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[F:2059z D:15/05/04 #:1219 N:George {, Invercargill} Header v2.01]
Thanks for the reply Jeff.
I thought there may be a way around the problem, and didn't think it would be
easy!
>Possibly because like XP, W98SE, does not like to install itself on a HDD
>which it recognizes as one with a (Ruined, but still similar) OS already
>on it. You have to fool it into thinking it has an earlier one or none at
>all depending on whether it is an upgrade or a "full" CD.
What I'm using is the recovery CD that came with this computer. But I hadn't
thought that they might be using an upgrade version of Win98SE! No wonder they
used Win95 to upgrade from during the re-install, but why the FAT16 "A"
version, and not the FAT32 "B", or the later "C" version???
The recovery CD doesn't give many choices on start-up.
Option 1 is to partitiion and format the C: drive only.
Option 2 is to partition and format both the C: and D: drives. Which ever
choice, the C: drive is always a 2 GB Fat16 partition!
If the partitioning and formatting of both drives option is chosen, one ends
up with a 2 GB Fat16 drive C: with Win 98 SE on it, and the remainder of the
hard drive is drive D: Fat 32!!!
>Afterthought. At that size, it is an old one! Must admnit that I have
>never heard of ENZIP mind. PKZIP (My first excellent Dos tool) Winzip,
>LHA, WinRar, WinAce and others yes, but not ENZIP. Good luck.
Yes it's an old drive, my original 4.8 GB drive failed to re-boot, so I'm
stuck with this older 2.01 GB drive, which the recovery CD/Win95A insists on
partitioning as 2 drives, a 2 GB drive C:, and a 20 MB drive D:!! Obviously
the size of the C: partition is a DOS/Win95A limitation.
I've got a couple of faulty 30 GB drives that work OK till they're well warmed
up, and the recovery CD partitions them at 2 GB Fat16 for drive C:, and the
rest of the 28 GB is partitioned as drive D: Fat32!!! No choice! Weird! Win98
SE does convert the C: partition to Fat32 OK while the drives are still going.
An interesting aside, the original 4.8 GB hard drive that went faulty and
wouldn't reboot, now makes 'siren' noises, in any computer I test it in! The
noises actually come from within the drive!! One would expect to see an
ambulance coming!!!!
Enzip is a freeware Windows program, and works well on all computers here. It
spans to floppies etc. and does most of all I want.
73 - George, ZL4CW@ZL4GQ.#95.NZL.OC
gbarker@paradise.net.nz
Invercargill New Zealand
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