Hi Friends, 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

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Read post 3279 on this forum; it gives you a very viable way to set it all up; your installation will have more logical-drives than 3279, but that's no problem... (All credit the chap who posted it way back.) In this approach NT will go into D: 'drive'; this will be created - but NOT formatted... using the '98 bootdisk. Currently your D: 'drive = FAT32; that's part of your problem... NT cannot install into FAT32 areas. In 3279 you install NT first (and then make the ERD - which keep handy!). Read 3279 carefully before proceeding; it's all in there.. M$ and others will advise that 'all' FAT32 areas go after NT boot-partition (where NT system files go); i.e. that the '98 boot-partition (where the system files, the OS itself go) etc. being at the end of the HD - rather than the start/middle. Are you absolutely 'sure' that C: = FAT16... and not FAT32? I suggest you re-run Fdisk, and clear out the HD totally; then follow 3279, modifying it to accomodate your personal requirements regarding assorted 'logical-drives'. When using '98 Fdisk to create/format the C: system (active Primary) partition - do not enable 'large disk support'! You will also need to address the NT and larger HD's; NT doesn't like HD's over 7.8/8Gig - unless you provided the updated ATAPI.exe. Visit John Savill's FAQ's - specifically: http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13894 for full details on this issue. John Savills (complete) FAQ's at: http://www.windows2000faq.com - part of http://www.win2000mag.com Also read the M$ item suggested in post-1; it may have some bearing here too.

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