partition tables either after using it to allocate Disk Space or once you're up and running.
You had never mentioned the HDD manu. or the fact that you had used their tools disk in the past.
Oh well

TT4U

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[Barnabus]

My appologies for not mentioning those details before, I will try this these evening and let you know if it worked. Just a small note, I think your website is AWESOME! I am so glad that this service is available.

 

[TekTippy4U]

Barnabus..If you're referring to Tek-tips web site..I'm delighted to hear that as I'm sure the forum owners are as well......I am just a measly forum Member and there's plenty of talent around here, and the site itself is user friendly and the ppl are great.....
Thanks for the compliments
(hope my username - tektippy4u- , here at the forums, didn't throw ya off)

visit any of the many forums (divided by topics, etc.) and check out the FAQ area as well

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TT4U

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[Barnabus]

TekTippy4U,
Question: When should I install the diskette for my hard drive (Data Lifeguard v11.0 for DOS)? Do I do this after I have done an fdisk or before and do I need to have a partition already created? I know I need to format after the bois reads all my drive but I'm not sure of the previously mentioned.

 

[edfair]

You will probably be downloading a version of Ontrack's DDO that has been modified to work strictly with WD drives. Manufacturers do that to get their larger hard drives into the marketplace for older systems.
I'm not as negative as tt4u on the use of DDOs but prefer to use drives accessible by the BIOS where possible, but I will use it to keep from needing additional hardware.

During this install how about documenting what settings you use? Paste the writeup somewhere on or in the machine so you don't have to go through this again. Unless you are into S&M. This is a fairly repeatable procedure since hard drives die pretty regularly.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[TekTippy4U]

I'm not against saving a couple of bucks either, when it comes to using manu. bundled DDO (naturally, a BIOS upgrade is preferred by me).....my motto is if it does what it's supposed to do and it's free and not loaded with spyware (DDOs usually are not in this category) and you have an itching to learn...go for it.
It's good to save the settings, as long as you haven't modified them from original parameters that worked previously (as you say...did it already once). If you only altered the jumper switch on the mobo to set the faster CPU, then all should be fine.
pretty sure it's a matter of booting from an OEM cd or a win98 (se) startup floppy and then inserting the WD tools disk (switch to A:\ if necessary once booted).
more

http://support.wdc.com/faqs/software/dlgtools.asp

TT4U

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[Barnabus]

I was able to solve my issue, I moved the harddriive to my other computer that can read the full twenty Gig's, installed the OS, I then intalled the drive into the original computer, installed the utilities from the DDO software from the hard drive manufacturer and WALLA! This is what I call getting around the issue. Unfortunately if I wanted to use this computer I had no other choice but to use the DDO software.

I have another question: Can any of you help me with the format of writing the path that I am setting up when networking Win98 with WinXP (\\??\\)?. When I printed my instructions but this information did not print. Additionally, where in my winXP can I varify the information that I need to enter into this path that I am creating?

 

[sunshine8716]

I changed to Fat32, now that I cant change back, how do I get my CDROM ro run. It quit as soon as I changed to FAT32.
I', also missing some .dll files in which I beleive they are on my win98 installation disk. Unfortunatley I cannot use it. error says D:/ is not accessible.
Any help out there??????

 

[edfair]

How about putting this in a new thread? People see this as a 29 post thread from mid 2004 and they avoid it like the plague.
You can delete the hardware in device mangler and let the system find it again on the next boot.


Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.