-> Hello, ALL.  I'm trying to help Wayne C. with some 'puter problems he is
-> currently having, and some of them are beyond my ken.

-> I'm posting here in order that we may both have the benefit of the tech
-> advice of others, and for critique in case I give him any bad advice.
-> This will be a series of posts, in order to try and address the probs
-> one issue at a time.

Don't bother, it's toast.

-> This was partially discussed in the Win95 echo back in Dec.
-> For background, he has an older Celeron 433 system, and his mobo
-> BIOS will not support HDD larger than 8GB or so.  
   
Wrong value, not > 32 Gig.

-> He has obtained a
-> 65 GB HDD, and intended to install a dual-boot configuration of Linux
-> and Win98FE.
   
Incorrect.
I intended to boot is out of DOS as the Linux script determined
this could be done with this system.

->  His recent project was to install a Promise Ultra66 biosed
-> controller card in order to access capacity of the HDD, and to run it
-> faster than the UDMA33 supported by his onboard controller. 
   
The reason for the card was to overcome the 32 gig barrier.

-> He relates
-> that he had partitioned the HDD correctly using the FDISK utility
-> from Linux, setting aside an 8GB partition for exclusive use by Winders.

This is true.

-> Disaster struck when he went to install Win98FE from an OEM disc. It
-> appears that the Linux FDISKed the HDD to full 65GB, 
   
Nope, it wrapped the drive overwriting the MBR and is no longer
detectable by the Promise I/O card or by Linux fdisk.
It WAS the OEM Windows software that trashed the drive.

-> 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.

-> Question - -  how can his HDD be saved?

Use it as a paperweight?
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