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Need Help with Win98 FAT32 Drive Converter

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Mad Dog

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Jul 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/12/98
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I just installed the Windows 98 Upgrade to my Windows 95 PII 266
Micron PC. One of the primary reasons I purchased it was for the
additional drive space promised by the FAT32 file system. My computer
has a 6.4 GB hard drive which is partioned into a 1.99 GB C: drive, a
1.99 GB D: drive and a 2.03 GB E: drive.
After much difficulty I finally got the C: drive converted, but only
after going to the Microsoft Support site and downloading a document
on dealing with the "Not enough memory" error message and doing the
conversion in "real" mode.
Now I cannot get my D and E drives converted...when I try to convert
the D drive I get a message saying it cannot get a "lock" on the
drive. I can't seem to convert it from real mode...in fact in real
mode I can't get the D: prompt....it's like the drive is not there.
When I try to do the E: drive I get a message there is an error on the
drive and that I should run scandisk to fix it, but when I run
scandisk, either standard or through, it does not find any errors.
I would appreciate if anyone has any experience or ideas they could
e-mail to me.

Thanks,

Mike
den...@primenet.com

Bad Dog

y sepping

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Jul 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/18/98
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On 12 Jul 1998 19:56:01 -0700, den...@primenet.com (Mad Dog) wrote:

>I just installed the Windows 98 Upgrade to my Windows 95 PII 266
>Micron PC. One of the primary reasons I purchased it was for the
>additional drive space promised by the FAT32 file system. My computer
>has a 6.4 GB hard drive which is partioned into a 1.99 GB C: drive, a
>1.99 GB D: drive and a 2.03 GB E: drive.
>After much difficulty I finally got the C: drive converted, but only
>after going to the Microsoft Support site and downloading a document
>on dealing with the "Not enough memory" error message and doing the
>conversion in "real" mode.
>Now I cannot get my D and E drives converted...when I try to convert
>the D drive I get a message saying it cannot get a "lock" on the
>drive. I can't seem to convert it from real mode...in fact in real
>mode I can't get the D: prompt....it's like the drive is not there.
>When I try to do the E: drive I get a message there is an error on the
>drive and that I should run scandisk to fix it, but when I run
>scandisk, either standard or through, it does not find any errors.


May-be you can find "help" from PartitionMagic, see
http://www.kiirtee.ee/~yllse/readme_pqmag.txt
http://www.kiirtee.ee/~yllse/pqmag_boot305.zip (579 kb)

yll


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