Win98 Question

zoro

Ok, it's been a while since I worked on this baby

What's the max h/d this can handle? I cant remember off the top of head... there's a 20gig one in it atm and I've been told to stick on another 120gig one, will it handle it?

DVD writer - I just really hope this piece of **** can take one these!

ColmOT [MSFT]

The max that a Win 98 machine can handle is around a 30Gb HD.

You'll need to partition your 120Gb disk in to smaller partitions for FAT32 to work with it.

DVD-RW should be OK depending on the drivers/apps that come with it

Capt'n Midnight

M$ keep saying FAT32 will do up to 2TB
But all the OS's so far will only setup a partition of up to 32GB

You can have more than one partition on a HDD
If you are still running 98 then your PC is older so you might have problems with the BIOS seeing certain size drivers remember the older limits of 512MB and LBA limit of 8.4GB - your HDD will be over the 60 or 80GB limit - can't remember which you hit next.

Ref's re 2TB in theory / 32GB in practice.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;154997
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/choosing_between_NTFS_FAT_and_FAT32.asp

Note: the NTFSDOS utility will allow you to read NTFS partitions > 32GB on a dual boot system - there is a utility to write to NTFS in win98 - but not so stable.

zoro

excellent thanks .... so if i can partition the 120 gig hd into for 30 gig drives, it'll read it fine?

Capt'n Midnight

If your BIOS can see the drive - if the HW don't see the HDD then the OS is snookered. - just depends on how old the machine/BIOS is.

A 533MHz AMD at home (can't remember which m/b it has) would not see a 120GB HDD till I flashed the BIOS. And then it kept crashing unless I disabled the cache - really weird - so I flashed it down again and the cache works again (but still limited in size of drives it sees)

zoro

ah poopie ... i think it's a pc from gateway, back in 98 possibly