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First post, by GabrielKnight123

Posted on 2018-02-27, 14:37

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I have an IDE hard drive that does not get past the "checking drive integrity" it stays at 0% when using fdisk, I have tried deleting all partitions and making a new single primary partition with fdisk but I still get the 0% at checking drive integrity. I used GParted Live and made a Fat32 partition but when I go to install Windows 98Se it says something about the disk drive as being bad, I continue and it gets to the surface scan but I quit it as I already checked the drive with Hdat2. I also removed a HPA area using Hdat2 I didnt like it being there. Is my drive damaged? Is that the reason for the 0% status?

Reply 1 of 9, by Srandista

Posted on 2018-02-27, 14:54

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Windows 98 won't work with partition bigger then 137GB.

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Reply 2 of 9, by GabrielKnight123

Posted on 2018-02-27, 15:05

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If I use GParted Live and made a partition of 100GB which do I need to use for alignment type "Cylinder" or "None" as I know "GiB" is for new HDD's

Reply 3 of 9, by derSammler

Posted on 2018-02-27, 15:23

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Srandista wrote:
Windows 98 won't work with partition bigger then 137GB.

Actually, it does not work with hard disks larger than 137 GB. You should still be able to install it, but it will destroy data when hitting the 137 GB boundary.

Reply 4 of 9, by Srandista

Posted on 2018-02-27, 18:02

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Yeah, I wasn't 100% sure, now I will remember, that it applies for whole drive.

But on the other way, if you would be able to install Win 98 on that drive, you should be able to utilize whole disk with LBA48 patch installed with unofficial SP3, doesn't it?

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Reply 5 of 9, by keropi

Posted on 2018-02-27, 18:39

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I am using the 48bit LBA patch with my 98SE installations - for best result drop the suitable ESDI_506.PDR file in your 98SE cabs directory and run setup , the external file will be used instead of the stock one. I am using for several years now a 320GB drive with this patch and never had any issues.
BEWARE though, if you do it wrong you will get corruption after you go past the 128GB.

https://msfn.org/board/topic/78592-enable48bi … -137gb-barrier/

NEW WINDOWS INSTALLATIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you are doing a clean install of Windows on a Computer where any of the d […]
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NEW WINDOWS INSTALLATIONS
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If you are doing a clean install of Windows on a Computer where any of the
drives has a partition extending above the 137 GB limit, you must install the
patched ESDI_506.PDR before Windows has a chance to use its unpatched driver.
Corruption may occur before you can complete the installation otherwise.
If the Windows partition itself is above the 137 Gb limit, it will DEFINTELY
CRASH!

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Reply 6 of 9, by Tiido

Posted on 2018-02-27, 19:14

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You also want to use FDISK, FORMAT, SCANDISK and DEFRAG from WinME as those work correctly with large drives while 98SE ones are going to cause trouble. IIRC DEFRAG will destroy your data while being much slower than ME's version too. MSFN has all the relevant info so spend some time there on the LBA48 related threads.

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