Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:20:58 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a >must< for W98 * W2K installations
Matt Hanson wrote: > > Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:22:31 -0800 (PST) > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a >must< for W98 * W2K installations Hi Matt: Here I got Win2K on a primary C: (and another stripped one on a logical G:) and Win98 on logical E: (plus OS/2 maintenance on logical D:\ FAT16)), so I can't reproduce your setup. Yet I wonder if the exact file & path name you mentioned in your post / request to me matter much. I got a 10 GB and a 15 GB logical FAT32 partition on my Libby (both > 8 GB) and I am very very sure that there are file- and pathnames inside which are much longer than what you mentioned. I think what happened on you Lib is that initially scandisk got confused because of the 0b setting (it doesn't use LBA disk translation then) and screwed up the file system, including your Daemon Tools subdir. Now that you converted it to 0c, scandisk can at last do a proper job and obviously finds the file system and in particular, that subdir has been screwed up..... What I found on my Lib using 0b FAT32 type is that Win98 more or less mixed up the drive letters for both FAT32 logical partitions and found wrong disk sizes. Therefore I think the damage you encountered could have been much worse... scandisk could also have wiped out entire logical partitions. I do have Ranish & Daemon Tools somewhere on disk but never installed them, thank you. BTW, hint: for Win2K virtual CD-ROM you can also use the free Microsoft tool "Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel v2.0.1.1" (VcdControlTools.exe/zip or so, search microsoft.com). Meant for XP but works on W2K too. Needs admin rights BTW. Philip > Philip, > > Thought I'd 1st try a quick and easy route of addressing the problems I've > been having by trying converting partition types as you had pointed out. > > I got Ranish Partition Manager to convert all of the 0b FAT32 partitions to > 0c FAT32 LBA partitions on my 110 HDD, and made the changes. But these > file/folder problems for W98 persist. > > I uninstalled EZD, popped the HDD out of the 110, put it in the desktop, > booted from the FDD, ran Ranish part.exe and did the partition type > conversion. That process was as easy as highlighting a partition, pressing > the 'Ins' key, and moving the highlight bar down one notch from 0b to 0c > for each partition, and saving the changes. > > After converting the partition types & leaving EZD uninstalled, I put the > HDD back in the 110, booted into W98 on C: and ran Scandisk on the G: > partition above 8GB. It only took a few seconds to come up with a folder > error there: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "G:\My Downloads\File Management\Virtual CD Drive\DAEMON Tools 3.47 > > This folder is invalid. Although it is marked as a folder, its contents do > not appear to be valid. Scandisk repairs this error by converting this > folder into a file. NOTE: If you choose to repair this error, make sure you > recover lost file fragments later. If files in this folder were named using > an international character set other than the one you are using now, click > Cancel, and then refer to the Readme.txt file." > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > That was the folder for the freeware virtual CD program Jim Drouillard > pointed me to recently (thanks Jim!). If you have W98 as C: on your > system, W2K on a logical drive <8GB, and some partition >8GB you could use, > I wonder if you could do a test and try setting up a path and file like > mine above. And then try running Scandisk on that >8GB partition from your > W98 on C: to see if it finds the same problem. > > I'd guess that for test purposes it wouldn't matter if you didn't have the > file daemon347.exe in the '\DAEMON Tools 3.47' as I do, but it wouldn't > hurt to duplicate as much as what I've got here as possible. daemon347.exe > is here: > > http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/download.php?mode=ViewCategory&catid=5 > > or directly to the file download: > > http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/download.php?mode=Download&id=34 > > Thanks for your feedback on all this Philip.
