[TechAssist] Re: UPDATERe: Friends Gateway 500 essential,won't load win98

  • From: "TechAssist Admin." <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 03:46:08 -0500

Yeah, linux was not the issue here though..that's whole
'nother topic.  It is much more stable to use a
manufacturer's installation disk, well..because it's their
own, and that's exactly why; they do use special formatting
procedures which are best suited for their specific name
brand hard drive.  Now, ezdrive can be bad news, I don't
recommend it, (unless of course like you said, a mobo bios
limitation) but I do recommend maxblast installation IF of
course a Maxtor HD is used.  It (and so does western
digital's, seagate's, etc. versions) loads diagnostic
utilities, UDMA & PIO settings, and recovery procedures that
can really save your neck.  A 'generic format' does not.  If
an MBR virus does hit, you'd probably have problems rewriting
to a HD regardless of the format method.  With a good AV
program and daily updates, this would not that much of a
concern.

Yes, the win98 CD is bootable and it will format a HD, if of
course the mobo's BIOS has the option to boot from a CDROM
drive.
-Clint

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----- Original Message -----
From: <jmgoins.tn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 3:33 AM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: UPDATERe: Friends Gateway 500
essential,won't load win98


I personally do not recommend using EZDRIVE, MAXBLAST, or
anything like
that to setup a harddrive, unless you have a Bios that is not
compatible
with the harddrive. I think these things write their own
oddball master
boot record, and if any thing happens to it  (i.e. virus) you
might have
problems rewriting it. Also have doubts about these things'
compatiblity
with a LILO loader, if you want ever to install Linux.
  I believe the W98 CD is bootable, so if you set the CD as
the first boot
device, it should boot. I think the W98 setup will partition
and format the
drive. ( I am not 100% sure, because, I always setup
manually, because I
want more control.


At 09:20 PM 10/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>Ron, you never want to run Fdisk unless you absolutely have
>to.  Just use the format utility from the hard drive's
>manufacturer, this is always the best and fastest way.  The
>win98 installation floppy has CDROM drivers on it, that's
how
>it installs windows from the CD.  Do you need me to email it
>to you?
>-Clint
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ron Miller" <rlmbkm@xxxxxxxx>
>To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 8:50 AM
>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: UPDATERe: Friends Gateway 500
>essential,won't load win98
>
>
>
>Downloaded GWscan tested hard drive with it failed the
>test,time for a new
>hard drive.
> I do need a Win98 boot disk with a D driver.
> Question will the boot disk let me run F-disk and format
one
>new HD?
>Attachments and scans OK. rlmbkm@xxxxxxxx       Thanks
>Ron Miller
>D.T.V. Texas
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dave" <dazevedo4@xxxxxxxx>
>To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 11:18 AM
>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Friends Gateway 500
essential,won't
>load win98
>
>
>>
>> you can also down load gwscan from gateway web site, this
>also has a hard
>> drive test on it.
>> Dave
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "TechAssist Admin."
<techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 8:21 AM
>> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Friends Gateway 500
>essential,won't load win98
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Ron, don't let scandisk run.  What happens when you exit
>from
>> > scandisk, will it then go into windows?  If so, run
>scandisk
>> > then.  If not, start in safe mode then go into windows
>and
>> > run scandisk.  If it will not boot into safe mode, boot
>to
>> > the command prompt (C:) and run scandisk from there and
>see
>> > what happens.  Have you tried to restore a previous
>version
>> > of the registry?
>> > -Clint
>> >
>> > God Bless Us All
>> > Clint Hamilton, Owner
>> > http://OrpheusComputing.com
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>> > From:           "Ron Miller" <rlmbkm@xxxxxxxx>
>> > To:             <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Subject:        [TechAssist] Friends Gateway 500
>> > essential,won't load win98
>> > Date sent:      Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:07:17 -0500
>> > Send reply to:  techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Turn on get Win98 splash screen then scandisk comes on
>and
>> > tries to run but get
>> > > this message:scandisk encountered a data error while
>> > reading the FAT on drive C.
>> > > This error prevents scandisk from fixing this drive.
>> > >  Given this info is the C drive blown or can I make
>further
>> > test .
>> > > Ron Miller
>> > > D.T.V. Texas
>> > >
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