usb/ide > 200gig HD > Win98SE, how to scandisk??

[mike]

I have a maxtor 200gig hard drive and a no-name usb2/ide converter
on my win98se system to use for archive storage. The only
sw that came with the converter are the usb driver files.

I formatted it as one big partition and loaded a bunch of stuff on it.
Seems to be working fine.
I tried to scandisk it. I get an error message that I don't
have enough memory to run scandisk.
I tried NDD from Norton 4.0. It tries to fix up a bunch of
errors every time it runs. Surface test detects no problems.
But I get a bunch of fixups every time I run NDD. Takes forever
if there's a lot of stuff on the drive. Pretty quick on an empty
drive.

I thought the USB/IDE converter took care of all the math issues
surrounding big drives on 98se???

So, what do I do to allow me to scandisk (or equivalent utility)
this external usb2/ide hard drive with win98se?
Thanks, mike

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[Rod Speed]

I have a maxtor 200gig hard drive and a no-name usb2/ide converter on my
win98se system to use for archive storage. The only sw that came with the
converter are the usb driver files.

I formatted it as one big partition and loaded a bunch of stuff on it.
Seems to be working fine.
I tried to scandisk it. I get an error message that I don't have enough
memory to run scandisk.

That's normal because win98se doesnt
have support for drives over 127G
http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm

I tried NDD from Norton 4.0.

That's dangerous since its long before 48 bit LBA.

It tries to fix up a bunch of errors every time it runs. Surface test detects
no problems.
But I get a bunch of fixups every time I run NDD. Takes forever if there's a
lot of stuff on the drive. Pretty quick on an empty drive.

I thought the USB/IDE converter took care of all the math issues surrounding
big drives on 98se???

Not entirely as you have found.

So, what do I do to allow me to scandisk (or equivalent utility)
this external usb2/ide hard drive with win98se?

The latest NDD might support it.