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My System:
Tyan S2080 Tomcat 1815T
Intel PIII 1Gz
Antec 350w
Plextor CD/RW
Western Digital 40.GB 7200 ata100 HD
Western Digital 20.GB 7200 ata100 HD
ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 128 PRO AGP 32MEG
SOUND BLASTER LIVE! VALUE
Win98se
I installed the above new mobo, cpu and psu. After initial setup, the BIOS
recognized all my drives and the cpu. I got no error beeps.
When trying to start up, I got a black screen with the text: can not read
drive C.
Drive C, as seen by my bios, is my master drive WD20gig.
Not knowing what else to do, I proceded to do a format and clean instal of
win98 using the procedure I have successfully done before from the Microsoft
Knowlege Base.
After running fdisk and deleting and creating an active primary dos
partition. I inserted my Win98CD as per instructions. The windows scandisk
gave me the following message:
ScanDisk cannot read from the last cluster on drive C. This clsuster is
eather damaged, or your system is not condigured properly. Crive C may need
to have Logical Block Addressing (LBA) enabled to work pproperly. or its
disk partition ay be incorrectly marked as a non-LBA partition. Data loss
can occur if your LBA setting or disk partition type for this drive is
misconfigured.
Check your computer's BIOS setup utility, or contact your computer
manufacturer, or have your computer checked by a qualified computer hardware
technician.
If you ar sure your drive is configured correctly, click Continue to have
ScanDisk check drive C for errors.
I checked the BIOS to make sure LBA was enabled.The BIOS choices are "auto"
and "disable". "Auto" says it means enabled, and this is what was already
set.
I figured that my harddrive was bad, so I purchased a new Maxtor 80gig
ATA133.
I switched out my WD for the Maxtor, and my BIOS recognized it. I used the
Maxtor software to creat 2 partitions. 1-20gig 2-60gig. Per the Maxtor
instructions, I procceded to install win98. I got the same ScanDisk message
as above.
I decided to start over using fdisk on the Maxtor.
I started to delete partitions and reformat using fdisk insead of the Maxtor
program and fdisk saw a total size of 12624mg rather than the actural size
of 80000mg.
This is where I'm at at the moment. What shall I do next?
My System:
Tyan S2080 Tomcat 1815T
Intel PIII 1Gz
Antec 350w
Plextor CD/RW
Western Digital 40.GB 7200 ata100 HD
Western Digital 20.GB 7200 ata100 HD
ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 128 PRO AGP 32MEG
SOUND BLASTER LIVE! VALUE
Win98se
I installed the above new mobo, cpu and psu. After initial setup, the BIOS
recognized all my drives and the cpu. I got no error beeps.
When trying to start up, I got a black screen with the text: can not read
drive C.
Drive C, as seen by my bios, is my master drive WD20gig.
Not knowing what else to do, I proceded to do a format and clean instal of
win98 using the procedure I have successfully done before from the Microsoft
Knowlege Base.
After running fdisk and deleting and creating an active primary dos
partition. I inserted my Win98CD as per instructions. The windows scandisk
gave me the following message:
ScanDisk cannot read from the last cluster on drive C. This clsuster is
eather damaged, or your system is not condigured properly. Crive C may need
to have Logical Block Addressing (LBA) enabled to work pproperly. or its
disk partition ay be incorrectly marked as a non-LBA partition. Data loss
can occur if your LBA setting or disk partition type for this drive is
misconfigured.
Check your computer's BIOS setup utility, or contact your computer
manufacturer, or have your computer checked by a qualified computer hardware
technician.
If you ar sure your drive is configured correctly, click Continue to have
ScanDisk check drive C for errors.
I checked the BIOS to make sure LBA was enabled.The BIOS choices are "auto"
and "disable". "Auto" says it means enabled, and this is what was already
set.
I figured that my harddrive was bad, so I purchased a new Maxtor 80gig
ATA133.
I switched out my WD for the Maxtor, and my BIOS recognized it. I used the
Maxtor software to creat 2 partitions. 1-20gig 2-60gig. Per the Maxtor
instructions, I procceded to install win98. I got the same ScanDisk message
as above.
I decided to start over using fdisk on the Maxtor.
I started to delete partitions and reformat using fdisk insead of the Maxtor
program and fdisk saw a total size of 12624mg rather than the actural size
of 80000mg.
This is where I'm at at the moment. What shall I do next?