Scandisk Not Able To Scan Larger Drives
 

Thanks I would like something to scan a drive over 200 GB compatible with
windows 98

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Mystery Girl

Scandisk Not Able To Scan Larger Drives
 

Either create partitions smaller than 127GB on the drive so that scandisk and defrag
can work with them, or buy a third-party tool. I don't know what is available to
replace scandisk that still has Win98 support. Have you tried Google?
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
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"Mystery Girl" wrote in message
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Thanks I would like something to scan a drive over 200 GB compatible with windows
98

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Mystery Girl

Scandisk Not Able To Scan Larger Drives
 

Yes I tried searching the Microsoft Windows 98 site
and found nothing

Then I tried Google and nothing came up there either
thanks for the advice though

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Mystery Girl

"glee" wrote in message
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Either create partitions smaller than 127GB on the drive so that scandisk
and defrag can work with them, or buy a third-party tool. I don't know
what is available to replace scandisk that still has Win98 support. Have
you tried Google?
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Mystery Girl" wrote in message
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Thanks I would like something to scan a drive over 200 GB compatible with
windows 98

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Mystery Girl

Scandisk Not Able To Scan Larger Drives
 

MS won't have anything suitable.

The availability of suitable tools is one of the issues to be considered
before going with over-size FAT32 partitions, and combined with questions of
access speed is actually a good reason for avoiding it.

I would start with wherever you got your support for 48-bit LBA from - they
would be aware of this issue and may have recommendations. Secondly, try
including Linux in your searching, as Linux systems that use FAT32 do not
have the size limitations, and may have already developed a solution. You
might have to run it from a Linux boot CD, but it's possible. Your
implementation may involve making the large drive look like a SCSI drive to
the operating system (a common way of getting around the size problem) in
which case a version of Scandisk for SCSI could be available.

Check the definitive source for everything to do with large FAT32
partitions -
http://www.48bitlba.com/
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Mystery Girl" wrote in message
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Yes I tried searching the Microsoft Windows 98 site
and found nothing

Then I tried Google and nothing came up there either
thanks for the advice though

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Mystery Girl