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Boot sector writes
Hello again. I have finally managed to fit a new Western Digital caviar 80Gb
drive to my Win98 PC... Had to d/l the new fdisk, which partitioned it into one big partition. I then tried to FORMAT it, but it only recognised it as 10Gb, and there didn't seem to be a new version of that at MS web site. I used partition magic 6, which would only offer me FAT32 if I repartitioned. I know the issues about cluster size, but left it as 4Gb and 72Gb. Partition Magic told me I had to let through boot sector writes even if the BIOS protection flagged them, which I did. However when booting, I got another warning about boot sector writes - do I let the writes happen or not? I have up to date anti-virus. Thanks -- Susan |
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"S.Boardman" wrote in message ... Hello again. I have finally managed to fit a new Western Digital caviar 80Gb drive to my Win98 PC... Had to d/l the new fdisk, which partitioned it into one big partition. I then tried to FORMAT it, but it only recognised it as 10Gb, and there didn't seem to be a new version of that at MS web site. I used partition magic 6, which would only offer me FAT32 if I repartitioned. I know the issues about cluster size, but left it as 4Gb and 72Gb. Partition Magic told me I had to let through boot sector writes even if the BIOS protection flagged them, which I did. However when booting, I got another warning about boot sector writes - do I let the writes happen or not? I have up to date anti-virus. yes, let the partitioning software write to the bootsector |
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"philo" wrote in message ... "S.Boardman" wrote in message ... Hello again. I have finally managed to fit a new Western Digital caviar 80Gb drive to my Win98 PC... Had to d/l the new fdisk, which partitioned it into one big partition. I then tried to FORMAT it, but it only recognised it as 10Gb, and there didn't seem to be a new version of that at MS web site. I used partition magic 6, which would only offer me FAT32 if I repartitioned. I know the issues about cluster size, but left it as 4Gb and 72Gb. Partition Magic told me I had to let through boot sector writes even if the BIOS protection flagged them, which I did. However when booting, I got another warning about boot sector writes - do I let the writes happen or not? I have up to date anti-virus. yes, let the partitioning software write to the bootsector The partitioning software did write at the time. The last one was after the reboot when starting to load win98 ? -- SUasn |
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yes, let the partitioning software write to the bootsector The partitioning software did write at the time. The last one was after the reboot when starting to load win98 ? That's correct. installing an operating system, partitioning the drive, or even changing the label will write to the bootsector... it's not a virus. |
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"philo" wrote in message ... yes, let the partitioning software write to the bootsector The partitioning software did write at the time. The last one was after the reboot when starting to load win98 ? That's correct. installing an operating system, partitioning the drive, or even changing the label will write to the bootsector... it's not a virus. Thanks :-) -- Susan |
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