Quick help with hard drive needed

Ben · 26-October-03, 09:09 PM

I have a Western digi 60 gig HDD that i recently acquired, and am trying to get 98 to install to it. When 98 ran scandisk it found a size/label error and wanted to do a full surface scan.

After about 2 hours I quit and put the drive in to my machine, (Win XP) and right clicked it, went to format, and the only size I can format to is 7.84 gigs? What the hell?

How do i fix this and fix the bad clusters? The drive shows 55.8 gigs free..

Fantazmic2 · 27-October-03, 03:45 PM

Ben...if you have not figured it out. Did you Fdisk, removing previous Partitions and create a new large Partition the hard drive?

Joose · 27-October-03, 03:54 PM

What version of 98 are you using? Is it earlier than Second Edition?

Vada Fae · 27-October-03, 04:58 PM

Get the WD diagnostic utility from their website and write all zeros to the drive. Should take about a half hour for that size drive. That will at least get the drive all nice and clean for ya.

Ben · 27-October-03, 05:21 PM

Wrote zeros to it with WD lifeguard, problem fixed. Thanks all

26-October-03, 09:09 PM		#1 (permalink)
Ben Mote-Hoe-Cross	HELP! I have a Western digi 60 gig HDD that i recently acquired, and am trying to get 98 to install to it. When 98 ran scandisk it found a size/label error and wanted to do a full surface scan. After about 2 hours I quit and put the drive in to my machine, (Win XP) and right clicked it, went to format, and the only size I can format to is 7.84 gigs? What the hell? How do i fix this and fix the bad clusters? The drive shows 55.8 gigs free.. Last edited by Ben; 26-October-03 at 09:40 PM..

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27-October-03, 03:45 PM		#2 (permalink)
Fantazmic2 King of the Noobs!	Ben...if you have not figured it out. Did you Fdisk, removing previous Partitions and create a new large Partition the hard drive?

27-October-03, 03:54 PM		#3 (permalink)
Joose Joosey	What version of 98 are you using? Is it earlier than Second Edition?

27-October-03, 04:58 PM		#4 (permalink)
Vada Fae Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme	Get the WD diagnostic utility from their website and write all zeros to the drive. Should take about a half hour for that size drive. That will at least get the drive all nice and clean for ya.

27-October-03, 05:21 PM		#5 (permalink)
Ben Mote-Hoe-Cross	Wrote zeros to it with WD lifeguard, problem fixed. Thanks all