I have been experiencing problems on a Seagate hard drive. It is a 30.6 Gig Baracuda drive with ATA 66 capability. The Hard drive first ran on a PII system using ATA 33 and it worked fine with no problems. The computer was upgraded to a PIII system which uses the VIA chipsets on the motherboard. I have changed the IDE cable on the drive to use the ATA 66, but since then, even if I repartition the drive with this cable and reload Windows 98, I get problems on my FAT table, and scandisk truncatesthe files on the drive, it doesn’t matter how many times in succesion you run scandisk, it gives the same problem. If I put the old cable back, under Windows the drive struggles to read the FAT table, but then there is no problems. Under Dos, using the new and the old cable, there is no problems with the FAT. Is there a problem on the drive itself, or is there a patch from Microsoft to correct this problem, because it only starts acting up after loading about 7 gig. I have installed the latest chipset drivers, but it still does the same if you use VIA’s driver or if you just use the Windows standard driver. Can anyone hlp please?
