W2k lockups..98SE HD benchmarks way down

[rb56]

I just partitioned my drive to do a dual boot of 98SE & W2k. Used Partition magic and set the drives up as follows.

C: 98SE 3gb - 1st partition
D: Files 5gb
E: Music Files 5gb
F: Games 12gb
G: CD rom
H: Zip drive
I: HP CD Writer
J: W2k 3gb - 2nd partiton

I partitioned the drive first and kept C active, 3gb primary next for W2k then the other partitions. When I ran the install it said that it couldn't use the 3gb partition the way it was so It as if I want to set it to be able to. (can't remember exactly what it said) Said yes and the install when well.

After I got W2k installed first I tried to install the sp1. It quit about half way though and I had to reboot. Then tried to install the 4 in 1 drivers 4.27 ver. they seamed to install OK but on reboot the system locked and I had to reboot again. Got it running again but it was locking up after just a few minutes each time I tried to run. Then I installed the 4.25 ver if the driver to see if it would help. I'm still getting lockups after only running for a few minutes. Tried to run some Sandra scores and it would lock up after a couple of minutes. Went back to 98SE and tried Sandra to see if it had an effect on scores and my HD benchmarks have went from 24000 to 7500!

What did I do wrong?

 

[cirrus1]

Maybe you have set something wrong in bios. Try to check your settings (especially the settings for your HD's)

Try to boot up to failsafe in W2K, and see how much space you have got left (maybe you have run out of HD space when installing the SP1. Try to install SP1 again and install the newest via 4in1. Look at 4in1 4.28 finals

Keep in touch

 

[Bozo]

Try removing your Zip drive and then start Win2k.

Bozo

 

[rb56]

I installed the 4.28 drivers and the same thing happened. After I installed the drivers and tried to reboot the it hangs about half way through start up in W2k.I've got plenty of room on the partition, I checked it in SE and defraged both the partitons with the OS's on them. I've been running SE for three months on the system and it's been working great so I don't think there's a problem in the bios settings.

I can boot to SE fine and it runs without problems other than the Sandra HD score has gone into the basement.

One thing that I see and maybe it's not a big deal is that in SE the W2k partition is listed as G, in W2k it's listed as J?

I'm going to try to boot to W2k again and see if I can get the 4.28 to install correctly again. It seems strange that it won't boot aftere the install.

Bozo, why would I want to remove the Zip? All the components have been running in SE since I built the system. The only difference is the partitioning of the drive and the install of W2k. I don't have a problem doing it as long as I know what I am trying to accomplish.

 

[rb56]

Tried to reboot in W2k and it locked again half way through startup. Went to boot back to SE and now it is saying that I have a invalid system disk, I've got nothing in drive A. When I defragged the partitions I also checked for errors with Norton system doctor and had a lot of errors. Fixed them and I think that's what gave me that problem. I'm going to ghost back SE on the C partition to get SE working again and unless someone has a better idea reformat the W2k partition and try again.

Thanks for any ideas..

 

[rb56]

OK ghosted back to SE only and I'm going to repartition and try again. If anyone has any ideas to make this go smooth I would really appreciate it..

Come on guys help me out.
rb56

 

[earthman]

If you are doing resets every time it hangs you are causing all kinds of hard drive errors. You would need to run Disk Doctor or something similar each time. If you do it during a write you may corrupt the partition table and MBR and not have anything, so watch it. (voice of experience). You may have some conflicting driver for your hard disks loading is one suggestion I have, the other is that the hard drive modes are wrong. Daisy chaining non-UDMA devices on to a UDMA hard drive can cause both to run at the lower speed. UDMA devices should be together if possible.

 

[rb56]

Thanks for the imput Earthman I'm new to dual booting and all suggestions to make it work well are welcomed. I'm not sure amout the HD drivers, I haven't loaded anything special as for as I know.

Thanks again
rb56