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'Alexander Grigoriev' <al..@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Norman,
> Microsoft doesn't have much time to fix things. They are always busy
> making other bugs and misfeatures. You know, their bugfix process is so
> heavy and overcomplicated, they would rather prefer not to do that.
>
> 'Norman Diamond' <ndiamond@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
> news:eSL2jViFJHA.768@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl..
>> The subject is old news, but I finally analysed this bug a few months ago
>> and it still seems outrageous that no fix was ever offered. This report
>> and
>> links are also posted on the web.
>> http://www.geocities.jp/hitotsubishi/w95_fdisk_format/
>>
>> My first personally owned computer came with Windows 95 OSR2
>> preinstalled.
>> Shortly after buying it, I added peripherals which seemed appropriate for
>> making backups: an external 3200MB SCSI hard disk drive, a PCMCIA-SCSI
>> adapter card to connect the PC to the disk, a cable, and a terminator. At
>> this point, I had just finished buying equipment suitable for Windows 95
>> to
>> lose every file, but I didn't know it yet. Gradually I made backups of
>> some
>> files, made backups of some more files, made backups of some more files,
>> and
>> then saw that the backups of my most important files didn't exist any
>> more.
>>
>> Over several months I visited the retail store several times where I had
>> bought the equipment, exchanged the PCMCIA-SCSI card for a different
>> maker's
>> card, tried a different hard drive (converting the store's new
>> merchandise
>> into used merchandise), visited the maker of the PC, visited the maker of
>> the second PCMCIA-SCSI card and the first hard drive, experimented with
>> other PCs, experimented with other language versions of Windows 95,
>> experimented with the original retail upgrade release of Windows 95, etc.
>> The results were always the same. I could write backups of some files
>> onto
>> the external hard drive, then write backups of other files, and the first
>> set would turn into garbage. After several months and expenditures on
>> train
>> fares exceeding the value of Windows 95, I acquired enough experience to
>> reproduce the problem in 10 minutes, but no solution.
>>
>> Microsoft's web site had two downloads which could fix bugs in the way
>> the
>> original release of Windows 95 handled internal IDE hard drives. There
>> were
>> no such fixes for OSR2, and no fixes at all for handling external SCSI
>> hard
>> drives.
>>
>> Eventually I tried another experiment. The maker of the PCMCIA-SCSI card
>> had
>> provided drivers and utilities for Windows 95, Windows NT4, Windows 3.1,
>> and
>> MS-DOS. I figured out how to install MS-DOS drivers in the CONFIG.SYS and
>> AUTOEXEC.BAT files of Windows 95, and run the maker's utilities to
>> partition
>> the SCSI drive. After a reboot (equivalent to the reboot ordinarily
>> needed
>> after FDISK), Windows 95's format operation still worked. After that,
>> backups worked. Files did not get lost.
>>
>> Since my personally owned copy of Windows 95 OSR2 was a preinstalled OEM
>> product, naturally Microsoft asserted that the PC maker was responsible
>> for
>> fixing bugs in Windows 95. Naturally the maker did not agree. I was still
>> left with a garbage OS, wasted months, and wasted expenses, though
>> fortunately I had found a workaround.
>>
>> Windows 98's FDISK command was different. It worked (for creation of
>> partitions and logical drives). Then Windows 98 SE came along and its
>> FDISK
>> command was broken differently, but when it worked, it wokred (for
>> creation
>> of partitions and logical drives). Microsoft announced a download to fix
>> Windows 98 SE's FDISK, but I couldn't get it, so I asked Microsoft. This
>> time Microsoft actually let me communicate with a support manager. But
>> the
>> support manager also refused to let me get the fix for Windows 98 SE's
>> FDISK. Microsoft's support manager further denied that Windows 95
>> operated
>> the way it did.
>>
>> Windows NT4's disk manager seemed to work, and later Windows 2000's disk
>> manager seemed to work.
>>
>> So anyway, for 11 years I was blaming Windows 95's FDISK command. As
>> well, I
>> blamed Microsoft's lack of testing, lack of appropriate process to submit
>> a
>> bug report, and false responses when I finally had the opportunity to
>> report
>> the bug.
>>
>> Recently I had occasion to reproduce the problem again and see what
>> Windows
>> 95 really did. The results were surprising. The same old repro case
>> operated
>> the same as always. But it turned out that FDISK was not 100% to blame.
>>
>> The repro case uses the procedure recommended by Microsoft. In Windows
>> 95's
>> device manager, enable INT13 on the external hard drive. Reboot. Run
>> FDISK.
>> Reboot. Format the logical drives. Sometimes another reboot is necessary
>> before being able to write long filenames (an unrelated but documented
>> Windows 95 bug). Datamax Driver - Video Results. The second and third logical drives appear to overlap.
>> Writing files to the third logical drive destroys the contents of the
>> second
>> logical drive. Running scandisk on either of them further destroys the
>> other. The first logical drive appears safe, but now I know that was just
>> an
>> accident.
>>
>> This time I did further experiments. Run FDISK. Reboot to Windows 2000.
>> Use
>> Windows 2000 to do the formatting. The result works! Or use Windows 2000
>> to
>> create the extended partition and create the logical drives but do not
>> format the logical drives, then reboot to Windows 95, and use Windows 95
>> to
>> do the formatting. The result works! So the problem is not only Windows
>> 95
>> FDISK. The problem is the combination of Windows 95 FDISK and Windows
>> 95's
>> format utility.
>>
>> Obviously Windows 95 is long gone and will never be fixed now. I still
>> blame
>> Microsoft's lack of testing, lack of appropriate process to submit a bug<

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