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Im Havin problems booting my my WIN98SE computer. It
keeps pulling a "Windows Protection Error" on me. I tried many of the steps in in KB article 188867 and article 302956 (except disabling items in Device manager and dealing with TSR's). So, I tried to replace my current slave drive on my WINME PC with that one. The BIOS saw the drive, but Windows did not (Yes, the pins were moved to the correct position.) Any help here. Either that or help me get Windows to read my CD-ROM in Safe Mode so I can repair my faulty files found by System File Checker. Thank you. |
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If you want data preserved when you move a drive from one machine to another
you must ensure that the BIOS sees the same drive geometry (CHS information). Check the BIOS setting for the drive geometry in the original system, and make sure the setting in the ME system is identical. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (DTS) "Matt" wrote in message ... Im Havin problems booting my my WIN98SE computer. It keeps pulling a "Windows Protection Error" on me. I tried many of the steps in in KB article 188867 and article 302956 (except disabling items in Device manager and dealing with TSR's). So, I tried to replace my current slave drive on my WINME PC with that one. The BIOS saw the drive, but Windows did not (Yes, the pins were moved to the correct position.) Any help here. Either that or help me get Windows to read my CD-ROM in Safe Mode so I can repair my faulty files found by System File Checker. Thank you. |
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Yes, the BOIS can see the drive as a slave, But whats this
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geometry:drives are 1or more platters/disks, divided up into circular tracks,
divided into sectors, there are different combinations of tracks disk sectors that add up to the same size in MB if the bios recognises the drive with rifight size but the wrong geometry it may write to occupied clusters, or non existent ones and fail(or other 4 letter word starting with f) the disk, as long as the bios recognises the disk correctly then those failures are very unlikely. -- Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/ Catalog of removal tools http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters wrote in message ... | Yes, the BOIS can see the drive as a slave, But whats this | about drive geometry? |
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A hard disk drive is seen by the operating system as a string of
sequentially numbered clusters. However, the actual disk location is referenced internally as a cylinder number, a head number and a sector number. Drive geometry is the process where a cluster number is translated into a cylinder/head/sector (CHS) reference. Originally, this was a simple translation dictated by the drive, but modern IDE drives can do the translation in a number of different ways. If the drive is configured as AUTO then the translation _should_ be done in a predefined standard manner, but this can't be guaranteed. Same applies to LARGE. In the worst case you may have to manually enter the CHS values for the drive in order to make them match from one machine to another. The geometry settings are established at the same place in BIOS setup that you saw that the second drive was properly recognised. For the new machine to assign a drive letter to the drive it only has to see a valid DOS partition. So the fact that you aren't getting a drive letter assigned indicates that it is not properly reading just the first few sectors of the disk (which it should be able to do even if there were a slight geometry mismatch). Assuming the drive is working OK and is jumpered correctly, then this indicates a major geometry mismatch. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (DTS) wrote in message ... Yes, the BOIS can see the drive as a slave, But whats this about drive geometry? |
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