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Hello,
I'm trying to install a Samsung 2.1Gb IDE drive in a 486/66 computer.
Is thare a hard drive limit that this machine can see? It is a Zeos Rattler
Pantera, Pheonix BIOS v4.03, LBA is Enabled.
When I try to run scandisk on this machine, it always gives the following
message:
"ScandDisk cannot read from the last cluster on drive C. This cluster is
either damaged, or your system is not configured properly. Drive C may
need to have Logical Block Adressing (LBA) enabled to work properrly,
or its disk partition may be incorrectly marked as a non-LBA partition.
Data loss can occour if you LBA setting or disk partition type for this
drive is misconfigured......."
I eventually went ahead and ran scandisk and it started finding all bad (I
don't rember if it was sectors or clusters) after about 24% of disk was
scanned.
I installed this disk as a slave in my 6X86 P166+ and ran FDISK
creating only one large dos partition. I formatted it and it scanned OK
(full surface scan) using ScanDisk. When I placed it back in the 486
machine, ScanDisk again gave the above message. I'm using Win98 on
both macines.
Is thare a hard drive size limit that this machine can see even with LBA
enabled?
Will I have to partition it?
If so what size would be best?
Thanks,
"Duck" McDonald
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