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?
thx...kev
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?
thx...kev
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