"ms" wrote in message
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| Subject: Everest Report
| Date: 8 Oct 2006 19:17:10 GMT
| From: ms
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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| ms wrote in :
|
| "PCR" wrote in news:uIugB5v6GHA.2364
| @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
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|
| But what does this line mean, then? Has it changed...?...
|
| Primary Master User 7921 MB ....LBA
|
| ... If so, to what? If it now says "Auto" there, does it still say
| just 7921 MB? Is it still LBA? Could be you also need to delete
those
| empty partitions you've got before the BIOS will detect the hard
| drive right. But I just don't know, not for sure.
|
| Good news
| In my BING screen "Work with Partitions", I created 4 FAT32
partitions.
| They completely use the 10 GB hard drive, no free space.
|
| The first 3 are listed in the screen with names including ANP, the
last
| one is MBR Entry 3. There is no indication the first partition is
active.
| Does BING do that automatically?
|
| When I created the last partition, it went OK. When it completed
| formatting and error checking, looked OK but now at the top of the
screen
| is the legend "errors exist". I looked in Properties in each
partition,
| no error notation.
|
| Comment?

I begin to suspect the prior owner limited the size of that hard drive
purposely because it had errors he couldn't fix. I would run that
Fujitsu diagnostic utility on it, & see what it says. Delete that bad
partition first. Try creating it again, afterwards, if the utility
reports it did a repair.

Absolutely, as Colorado said, only one partition per hard drive
should/can be marked Active. It should be a Primary, too. The Active one
is the one that will boot to Windows.