From: Tom A. Trottier (TomATrottier_at_home.com)
Date: Sat Mar 03 2001 - 14:47:09 EST
Dear Edwin,
The setup program has a number of switches, including one to skip the
disk test. Check out the MS support site.
Since the problem occurs at 99%, why not fdisk the drive 2% smaller &
try it?
Tom
On 2 Mar 1999, at 1:15, sayeth Edwin A Camin <camin_at_ed-camin.com>
Thanks Bill. But I have already done that. To wit: I saved all the
files to another drive on my desktop unit. Then I deleted the two
partitions (2 & 4.4). Then I repartitioned it into one large
partition. Then I moved all the files back onto the new partition.
The dates on the files indicate that it is the original version of
win98. My win98 also has the same dates, however I don't have it
installed on any computer, so I saved the user & system data files to
another disk. Then I move the user & system files from my win98se
drive.(A gamble at best) When I boot up in the TP600, it found
dozens of new hardware and after many reboots, it finally got to the
point of loading Explorer. It hangs at that point. That is about
the last file to load before it is fully loaded. Then it should look
for my startup files.
So next I tried to load my cdrom win98 and it always starts outwith
a scandisk. It then tells me that the LBA (logical block addressing)
is disabled at the end of the disk. I don't know how to enable it but
it allowed me to bypass it. During scandisk, it found 500+ bad
clusters at the 99% point. Right now I'm ready to send it back
unless someone can tell me how to "enable" the LBA and then if I'm
able to successfully reformat it.By the way, I did try the
productkey from my win98 cd and it was rejected.
...
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