"J. P. Gilliver" wrote in message
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"ssome" wrote in message
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For Windows 98SE and ME, you need a PCI controller card to use an EIDE
hard
drive larger than 137GB without risking data corruption. The drivers for
the
controller card enable large drive support in the operating system,
while
the card itself provides the hardware support needed for the PC to
recognize
the full drive capacity.

Interesting, thanks.

WD Lifeguard s/w and Fdisk only let me create a partition of 137 GB max.
the rest of the HD goes to waste. screwed by the mfgrs again.
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(I am now wondering: is the 128G [137 if you're a drive mfr.] limit in
older
OSs the reason there are still quite a few _new_ 40 and 80 G drives on the
market?)



....and that 30% of all computers still run win 98 SE because it is fine for
them since they are not into Gaming or Video or have 20 users on the system
and that they can easily load it into their other machine and can clean
reload and can add h/w and s/w to them without having to ask MSoft for
permission.

i bought another 512 mb of RAM (for 1 GB now) changed the system.ini file
$25
and bought a Sabrent HD cntrlr PCI card $20 that i hope will see the whole
250 GB HD and allow me to partition it into 2 ea 125GB drives that will then
be used by win 98 SE. i got the newer fdisk file. this will allow me to
add up to 4 more HD type devices in addition to the 3 HD and one CDR i have
now. Hope 120 GB drives drop in price fast.