Hello Jeff, ,,,,

THANKS for the REPLY!!!

I am fairly a newbie at these very large drives (2GB),,,I have not worked
with disk drives in many years. Especially the use of a single disk drive
that is 6GB on any operating system. And, on a system that is still an
original delivery of Windows 98 Second Edition with no Windows Updates or
Service Pak Updates. For this situation, the 6GB drive is an addition for
more storage for the Hard Disk Drive environment on the IDE/ATAPI interface
Secondary/Master (D.

The Fujitsu supplied ERASE (fjerase.exe) and DIAGNOSTIC (fjdt.exe) for this
model drive (MPB3064ATU) have been executed as required in a pure DOS
environment and both ran to completion without error. These have been
executed several times. And, the test code displayed at the end of the
DIAGNOSTC (B000B6) is defined by the support group at Fujistsu
(http://www.fcpa.com/support/hard-drives/contact.html) as:

"Drive is OK to use."

And, the BIOS is post 1994 and accepts a manual setting for 6GB.

I thought I read somewhere (after I had posted this) that this is a known
situation (W98SE SCANDISK for 2GB drives) and maybe a Service Pak upgrade
would fix the original delivery of W98 Second Edition where the following
routines will work on disk drives 2GB:

FDISK.exe and
FORMAT.exe
but,
"A SCANDISK will not work for disk drives 2GB"

And, I cannot remember if the described situation was related to FAT16,
FAT32, or both.(????)

If this is a possibility, I do not no where to go in Microsoft to get any
Service Pak upgrade for W98 Second Edition.

THANKS for your time, advise, and help!!!!

Jerry


"Jeff Richards" wrote:

Get some hard disk drive diagnostics from the www site of the hard disk
drive manufacturer and give the drive a thorough testing.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Jerry" wrote in message
...
Hello W98 File/Disk Management Newsgroup,,,,

And, THANKS for your advise, time, and help!!!!


Using the following environment:

o Motherboard is: SPACEWALKER SHUTTLE HOT-637
o Windows 98 Second Edition is installed (no upgrades, i.e no Service
Paks at
this time)
o Award Modular BIOS V4.51PG Award Plug & Play BIOS
Extension v1.0A
Copyright 1997
o A Fujitsu Hard Disk (MPB3064ATU) rated at 6.48GB on drive D:
(Secondary/Master) ~ D:\ Drive

Bios set for the D: drive to the following:

USER 13,410 Cylinders 15 Heads 63 Sectors MODE: NORMAL


o The Fujitsu supplied ERASE and DIAGNOSTIC were executed as required in
a pure DOS environment and both ran to completion without error.
The D: disk is now clean with binary 0's written to the disk!

o Fdisk from DOS ran to completion in the creation of one primary
partition with
no errors and all 6.48GB was recognized.
o Format from DOS ran to completion with no errors for all 6GB.
o After a boot the BIOS shows 6.48GB and W98SE recognizes the D: drive
as 6.03GB and FAT32,,,,so far so good!!!

When the pure DOS execution of "SCANDISK D: /checkonly /surface" the MAP
of
the drive did not show any red colored B's ("some bad sectors"), and all
seems to be good.

However, when the SCANDISK reached the 512,378 CLUSTER (about the 2.09GB
point) SCANDISK hung!! It seemed to be stuck on this CLUSTER with no
further
changes in the display to show any progress of SCANDISK after several
hours
of run time.

The SCANDISK was executed using the following four methods:

1. from Pure DOS (SCANDISK.EXE),
2. a W98SE Recovery boot diskette (SCNADISK.EXE),
3. W98SE SAFE mode using SCANDSKW.EXE, and
4. W98SE normal boot (SCANDSKW.EXE).

All of these SCANDISK started producing errors at the 2.09GB point and the
SCANDISK producing a LOG file showed the errors for all CLUSTERS remaining
on
the disk(???) !!!!.

The SCANDISK found on the C:\ drive are the following:

COMMAND\SCANDISK.EXE 141KB 4/23/99
WINDOWS\SCANDSKW.EXE 5KB 4/23/99 Version 4.70.1998

The SCANDISK used from the W98SE Recovery Diskette is the following:

Eramdrive)\ SCANDISK.EXE 143,818 5/6/98

After searching on the www.support.microsoft.com for any similar
description
the following items were found:

o The IDE upgrade (Article ID = 273017).
o The upgrade for esdi_506.pdr (Article ID=243450)

The description of these did not precisly describe the above SCANDISK
situation but these were installed anyway.

These did not fix the situation.

THANKS for your time, advise, and help!!!

Jerry