Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:22:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a >must< for W98 * W2K installations
Philip, Thought I'd 1st try a quick and easy route of addressing the problems I've been having by trying converting partition types as you had pointed out. I got Ranish Partition Manager to convert all of the 0b FAT32 partitions to 0c FAT32 LBA partitions on my 110 HDD, and made the changes. But these file/folder problems for W98 persist. I uninstalled EZD, popped the HDD out of the 110, put it in the desktop, booted from the FDD, ran Ranish part.exe and did the partition type conversion. That process was as easy as highlighting a partition, pressing the 'Ins' key, and moving the highlight bar down one notch from 0b to 0c for each partition, and saving the changes. After converting the partition types & leaving EZD uninstalled, I put the HDD back in the 110, booted into W98 on C: and ran Scandisk on the G: partition above 8GB. It only took a few seconds to come up with a folder error there: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "G:\My Downloads\File Management\Virtual CD Drive\DAEMON Tools 3.47 This folder is invalid. Although it is marked as a folder, its contents do not appear to be valid. Scandisk repairs this error by converting this folder into a file. NOTE: If you choose to repair this error, make sure you recover lost file fragments later. If files in this folder were named using an international character set other than the one you are using now, click Cancel, and then refer to the Readme.txt file." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- That was the folder for the freeware virtual CD program Jim Drouillard pointed me to recently (thanks Jim!). If you have W98 as C: on your system, W2K on a logical drive <8GB, and some partition >8GB you could use, I wonder if you could do a test and try setting up a path and file like mine above. And then try running Scandisk on that >8GB partition from your W98 on C: to see if it finds the same problem. I'd guess that for test purposes it wouldn't matter if you didn't have the file daemon347.exe in the '\DAEMON Tools 3.47' as I do, but it wouldn't hurt to duplicate as much as what I've got here as possible. daemon347.exe is here: http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/download.php?mode=ViewCategory&catid=5 or directly to the file download: http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/download.php?mode=Download&id=34 Thanks for your feedback on all this Philip. Matt __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
