Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 21:00:35 +0000 From: "Fubar Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: my brain hurts [LIB]
>Actually (major speculation mode) it occurs to me that >as w98 only uses the bios at initialisation, that is >might be quite happy once things have booted. >Anyone got a big disk to experiment? That would be me ;-) OK, here's what I did:- - Libretto 110, 4.3GB HDD, Win'98, no other software involved - external HDD caddy with PCcard connection - 30GB Fujitsu HDD - 3 partitions, all FDISK'd in L110 as follows:- - 1 - 7.77GB FAT32 - FDISK'd from DOS with Win'98 boot diskette - 2 - 78.2MB FAT32 - FDISK'd with Win'2K - 3 - remainder (20+ GB) FAT32 - FDISK'd with Win'2K 7.77GB = 8,348,737,536 bytes 78.2MB = 82,073,600 bytes The Libretto running Win'98 / Windows Explorer showed all three partitions on the external HDD(!!!) straight away when the PCcard was inserted. I copied 3GB of data (39,792 files, 2,888 folders) from the (internal) 4.3GB HDD to the first (sub-8GB) partition on the (external) 30GB HDD - no problems. Then, on the external 30GB drive - still using Win'98 / Windows Explorer - I copied the same 3GB of data from the first (sub-8GB) partition to the third (last 20GB) partition - but this time a handful of files were rejected as uncopyable - bad links / bad files names. A short while after this was completed, while playing around and looking for signs of anything being amiss, all three partitions of the external HDD disappeared from Windows Explorer and could not be persuaded to return no matter what. Trust me, I tried everything. Finally I removed the 4.3GB HDD from the Libretto, replaced it with the 30GB HDD and ran Win'2K - a check of the copied files threw up a further handful of errors on the third (last 20GB) partition. No problems were found with the external caddy setup when the 4.3GB HDD was subsequently installed and plugged into the PCcard slot of the Win'2K powered Libretto. Howzat? _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
