Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:56:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a >must< for W98 * W2K installations
--- Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.....
I didn't allow scandisk to make that change on the Daemon Tools subdir when
I ran it the other day. It popped up that message, and gave me the option
to repair or quit. Having seen the damage fixing the error did once last
week, I've been quitting, and either running chkdsk from W2K to check for
problems on that drive, or installing EZD and running scandisk again from
W98. And with EZB, scandisk finds no problems.
But I did allow scandisk to repair a couple of these errors last week
before switching C: from 0b to 0c. Do you think that when I allowed
scandisk to convert those folders and files to recovered data files, it
also wrote changes to FATs that are confusing it now that the C: partition
has been changed from 0b to 0c? This is all pretty confusing to >me<. ;-P
Data partitions aren't really affected by the change from type 0b to 0c,
right? The change only affects booting from a partition, in that the
partition is seen as "Windows FAT32 LBA" as type 0c, and just "Windows
FAT32" as type 0b.
So I guess I could just leave things as they are with EZD installed. But I
am still having problems with Winamp not being able to find MP3s on G: that
are listed in its ACSII M3U playlist files. And that's running Winamp from
W2K. Tho' I really have no idea if the two file/folder issues are related.
How about I delete the C: partition, create a new one as 0c, restore a
'vanilla' image of W98. And delete the G: partition, create a new one, 0b
or 0c probably doesn't matter for a data partition, and restore the data
from backup on the desktop. Or do you think W2K may still be playing a
part here? If I created a new C: and restored a W98 image, I'd have to run
W2K setup again so it can boot from C:.
Matt
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