keep losing 3rd partition data

A friend has a PII400 system, with Win98 SE, which was upgraded a long time
ago over the first addition.

He partitions a 60GB drive into 3 partitions.

The 3rd partition loses its data. He just wiped this drive clean,
re-partitioned, copied all old files to c:, d:, e:. The next day
there was some problem accessing files on E: He did a scandisk, and it
turned all the files on the drive to .chk files, ugh!

The fdisks, format, and subsequent scandisks all went smoothly-aka,
according to these utilities, the E: area is not physically bad.

He has a couple CD ROMS, and a ZIP drive (which is F.) I wondered
if there was some interference there.

My friend said there is a "known issue" that causes this in Windows 98,
and it depends on how space is allocated percentage-wise among the
3 partitions. I've never heard of this.

Thanks for any advice,

John

What are the three partition types? There should be a primary partition and
one extended partition, so that D and E are logical drives in the extended
partition. If the partitioning follows some other arrangement Windows will
have problems.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"JohnB" wrote in message
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A friend has a PII400 system, with Win98 SE, which was upgraded a long time
ago over the first addition.

He partitions a 60GB drive into 3 partitions.

The 3rd partition loses its data. He just wiped this drive clean,
re-partitioned, copied all old files to c:, d:, e:. The next day
there was some problem accessing files on E: He did a scandisk, and it
turned all the files on the drive to .chk files, ugh!

The fdisks, format, and subsequent scandisks all went smoothly-aka,
according to these utilities, the E: area is not physically bad.

He has a couple CD ROMS, and a ZIP drive (which is F.) I wondered
if there was some interference there.

My friend said there is a "known issue" that causes this in Windows 98,
and it depends on how space is allocated percentage-wise among the
3 partitions. I've never heard of this.

Thanks for any advice,

John

"JohnB" wrote in message
.. .
A friend has a PII400 system, with Win98 SE, which was upgraded a long
time
ago over the first addition.

He partitions a 60GB drive into 3 partitions.

The 3rd partition loses its data. He just wiped this drive clean,
re-partitioned, copied all old files to c:, d:, e:. The next day
there was some problem accessing files on E: He did a scandisk, and it
turned all the files on the drive to .chk files, ugh!

The fdisks, format, and subsequent scandisks all went smoothly-aka,
according to these utilities, the E: area is not physically bad.

He has a couple CD ROMS, and a ZIP drive (which is F.) I wondered
if there was some interference there.

My friend said there is a "known issue" that causes this in Windows 98,
and it depends on how space is allocated percentage-wise among the
3 partitions. I've never heard of this.

Thanks for any advice,

John


run a harddrive diagnostic test ...
the software may very well have come with the drive...
but if not, it should be a free download from the mfg's website.

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:01:40 -0600, philo wrote:

"JohnB" wrote in message
.. .
A friend has a PII400 system, with Win98 SE, which was upgraded a long
time
ago over the first addition.

He partitions a 60GB drive into 3 partitions.

The 3rd partition loses its data. He just wiped this drive clean,
re-partitioned, copied all old files to c:, d:, e:. The next day
there was some problem accessing files on E: He did a scandisk, and it
turned all the files on the drive to .chk files, ugh!

The fdisks, format, and subsequent scandisks all went smoothly-aka,
according to these utilities, the E: area is not physically bad.

He has a couple CD ROMS, and a ZIP drive (which is F.) I wondered
if there was some interference there.

My friend said there is a "known issue" that causes this in Windows 98,
and it depends on how space is allocated percentage-wise among the
3 partitions. I've never heard of this.

Thanks for any advice,

John


run a harddrive diagnostic test ...
the software may very well have come with the drive...
but if not, it should be a free download from the mfg's website.

Not sure why: This PII400 / Win98 system had originally partitioned the
60GB hard drive using drive parameters that are different from the actual
hard drive. Had to use the hard drive utility to delete the partitions,
and re-partition. Partition Magic warned not to use the OS utilities nor
the PM utilities, because they would repeat the same mistake, somehow not
knowing the actual drive parameters.

thanks,

John