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Microsoft Windows 98 Update: Large IDE

From Microsoft – listed 28 December 1999

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Windows NT 4 SP 6 Windows 2003 SP 1 Windows XP AMD 64-bit Windows XP 64-bit SP 1 Windows NT 4 SP 2 Windows 2000 SP 1 Windows 2003 64-bit Windows 2003 AMD 64-bit Windows XP 64-bit SP 2 Windows NT 4 SP 3 Windows 2000 SP 2 Windows Server 2003 x64 R2 Windows 2000 Windows 2003 64-bit SP 1 Windows Vista AMD 64-bit Windows XP Itanium 64-bit Windows NT 4 SP 4 Windows 2000 SP 3 Windows NT 4 Windows XP 32-bit Windows XP SP 1 Windows Server 2003 x86 R2 Windows ME Windows 2003 Itanium 64-bit Windows NT 4 SP 5 Windows 2000 SP 4 Windows Vista 32-bit Windows XP 64-bit Windows NT 4 SP 1 Windows Server 2008 x64 Windows NT 3 Windows Server 2008 x86 Windows XP Windows Server 2008 Windows 2003 Windows Vista Itanium 64-bit Windows XP Itanium 64-bit SP 1 Windows 2003 32-bit Windows XP Itanium 64-bit SP 2 Windows XP SP 2 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Vista Windows NT Windows 2003 Itanium 64-bit SP 1 Windows XP Pro
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28 December 1999

Publisher's description

This update addresses an issue on Windows�® 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition computers that have an integrated device electronics (IDE) hard disk that is larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size.

If you use the protected-mode (graphical) version of ScanDisk to perform a thorough scan (which includes a surface scan) on an IDE hard disk that is larger than 32 GB, ScanDisk may report errors on every cluster after approximately cluster number 967,393.

This problem only occurs on computers that use a Phoenix BIOS and use the Phoenix BitShift translation algorithm to report the geometry of large IDE hard disks (larger than 32 GB). Your computer is not vulnerable if the BIOS uses logical block addressing (LBA) Assist translation instead of the Phoenix BitShift translation.

NOTE: If you have upgraded from another version of Windows and selected to save your previous version of Windows during the upgrade, you will not be able to uninstall back to your previous version of Windows with this update installed. Disabling the option to uninstall Windows ensures that your system will continue to support your large IDE drive.

More information regarding this update can be found in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB), Article Q243450.

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