Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 17:02:11 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Windows 2000, Lib 110, >8GB drive, and a fresh install?
At 09:45 AM 31/07/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:40:49 -0400 >From: "Christopher Kalos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Re[2]: [LIB] Windows 2000, Lib 110, >8GB drive, and a fresh >install? > >I made sure to use the Libby's drive as the primary master, and the only >other drive connected to the desktop at that time was a CD-ROM for reading >the data. Does that computer recognise the disk beyond 1024 cylinders? I've had complications where I do some partitioning in the libby and some in a desktop, in my case I ended up with what looked like 2 'versions' of the partition table where some partitions were accessible in both cases but both slowly got corrupted. I ended up putting EZ-Bios onto the drive and making sure whenever I did anything to do with the partitions I'd boot off that drive (if I was just copying files to it I found I could get away with booting to the desktop's own Win2k install and writing to the disk as long as I didn't touch the partition table). >Finally, I just bit the bullet and ran the install from the hard drive. 4 >hours later, I had mismapped drives, so it's back to square one, but at >least there's a plan. What do you mean by mismapped drives? If you're referring to boot.ini, just boot using a boot floppy (format a floppy disk in Win2k (which automatically does the NT equivalent of sys'ing it) then copy the boot files across) with a correct boot.ini (bypassing the equivalent on the hard drive). >However, and this is fairly odd, when I boot up using the only available >boot floppy (The Toshiba Companion Diskette!) I can see all the partitions >of the 12 GB drive perfectly. Careful ... I've had a few cases (I can't remember how but it seemed pretty inconsistent) where it looked like I could see everything from my libby WITHOUT any overlay but then I found that if I tried to manipulate the partitions I ended up getting weird results (such as having partitions reporting larger than the drive itself!). > I'm in Win98's DOS at this point, but fdisk >seems to see them all, each partition is actually accesible, and I can read >and write from anywhere on the disk. Hmm ... perhaps the Toshiba companion diskette has something we don't know about? What happens when you boot off a plain vanilla Win98 boot disk? >Seeing as OnTrack was wiped from the drive and I'm bypassing it anyway with >this method, what exactly does this mean for BIOS version 8.00? *shrug* I've not used OnTrack ... I know I'll provoke another flamewar by saying this but I still recommend that even though Win2k can see past 1024 cylinders unaided that you use something like EZ-Bios (look in the archives for a link) ... you never know when you may need to get into your partitions with a boot disk. I also recommend NOT using NTFS unless you REALLY need it for security for the same reason ... especially given that getting into the recovery console on the libby is likely to be a complete pain in the rear (and then especially if the MBR is dead). Regarding your initial 'INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE' ERROR, I got that when I tried installing WinNT onto my L50, I didn't try any further because I managed to get Win95 stable anyway ... if you do manage to get this thing working I might try putting 2k on my L100 as well ... hehe - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
