Go back to Seagate - ME DOES support scandisk/defrag on drives up to 136GB,
if the disk is properly formatted.

run
FDSIK /STATUS
from a command prompt - see what it tells you


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"Lago Jardin" wrote in message
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Hi

Please see below the copy of my email to Seagate and their reply for
background to my problem.

Today a large new folder (with many large files and sub folders) has just
appeared on my new D: drive. Properties reports it as 83 GIG in size. My
computer still sees most of the drive as free, so its not really there.
Windows ME wont let me delete it or any files/sub folders in it as it says
they are not there.

I have a feeling that it might be a FAT problem? Are there not 2 copies of
FAT for each drive which are compared? I think I remember seeing this
after
using my EBD and running scandisk in DOS a long while ago. Problem is i
cant
scandisk (please see below). I cant use EBD because my BIOS does not see
the large drive. I am virus free and spy/ad free. All other folders on
the
new and old C: drive are fine....for the moment!!

Is there any software that will scandisk my new drive? I dont want to lose
my new folders.

Thanks

Nigel

Copy of my email and Seagate's reply:


Hi I have BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG. It would not detect my
new 120 GIG drive correctly only seeing about 16 GIG although it does see
my
60GIG C: drive.
I have installed my new 120gig seagate drive as secondary master using
Seagate Disk Wizard and switching detect this drive to NONE in the BIOS.
The
drive is fine but i need to defrag it. Defrag tells me to run scandisk
first
because of some errors. When I do this scan disk says i do not have enough
memory to run it. My memory is

Total Physical Memory 511.41 MB
Available Physical Memory 258.09 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.62 GB
Page File Space 1.50 GB

I think that this should be plenty. Scandisk says to close some running
programs so I close everything on taskbar and close everything using
ctrl+ALt+Del except Explorer & Systray. How can i defrag? Can I run
scandisk
using EBD in DOS or wont the new drive be detected? I can scandisk and
defrag the C: drive OK.

Thanks

Nigel


Nigel,

This is a Microsoft issue. Windows ME does not support defrag and
scandisk
on large drives.

This Microsoft article gives more information

http://support.microsoft.com/default...54&Product=w98


Terry H.
Seagate Technical Support






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