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John Baum
I have a 40 GB IBM Deskstar 60GXP Ultra ATA/100 hard disk drive. It
contains no data of any interest to me. I have mounted it in an ADS
Pyro IEEE 1394 box. I am having difficulty getting access to it using
a Dell Optiplex GX200 that is running under Win98 SE. Dell tells me
that the largest drive they shipped with this machine is 27.3 GB. With
the drive jumpered as 'master' I can see it with Partition Magic 8.0.
The full 39,252.6 MB is listed as 'bad.' When I attempt to format it
using PM it reports: Error #4, "Bad argument/parameter" Bad MBR,
Primary volume, 39,252.6 MB on Disk 5.
When I have the 1394 box on, I can see the disk in Device Manager as
IC35L040AVER07-7. Device Manager Properties tells me that the device
is working properly! The driver is the "standard disk driver" 4-23-99.
The Options Settings checked are Disconnect, Sync Data Transfer, and
Int 13 device. Perhaps removable should be checked? (I notice that for
a 20 GB Quantuum FireballP AS 20.5 (which is working and is
accessible) the settings are the same.
I cannot find the disk in "My Computer." The two partitions on the 20
GB 1394 drive show up as K and L. I cannot find an M. I cannot access
it in at a DOS prompt under Win98.
I understand that I can purchase a controller card that has a BIOS
which will recognize the drive. If I do this, and I disconnect all my
other HDD's and boot to DOS from a Win98 floppy, should it be possible
to do a FDISK/MBR from the DOS prompt?
I do have access to a machine running WinXP that is equipped with a
1394 interface. The BIOS in this machine will recognize a 40 GB IDE
hard disk drive. Can I use the XP CD and repair the MBR, or do I get
in trouble because I want FAT32 and XP is NTFS? Or can I format and
partition the drive into 4 logical drives, none larger than 27.3 GB,
using the WinXP machine and then install it on the Win98 SE machine,
should the system see the partitions I have created?
Thanks,
John
contains no data of any interest to me. I have mounted it in an ADS
Pyro IEEE 1394 box. I am having difficulty getting access to it using
a Dell Optiplex GX200 that is running under Win98 SE. Dell tells me
that the largest drive they shipped with this machine is 27.3 GB. With
the drive jumpered as 'master' I can see it with Partition Magic 8.0.
The full 39,252.6 MB is listed as 'bad.' When I attempt to format it
using PM it reports: Error #4, "Bad argument/parameter" Bad MBR,
Primary volume, 39,252.6 MB on Disk 5.
When I have the 1394 box on, I can see the disk in Device Manager as
IC35L040AVER07-7. Device Manager Properties tells me that the device
is working properly! The driver is the "standard disk driver" 4-23-99.
The Options Settings checked are Disconnect, Sync Data Transfer, and
Int 13 device. Perhaps removable should be checked? (I notice that for
a 20 GB Quantuum FireballP AS 20.5 (which is working and is
accessible) the settings are the same.
I cannot find the disk in "My Computer." The two partitions on the 20
GB 1394 drive show up as K and L. I cannot find an M. I cannot access
it in at a DOS prompt under Win98.
I understand that I can purchase a controller card that has a BIOS
which will recognize the drive. If I do this, and I disconnect all my
other HDD's and boot to DOS from a Win98 floppy, should it be possible
to do a FDISK/MBR from the DOS prompt?
I do have access to a machine running WinXP that is equipped with a
1394 interface. The BIOS in this machine will recognize a 40 GB IDE
hard disk drive. Can I use the XP CD and repair the MBR, or do I get
in trouble because I want FAT32 and XP is NTFS? Or can I format and
partition the drive into 4 logical drives, none larger than 27.3 GB,
using the WinXP machine and then install it on the Win98 SE machine,
should the system see the partitions I have created?
Thanks,
John