DonLogan <navajo@neonfeather.com> wrote

Yep, looks like you have got fanged by lack of support for drives
over 137GB, the copy wrapped over the front of the drive when
it got past the 137GB level and corrupted the partition.

You need more than that, you need to fix the 137G problem.

Not a trivial thing to do with W98.
http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm
http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm

Why arent you running XP ? Its a lot easier to support drives over 137G.

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message news:4fg9nsF1j4g7nU1@individual.net
So please tell us, Roddles, how does a system that doesn't have support
for drives over 137GB know that the drive is over 137GB -without using
support for drives over 137GB- in order to even be able to try writing
over the 137GB mark?

Folkert Rienstra <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote:
Even a cretin such as yourself should be able to work out how
to produce a 200G partition on a drive in a system which doesnt
support drives over 137G, if someone was actually stupid enough
to lend you a seeing eye dog and a white cane.

DonLogan <navajo@neonfeather.com> wrote
Writing past the 137G level doesnt necessarily stomp on the
first physical sector on the drive, where the partition table is.

So you dont necessarily see the invalid media type for a while.

If it has wrapped, its not trivial to clean the results of that up.

If you were just copying, its much safer
to fix the wrap and then copy again.

Sure, but Win98 doesnt support 48lba.

Thats dangerous given that problems with 48lba support in Win98.

Check what ? A reformat will fix any problem.

"DonLogan" <navajo@neonfeather.com> wrote in message news:udk6925qkie68e1b8l89lffokqav9mut2p@4ax.com
Yep, 'Sounds'. Except that you know better.

See.

With 60GB wiped out already below the 137GB mark without you even noticing?
Missing out on the partition table, partition bootblock the FATs and the directories?
Yeah right.
Far too much coincidence there to miss overwriting those and not notice anything.

Roddles is blowing smoke up your ass, 'as always'.

Try Zvi Netiv's R e s Q d i s k .

DonLogan <navajo@neonfeather.com> wrote
I dont know of any decent free one. I like
Easy Recovery Pro myself, but it isnt free.

Folkert Rienstra <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote:
The copy was done overnight, fuckwit.

The copy was done overnight, fuckwit.

We'll see...