Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:41:23 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a >must< for W98 * W2K installations
Matt Hanson wrote: > > Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:05:21 -0800 (PST) > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a >must< for W98 * W2K installations > > Hey Philip... Have read through yours and John's replies and have archived > them for reference. Will be very busy for the next few days, so I'm not > sure if I'll get some time to do much experimentation more than getting > access to W2K again. > > But quick... with the 256 LFN thing... I still think there may be an issue > there. I know I'm >supposed< to have 256 character supportin W98, but even In the MSDN databse, http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/win9x/lfn_4je5.asp it says that the leading path may be only 246 chars long. I suppose you simply can't create longer paths in Windows? > before this recent partition change and installing W2K to dual-boot with > W98, I was having problems with W98 and LFNs. I'd rip a CD with EAC (Exact > Audio Copy) with tag info from the free CDDA, and, esp. classical music, > end up with file names above the ~110 - 120 (?) character limit that up to > recently Nero couldn't burn to CD-R. Though the Nero issue is an entirely > different file system issue. Aside from Nero though, W98 would balk at > moving the ripped files from the rip folder to the classical sub-folder in > my main MP3 folder. I'd have to shorten the file names down to, I think it > was below 110-112 (can't remember excatly, but it was around there) before > W98 would even let me move them. So something was going on there that > challanged the 256 character thing for some reason, and may have > coontributed to my recent problems.... no se. > > As for partitioning and formatting, I did that with Partition Magic in DOS > with the drive set up in my desktop. So I didn't think there shouldn't > have been any issues there, as the desktop hasn't had any Int13ext problems > to my knowledge in the past. Tho' I did first install W98 onto the 1st > primary partition C: from the \Win98 files\folder on a E: partition, and > then W2K on the 1st of 4 logical drives from \i386 on E:. The partitions > look like this: > > C: 1st primary FAT32 3GB <W98 had plenty of virtual memory area. > Extended 37GB > D: 1st logical FAT32 2.5GB <W2K > E: 2nd logical FAT32 1GB <Data > F: 3rd logical FAT32 1.5GB <W2K to slim down, never used yet > ~64MB < Empty at 8GB on cyls 1016-1027 that have always worked > G: 4th logical FAT32 30GB <MP3 and general data > > There was the thing with W98 seeing the last drive as G:, and W2K's Disk > Management changing the drive letter to E: so MP3 M3U playlists could find > the MP3s previously set to E:. But when scandisk found "problems" that > didn't exist with chkdsk on W2K, and the file names scandisk reported were > in fact MP3 file names that live on that last 30GB partition. Win2K may have reset its drive letters in the mean time, causing it to see no problems on the faulty partitions. DOS (and thus DOS-based Windows versions - Win9x & Win-ME) have several bugs when it comes to (big, especially > 8GB) extended partitions. Normal users seldomly hit them, but they do exist. E.g., mixing up drive letters if the last logical partition is not FAT is just one of them. You made the partitions with PM, but you did not say how you formatted them. I suspect you used DOS or Win98 (as you installed Win2K from E:\i386), that may be a candidate for cause of trouble. Try to check if the extended partition is type (hex) 0f or 05. Other info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184006 (esp. the 4th item on DOS scandisk, noting that your cluster size on G: is probably 16 KB). Ciao too, Philip
