From: Edwin A Camin (camin_at_ed-camin.com)
Date: Thu Mar 04 1999 - 00:25:29 EST
Thanks Tom. That never occured to me. I'll try it this PM.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom A. Trottier" <TomATrottier_at_home.com>
To: "Edwin A Camin" <camin_at_ed-camin.com>; <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: 6.4 gig drive LBA error
> 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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