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There is an issue I ran into that has to do with how fat32 partitions are
made in win 95/98/etc. and the way that it must be done to work with win
2000. The 95/95 partitioning takes a shortcut that win2000 does not permit,
without it win2000 will not work on a fat32 partition made in 95/98. There
is a fix on the msft web site, but unfortunately I have no memory on how to
find it. Not sure if this relates to your issue.
chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Kaplun" <ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "OMEGA-LIST" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 9:44 PM
Subject: I did NOT miss a thing - or what was wrong with HD
> Hello LIST -
> You were probably following my "saga" with new Hard Drive and Win2000.
> Well here is some details that may be in interest to you. If sometime
> someone will get in the same story, you will know what to do. As my
> supporters, the guys that were active to help me, said: it is rare,
> but may happen.
> My Hard Drive was Seagate 60Gb, IDE-ATA, 60/100/133, 7200, model
> ST360021A.
>
> Friend of mine top notch programmer and computer expert told me
> yesterday night do the following:
> 1. Check cables, switch them, just "top" ends,
> 2. Overwrite Master Boot Record (fdisk /mbr)
> 3. Go to Seagate site and load original diagnostics and run it.
> He said that one of those checks shall reflect on the problem.
>
> --
>
> 1. I switched cables, there was not much positive effect.
>
> 2. I have dos (Win98) diskette that some friend of mine email me.
> When I overwrite master boot record on hard drive with fdisk /mbr it
> can boot itself with dos (Win98) files. After that my HD can boot(!)
> itself with "booting" files. Win2000 still refusing to setup on that
> HD.
> So, that was first problem.
>
> 3. I run original diagnostics and it show(!) that somewhere there is
> a data loss, which Win2000 detected as <<disk drive damaged and
> cannot be repaired>>.
> Win2000 somehow detected problem that no other tool, except Seagate
> original diagnostics, can detect.
> That was the second problem.
>
> Win2000 is good stuff (my conclusion).
> I am exchanging HD on new one.
>
> Val
>
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