"WAYNE CHIRNSIDE" bravely wrote to "ROY J. TELLASON"
(26 Feb 05  05:44:26)
 --- on the heady topic of "Win98FE Harddrivicide?"

 -> TOM WALKER wrote in a message to JIM HOLSONBACK:

 -> -> Disaster struck when he went to install Win98FE from an OEM disc. It
 -> -> appears that the Linux FDISKed the HDD to full 65GB, and in the Win98
 -> -> installation process, somehow, Windows FDISK was run.  Win98FE has a
 -> -> problem with HDD>64MB, and it appears that the damn thing
wrapped-around
 -> -> the HDD addressing, overwriting his MBR.  He now says that the HDD is
 -> -> dead beyond any recovery, can't be FDISKed or even recognized in his
 -> -> system.


Hi, found an old message from Ben Ritchie relating to this:

 Mike


 Area: Microsoft Windows International Echo
 Date: 25 Aug 03  05:06:25
 From: BEN RITCHEY
 Subj: New File(s)

 Microsoft has released an updated version of FDISK.EXE for Windows 98-SE (only,
 NOT for 98 1st Edition) that supports Hard Drives from 64 GB up to 137 GB
 (any/all 48-bit LBA). Without this fix, running FDisk on drives over 64 GB
 would report an INVALID size (equal to the actual GB less 64).

 Note: If you send me your E-mail address via routed or direct Netmail (private
 to 1:393/68) I will send you the file as an attached Zip (only 40kB).


  Area : Microsoft System Files/Pgms
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  FDSK98SE.TXT          82  08-25-03    01:47:22
  FDSK98SE.ZIP      40,205  08-25-03    01:48:04
          Updated FDISK.EXE from Microsoft for Win98SE
           for Drives to 137 GB (48-bit LBA)

 I also have available :

  MESCNDSK.ZIP       3,083  10-30-02    23:21:50
          Windows ME Scandskw.Exe program that runs
           great under Win98SE ( and MUCH faster!)

  PICKAPIC.BAT       1,244  02-23-03    11:50:58
  PICKAPIC.TXT       3,620  02-23-03    19:24:14
  PICKAPIC.ZIP     136,822  02-23-03    11:51:26
          My Win98SE Background Wallpaper rotate and
           convert utilities (DOS based, Freeware).

 --
 Keep the faith,

  Ben
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