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First post, by moulder

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Hi,
I have problem with my second partirion. I'm getting error in dos Reading that partition. Dirs are listing but when I want to click any folder it gives me error Reading and then whole partition is not showing at all. Inhave win98 and dos mode configured according to Phils tutorial. Bios is detecting hdd correctly, in win everything is ok.

My spec:
Ssd hdd 128 Gb connected trough adapter: c partition has 2gb, d partition rest of hdd space both fat32.

PIII 700
Asus p2b with newest beta bios
256mb ram
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Reply 1 of 11, by crazii

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Did you use LBA mode for FAT32?
Usually I use a utility called SPFDISK instead of FDISK. if you use FDISK, there should be a question about large capacity support, you need press Y.

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Reply 2 of 11, by moulder

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crazii wrote on 2022-12-02, 14:57:

Did you use LBA mode for FAT32?
Usually I use a utility called SPFDISK instead of FDISK. if you use FDISK, there should be a question about large capacity support, you need press Y.

Yes I have enabled LBA. First partition C: I've created in fdisk. Second problematic partition was created in Gparted.

Reply 3 of 11, by crazii

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Never used Gparted. have you ever run win98's scandisk? is it OK? it may not help but you can do the partition using FDISK again...

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Reply 5 of 11, by Jo22

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Beware, GParted dropped FAT/FAT32 support at some point.
Since v0.9.0, it can't resize them anymore, I vaguely remember.

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Reply 6 of 11, by crazii

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I usually use PartitionMagic to resize partitions. It will also check disk errors (incorrect size etc.) on its startup.

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Reply 7 of 11, by moulder

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crazii wrote on 2022-12-02, 17:04:

Never used Gparted. have you ever run win98's scandisk? is it OK? it may not help but you can do the partition using FDISK again...

Windows scandisk is not able to scan that partition saying there is not enough memory:-(

Reply 8 of 11, by moulder

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crazii wrote on 2022-12-02, 17:19:

I usually use PartitionMagic to resize partitions. It will also check disk errors (incorrect size etc.) on its startup.

I was not able to create that bigger partition with Partition Magic. At first I had one big partition created by fdisk. Then I was trying to resize it to 2gb and create second for the space remaining (about 118gb) and Partition Magic was giving me error. So thats why I used Gparted to finish whole process.

Reply 10 of 11, by theelf

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moulder wrote on 2022-12-03, 08:54:
theelf wrote on 2022-12-02, 17:10:

Check partition using Ranish Partition Manager in DOS, maybe you have some overlap

Ranish Manager has helped me and fixed partition. Thanks for help.

Im happy enjoy

I found for DOS ranish part very reliable in all my setups, never have any problem

Reply 11 of 11, by crazii

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Glad you solved it. Never used ranish partition manager, probably will give it a try next time. 😁

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