Bad 4 Gb Seagate HD fails on Windows98 but not on Amiga. How come ??

[Effy]

that_punk_guy : I'm now listening to 'Standaside' and it somehow makes me so quiet ... also 'that's for leaving me alone', two songs that I find on your website and that you call 'new song' ... I am definitely not the sliming type and I even often listen to rave and house but I do seem to like your songs ...  :-)

[that_punk_guy]

Thanks :-)

He he I read your post wrong the first time, I thought it said "I'm not the slimming type" :-D

[that_punk_guy]

If you're a Python fan you might recognise the title 'Stand Aside, Worthy Adversary' from somewhere...



Although it has nothing to do with the song itself :-)

[Effy]

I do recognize the picture and where it comes from. Must be hard to fight if ya're even gonna lose both arms and legs  :-P
And I still am not the sliming type, I just say honest what's on my mind !

[voytech]

@Effy
I had a 4,3 Gb hdd that couldn't be formatted on piss-se, so I hooked it up to my miggy, formatted, and got 4,3 Gb of space.. Not exactly what I expected - the very first cylinder of this hd was screwed up, that's why it couldn't be formatted under pc - but Amiga is great, so I moved RDB from sect 0 to sect 5 (the max sector for RDB is 7,[ might be wrong] but could cause some problems when set to it, so I used 5), and got fully usable, bootable hdd.. Ever tried moving RDB, maybe your disk is damaged the same way as mine..

[Effy]

Wooow, hold on a sec, how the #### do you remove the RDB ?? Please tell me before it's Mondaymorning and the garbagetruck comes passing by !!!!!   :-o

[voytech]

@Effy
I used few programs to do that. First you have to create partitions on this disk, then using Rigids (my favorite) (from here) you have to back up your rdb (i recommend using 2 floppy disks - it's just for sure you won't write screwed RDB to hdd later), then you have to completly delete all partitions eg with hdtoolbox, save changes, reboot, and write down your RDB backup from floppy to a specified offset (I recommend 3 to 5 ) of your hdd.. One very important thing, read the manual, cos I did this a long time ago, and don't remember the syntax of Rigids right now.. And remember to use correct device name and number for target hdd

BTW the same way you can create a hybrid disk, PC+Amiga
on one hd, I did it too, but it's a little bit harder..

Hope that will help

[voytech]

@Effy
Leave me a message if you did that and it helped or not..
cheers

[Hammer]

Effy wrote:
The following question is not a complaint but more a way to try to understand something. Here at home I have got several pc's, Pentium3's, that I buy in Germany (Ebay) and try to sell them in Belgium to make a bit of profit. Doesn't always work because sometimes some things don't work, like a harddrive. Then I try to re-format that harddrive and usually it works again and I can install Windows98 SE when having 64 Mb Ram or Windows XP Pro when having 128 Mb Ram. But now I end up with two Seagate model ST36531A 4 Gb harddrives that I can not format using Fdisk and the format-command. On one hd it breaks off the format and on the other I can't even use Fdisk on.  Bummer. #### happens I guess. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. So in a last attempt to get some life out of it I connected them to my A1200 PPC with Powerflyer Zorro4 controller and booted up with Install 3.1 disc and now I am formatting the first hd after HDtoolbox divided the hd in two partitions of 2047 K ... 2nd partition is formatting now and the first one is done and okay. How come this works on Amiga and not on PC ?? What is the technical reason for this ?? Saying 'pc sucks' is too easy, I prefer a better answer. Does this mean that every Amiga user can go to his pc friends and say 'hey if you have got a so called crashed harddrive then just give it to me'

Have you tried the following  
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/ata_llfmt_what.html

[Effy]

Damn, my girlfriend is so at that I can´t find one harddrive anymore ...  :-x

[Piru]

(the max sector for RDB is 7,[ might be wrong] but could cause some problems when set to it, so I used 5)

Any of the 16 first blocks.

[Piru]

@Effy

Let the dead rest in peace. :-)