I think your older motherboard's BIOS may be unable to recognize a harddrive
that large.

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DaveW

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"DJW" <ddwr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Bad Hard drive or doing something wrong?
>
> I bought a used Seagate Medallist 8641 St38641A 8 GB hard drive on
> ebay.
> I installed it in a Compaq Presario 5204 desktop machine. Partitioned
> it with Seagate's latest edition of Disc Wizard on two floppies made
> from a download from their site.
> All was going well got windows 98SE on it and it booted but as soon as
> I started putting applications back on it and restarting between each
> install at about 212 MB of data on it, it failed to boot. Redid it all
> again and the same thing happened. So I put my old 4 GB Seagate that
> came with the machine back in and reset the jumpers on the 8 GB to non
> on for slave and as my computer manual says also set a jumper to cable
> select to set and put it in the slave position. Did the partition and
> reformat with disk wizard. Started to load more applications on it and
> somewhere along the line it gave me a warning at restart that the disk
> may be damaged. It ran scan disk I guess in the blue screen DOS mode
> and when it gets to cluster 121,289 about of a total clusters or
> 1,048,864 it slows to a ridiculous crawl. And starts to say that
> portion of the disk is bad and locks out for use that section and I
> guess moves the data to a new area of the disk. However this is
> continuing on cluster by cluster and I ran it all night maybe 15 hours
> and it got to cluster 150,000 (something) and is still locking out the
> areas as bad.
> Now With Seagate's disk Wizard it installed Dynamic Disk Overlay to I
> guess both hard drives in order to see the full 8GB of the slave. I
> believe way back at first when I tried to use the drive as the primary
> it only saw like 2.1 GB of the drive until I ran the Disc Wizard
> application.
> The question in all this is do you think I have a bad hard drive
> somewhere at 200 MB and beyond or is it that the computer being a
> 1998-99 manufactured motherboard still can not use the larger capacity.
> In my computer folder set to view as web page it show 8 GB for the size
> for it.
> I have purchased a few used IDE 8 to 10 GB drives on ebay that are on
> the way do you think I will run into the same problems. And will or
> should I use Seagate's application to partition and install the DDO
> again. One is a Quantum fireball with is now supported by Maxtor, which
> is owned by Seagate as the information I see on line about who owns and
> supports who.
> Am I basically doing something wrong? Have I missed a step or done a
> redundant conflicting thing? Or do I just maybe have a bad Hard Drive?
> One more sideline question of many and it only happens when I am not
> doing anything to or on the slave but I hear it spin down to off is
> that normal for a slave?
>