I have a 20 GB Quantum Fireball HDD, only < 3 months old. It was working good. Now, for the purpose of dual booting (Win 98 & Win NT), I partitioned it as follows (booting the system from Windows 98SE CD) using FDISK. 125MB – primary (active) – Fat 16 19344MB – extended – Fat 32 Logical drives in extended partition as 4094 MB 4094 MB 4094 MB 4094 MB 2968 MB After that, I tried installing NT 4 from the CD booting the system with NT setup CD. On starting NT setup, it shows as (to install on) C – unformatted or damaged -- 4094 Fat 32 (I Assume this as D) -- 4094 Fat 32 (and this as E) Unformated or damaged I tried installing on D, E and also the Unformatted space. It didn’t work. Then I tried deleting the partition D from the same menu. It also failed. Finally I quit setup. After that when I tried FDISK again, booting from 98SE CD, it is showing the first screen to select the large disk support. After selecting the option from here (both the options I tried), the system is hanging. After that I tried installing Win98SE booting the system from 98 CD. After running Scandisk during the setup it is exiting to Dos Prompt. From Dos prompt I can change to all the three disks (C, D & E). DIR command on C shows 131,297,280 bytes free. On D it shows 4,292,542,464 bytes free and on E 4,285,161,472 bytes free. Tried Diagnose disk from NDD on all the three drives. On C it did not show any error. On D, analyzing directory structure it terminated showing the run-time error R6003 integer divide by 0. On checking E it gave the message “Unable to read from E:. Make sure a disk is in the drive and the device driver is installed and valid”. Running the NDIAGS it shows the drive details as: C 128M 1st Had disk D 272 K Device Driver E Unknown Device Driver Please advise me how to solve this situation and bring back this disk to normal. Is something wrong with the disk. Since this is a new disk, is it better to get a replacement for the disk or is it a minor repairable error. Awaiting your valuable advices. Thanks Mubarak Mubarak_c@yahoo.com / hajuc@yahoo.com

Windows NT does not support FAT32. You need to use either FAT16 or NTFS with Windows NT. Or you could use Windows 2000 which does support FAT32. Windows 98 and ME do support FAT32.