I have found that Windows 98 had no problem seeing my 300gb hard drive but it does have a limit to how far it can address on such a large hard drive. I have the hard drive partitioned into 3 smaller drives, it can see the first 2 partitions without any problem but the 3rd partition which I was using for archives was working fine until it was somewhere near 30 percent filled then Windows started having problems with it and started giving me read and write errors. It also currupted some data on the first partition, so I think it's pointer for the physical sector address had "looped" around, simular to how an odometer rolls over back to 0. I had used the DOS version of Norton Partition Magic to create the partitions and it had no problem formatting them but after I got errors from Windows when it tried to access the space, now Partition Magic says the partition is Unformatted. Even though I know this is not the case because I was able to use Norton Ghost 2003 in DOS mode to archive the partition to a .GHO image file on one of the other partitions.
Speaking of Ghost, does anyone know how it can read and write partitions in about a third of the time it would take Windows/DOS to copy the same amount of data and files? Even using it for "Partition to Partition" copy is 2 to 3 times faster than Partition Magic's copying a partition.
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Originally Posted by ferny58
I have had the same problem with hard drives larger than 137 GB.
This size is the threshold above which LBA addressing is required.
LBA addressing is only supported by the Microsoft Operating Systems
Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Usually the hard drive vendor (Seagate, Maxtor or WD) will supply
a bootable CD that will
allow you to format these large hard disks (greater
than 137 GB). There are some standalone bootable CDs like
UltimateBootCD, Hiram's CD that contain one or more of the hard drive
installation tools from the vendors listed above. You can usually dowload
an image (ISO) file from which to burn these bootable CDs.
In order to boot from the CD your motherboard BIOS must support it.
You need to go into the BIOS setup and select the CD as the first
bootable device. Look up the items I mentioned above on google to
get detailed info on same. Also your motherboard BIOS must support
LBA addressing for hard drives larger than 137 GB.
Hope this helps.
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