First post, by Kahenraz
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I bought a brand new Crucial MX500 500GB SSD from Best Buy, know to be genuine, S.M.A.R.T. tests OK, verified working. There are no problems with the drive itself, that I can tell.
I have formatted it as such using linux fdisk as MBR (not GPT), first partition aligned to 2048 boundary, as it's a 512/4k drive. The layout is as follows:
1GB XFS (primary, GRUB/not used)
4GB FAT32 (primary/hidden, FreeDOS)
80GB FAT32 (primary, boot, WinME)
415 FAT32 (extended)
The first partition is XFS and is meant for a GRUB bootloader. It's reserved right now and is not being used. The second partition is for FreeDOS and is a hidden partition, also not being used. The third partition is the active, primary, bootable partition with Windows ME installed to it. The last partition is whatever is left available on the disk, and is formatted as a logical partition in an extended block.
The system is stable after installation and I have no issues with anything I've tested so far on the primary Windows ME partition. But I'm experiencing serious problems on the extended partition. Files appear to be missing and some folders are inaccessible. It appears as though it is corrupted, but when I plug it into a modern PC, everything is fine. The files are there and not corrupt and there are no issues with scandisk. The issue only appears when I try to access the filesystem natively when booting from Windows ME.
Does anyone know why this might be? I would like to try and perform as much testing as possible to validate the problem before doing anything destructive, where possible.