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Subject: Everest Report
Date: 8 Oct 2006 19:17:10 GMT From: ms Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion ms wrote in : "PCR" wrote in news:uIugB5v6GHA.2364 @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: 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? ms |
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Sorry, editing
This post should read: 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? ms |
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ms wrote:
Subject: Everest Report Date: 8 Oct 2006 19:17:10 GMT From: ms Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion ms wrote in : "PCR" wrote in news:uIugB5v6GHA.2364 @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: 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? I don't think so, but I'm not positive. But there is a "set active" option or button, which I have had to use when cloning my hard drive to a second (backup) one. Normally the second drive HD1 is NOT set active, since the first one (HD0) already is. (I'm talking about booting off the floppy in maintenance mode). 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? ms |
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ms wrote in :
Sorry, editing This post should read: 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? ms BIOS screen on bootup, Primary Master LBA, UDMA 66, 10247 MB Standard Cmos Setup screen: Primary Master Auto Slave None Secondary Master Auto Slave None IDE Autodetect: 2 (Y) 10241 1245 cyl .... LBA mode 1 10248 19856 Normal 3 10248 2482 Large When I ran the Fujitsu diag, (it always ran fine before), it opened and detects a non-Fujitsu hard drive! It won't run, and the only difference is the BIOS is set to Auto. Two issues: a. BING says errors present, doesn't show them. b. now the Fujitsu util does not detect the Fujitsu hard drive. ms |
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Bill, you don't set a hard drive Active, you set a Primary Partition as
Active, and yes, I forgot to mention that in BING you do that in "View MBR", but I *think* the first Primary you create is automatically set Active by BING if no Active partition already exists. Remember that you only need to use a Primary Partition for OS installations. Use an Extended Partition with Volumes for partitions that will be used for data storage only (or TEMP partition or whatever.) -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Bill in Co." wrote in message ... ms wrote: Subject: Everest Report Date: 8 Oct 2006 19:17:10 GMT From: ms Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion ms wrote in : "PCR" wrote in news:uIugB5v6GHA.2364 @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: 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? I don't think so, but I'm not positive. But there is a "set active" option or button, which I have had to use when cloning my hard drive to a second (backup) one. Normally the second drive HD1 is NOT set active, since the first one (HD0) already is. (I'm talking about booting off the floppy in maintenance mode). 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? ms |
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"ms" wrote in message
... | Subject: Everest Report | Date: 8 Oct 2006 19:17:10 GMT | From: ms | Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion | | ms wrote in : | | "PCR" wrote in news:uIugB5v6GHA.2364 | @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: | | | 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. |
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Please delete all partitions. Then look in "View MBR" and click on "Standard
MBR". Then go back and create new partitions. I'm concerned that a drive overlay may exist. I haven't been following the previous mega-thread except in a very cursory manner. Are you certain that no overlay exists (you'd probably use the drive manufacturer's own tools to determine this and remove the overlay if present.) I've never seen that ANP notation in BING and don't know what it means. In my experience, MBR Entry ## is the usual label that's applied to all Primary Partitions BING creates. You might want to check out BING Support, especially the BING forums. http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/support.html There is a paragraph on that page called "TeraByte Sponsored Newsgroups". -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "ms" wrote in message ... Sorry, editing This post should read: 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? ms |
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The Quirke one just reminded me of how I use BING to check partitions.
Select the partition and then click on Resize. The first thing it will do is check the partition. It's only a fast check, and it won't tell you anything about the nature of the error(s) found, if any... I *think*... , and it won't fix anything. For that you'll need to run a real disk checking tool. Personally, I'd leave the partitions the way they are, then use some disk checking tool on them, and if bad sectors are found, toss that HD into the trash -- unless this is only a play machine and you're willing to risk losing everything on it when the disk continues to go bad, and it *will* continue to go bad. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "ms" wrote in message ... ms wrote in : Sorry, editing This post should read: 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? ms BIOS screen on bootup, Primary Master LBA, UDMA 66, 10247 MB Standard Cmos Setup screen: Primary Master Auto Slave None Secondary Master Auto Slave None IDE Autodetect: 2 (Y) 10241 1245 cyl .... LBA mode 1 10248 19856 Normal 3 10248 2482 Large When I ran the Fujitsu diag, (it always ran fine before), it opened and detects a non-Fujitsu hard drive! It won't run, and the only difference is the BIOS is set to Auto. Two issues: a. BING says errors present, doesn't show them. b. now the Fujitsu util does not detect the Fujitsu hard drive. ms |
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Right.
Thanks for the corrections, Gary, my bad! Gary S. Terhune wrote: Bill, you don't set a hard drive Active, you set a Primary Partition as Active, and yes, I forgot to mention that in BING you do that in "View MBR", but I *think* the first Primary you create is automatically set Active by BING if no Active partition already exists. Remember that you only need to use a Primary Partition for OS installations. Use an Extended Partition with Volumes for partitions that will be used for data storage only (or TEMP partition or whatever.) -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Bill in Co." wrote in message ... ms wrote: Subject: Everest Report Date: 8 Oct 2006 19:17:10 GMT From: ms Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion ms wrote in : "PCR" wrote in news:uIugB5v6GHA.2364 @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: 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? I don't think so, but I'm not positive. But there is a "set active" option or button, which I have had to use when cloning my hard drive to a second (backup) one. Normally the second drive HD1 is NOT set active, since the first one (HD0) already is. (I'm talking about booting off the floppy in maintenance mode). 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? ms |
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"ms" wrote in message
... | ms wrote in : | | Sorry, editing | | This post should read: | 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? | | ms | | | | BIOS screen on bootup, | Primary Master LBA, UDMA 66, 10247 MB | | Standard Cmos Setup screen: | Primary Master Auto | Slave None | Secondary Master Auto | Slave None | | IDE Autodetect: | 2 (Y) 10241 1245 cyl .... LBA mode | | 1 10248 19856 Normal | | 3 10248 2482 Large Well, that certainly looks good now, getting the full hard drive. I was overjoyed! There certainly are a huge number of screens in there, though, & I must wonder whether something else is being missed. I've posted the older settings below for someone to comment. | When I ran the Fujitsu diag, (it always ran fine before), it opened and | detects a non-Fujitsu hard drive! It won't run, and the only difference | is the BIOS is set to Auto. Why! Why! Why! BIOS appears to have auto-detected the correct amount of GB for a... Fujitsu MPE 3102AT 10 GB ...., which by Google search is 10.2 GB. What was the utility that said it was a Fujitsu in the first place? Maybe run that again to get a new report. We were so close to getting the full amount! The proper manufacturer's hard drive diagnostic utility is supposed to correct the errors-- not disown the drive! | Two issues: | a. BING says errors present, doesn't show them. | | b. now the Fujitsu util does not detect the Fujitsu hard drive. | | ms .....Quote older BIOS settings........... Standard CMOS Setup Primary Master User 7921 MB ....LBA Primary Slave None 0 Secondary Master Auto 0 Auto Secondary Slave None 0 BIOS Features Hard disk boot from Pri-IDE-M HDD Smart Capability Enabled Power Management HDD Power Down Disabled Integrated Peripherals ?? IDE Channel 10. 11 Enabled IDE Prefetch mode Enabled IDE HDD Block mode Enabled Primary Master P10 auto Primary Master UDMA auto ?? - can't read my own writing! HDD Autodetect Select Primary Master Options Sector 2(Y) 10241..... 63 LBA 1 10248......63 Normal 3 10248 63 Large .......EOQ ms's older BIOS settings.......... |
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