* Crossposted from: WIN95
I installed a large IDE HD just recently and I have been bitten by
this corruption bug. Maybe some of you should download this fix
before you happen to run into this one when it will be too late.
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/system-updates.htm
Disk Type Specific Driver Update for Windows 95 (Download: 114K,
self-extracting Zip file, published: June 27th, 1996)
This update resolves a problem in Windows 95 which may, in certain
specific configurations, lead to corrupted data on extended
partitions on large IDE drives.
This problem may arise if all of the below conditions are true:
The hard disk is a large (>504 MB) Enhanced IDE hard disk.
The hard disk is accessed using Logical Block Addressing (LBA).
The hard disk has been partitioned into multiple partitions
with the Windows 95 version of FDISK, or another partitioning
utility that creates MS-DOS extended partition types 0x0E and
0x0F.
The system BIOS supports extended INT13 functions to access
hard disk devices.
You have exited to MS-DOS mode from Windows 95 without
rebooting the computer.
Under these conditions, the contents of logical drives in the
extended partition may appear incorrect or corrupted. If these
logical drives are written to under this condition, information may
be written incorrectly to these drives, resulting in data
corruption.
Users of computers with large IDE hard disks (greater than 504mb),
partitioned into multiple logical drives, with a system BIOS that
supports extended INT13 functions, should obtain this update.
(c)1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Legal Notices.
contents revised Feb. 21,1997
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