Yeah, these disks got a lot of vibration too, since they were screwed into drive cages with no shock absorption. Pity, this was one of the only ones of those disks that actually still worked without clicking! 😀

The drive in question isn't one that was part of the Deathstar debacle, but it is a drive that was used in a 12 disk storage array for a great many years, so it has a lot of hours on it. I've never seen quite this kind of behaviour by a drive before. It's a strange half-failure state. Swapping to a …

Yeah, installed the recommended via 4in1 for the KT400. I did just try HDAT2 on the disk, and it says it has a SMART alert, which might explain it. Lets try another disk! 😀

Cables seem fine, drive doesn't seem broken, though I might swap to something else to see if it just goes away. It sort of does seem to be just in Windows, though it's a bit harder to get an indication in DOS. Copying Win98SE files from CD seemed to be as fast as I'd expect. Running ATTO i get ~5MB …

Hi Guys, I'm trying to put together a "fast" win98 system, but I'm running in to some performance issues i don't remember from the olden days. The system is an AMD Athlon XP 2000 on a KT400 board. IDE drive is a 120GB Deskstar with an 80-conductor cable. the KT400 has a ATA133. I'm using Hyperion 4. …

No, I checked that a few times. I set it active when I made the partition in DOS, and then again when I re-created and formatted the partition with Linux for the later install attempt.

Indeed, I sort of still suspected that, but I'm not sure why it didn't fix it. I certainly never had fdisk /mbr not work in ye olden days, and I basically wasted my teens flipping between BSD, Linux and Windows, so lots of opportunities! Is it perchance because the drive is >4GB? (it's a 130GB …

Hey guys, not a problem per se, but more looking for an explanation of an issue i was having that seems to have resolved itself. I got an EP-MVP3G2 earlier today, and fitted it with an AMD K6-3 that I rescued from an old Cobalt RAQ4i. After eventually finding RAM it liked, I tried to install Win98. …