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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
98 Guy wrote:
"Formatting 41,86.65M" That's when I left the computer (running at my office). I wasn't going to hang around for an hour while it formatted the drive. I'll check back later today and see how it finished the job. Ok, here's the result: Formatting 41,86.65M Format complete. Writing out file allocation table Compete. Calculating free space (this may take several minutes)... Complete System tranferred Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)? 238,414.41 MB total disk space 360,448 bytes used by system 238,414.07 mb available on disk 32,768 bytes in each allocation unit. 7,629,249 allocation unites available on disk. Ok, looks good. Let's try chkdsk c: 244,136,352 kilobytes total disk space 244,135,968 kilobytes free 32,768 bytes in each allocation unit 7,629,261 total allocation units on disk 7,629,249 available allocation units on disk Ok, still looks good. Let's try Scandisk c: Scandisk ran just fine, performed all checks except surface scan. Running scandisk without himem.sys being loaded results in this message: "Scandisk is unable to check a drive because there is no extended memory driver loaded on your computer. To check this drive, make sure that you have a HIMEM.SYS file on the disk from which you are starting your computer (...)" Ok, so there you go. You can use standard tools like fdisk and format to prepare drives up to 250 gb in size and set them up for windows-98se installation. From this point on, I don't want to hear any lusers out there in some future post say something like "uh, I don't think that fdisk works on drives larger than 50 gb, or maybe it's 64" or "I seem to recall that you can't use win-98 format to format a drive larger than 80 gb" or some other such nonsense. And to Ssome (the OP who I think started this thread in microsoft.public.win98.performance) - I hope this helps... |
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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
98 Guy wrote:
98 Guy wrote: "Formatting 41,86.65M" That's when I left the computer (running at my office). I wasn't going to hang around for an hour while it formatted the drive. I'll check back later today and see how it finished the job. Ok, here's the result: Formatting 41,86.65M Format complete. Writing out file allocation table Compete. Calculating free space (this may take several minutes)... Complete System tranferred Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)? 238,414.41 MB total disk space 360,448 bytes used by system 238,414.07 mb available on disk 32,768 bytes in each allocation unit. 7,629,249 allocation unites available on disk. Ok, looks good. Let's try chkdsk c: 244,136,352 kilobytes total disk space 244,135,968 kilobytes free 32,768 bytes in each allocation unit 7,629,261 total allocation units on disk 7,629,249 available allocation units on disk Ok, still looks good. Let's try Scandisk c: Scandisk ran just fine, performed all checks except surface scan. Running scandisk without himem.sys being loaded results in this message: "Scandisk is unable to check a drive because there is no extended memory driver loaded on your computer. To check this drive, make sure that you have a HIMEM.SYS file on the disk from which you are starting your computer (...)" Ok, so there you go. You can use standard tools like fdisk and format to prepare drives up to 250 gb in size and set them up for windows-98se installation. From this point on, I don't want to hear any lusers out there in some future post say something like "uh, I don't think that fdisk works on drives larger than 50 gb, or maybe it's 64" or "I seem to recall that you can't use win-98 format to format a drive larger than 80 gb" or some other such nonsense. And to Ssome (the OP who I think started this thread in microsoft.public.win98.performance) - I hope this helps... Good for you. I have been using up to 160G drives for several years now with no problems with scandisk. I also have a raid 5 system set up on W98se with 5 x 160G WD drives - 600+G combined space partitioned into 5 sections. So far, again over 2 years, no problems other than one drive failing. At that time I rebooted on a broken array and ran normally until the replacement drive was ready and let the system rebuild the broken array over the weekend. That happened about 2 months after setting up the system and it has been flawless since. I run 2 old W95's, they do what they did well then to this day, 2 W98se with one as the server & 2 W2k's as workstations doing the grunt work. Soon a couple of the other L-OS machines will be added to perform additional grunt type jobs. No significant problems in over 2 years other than the one physical drive failure. Just lucky I guess. BTW you did a great job explaining to those new to disk allocations & if you know of a place describing why there should be some smaller partitions in addition to some larger ones for the purpose of improved disk space usage this would be a good place to direct them to it. I have not had the need to search for an article but if you do not have one available I will try to find one and add the link here. Good proof of concept. James |
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