DaveW <somewhere@zero.org> wrote:

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

Thats what the DDO is supposed to be for.


> "DJW" <ddwr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1164816284.460543.60180@14g2000cws.googlegrou ps.com...
>> 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?