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Old October 15th 17, 10:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Confusing Hard Drive jumpers (PATA or IDE)

On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 18:08:04 GMT, Donald G. Davis
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Strange enough, since this drive is giving me grief, I grabbed a 160gb
drive, and had it connected and partitioned in minutes. I really did not
think that would work, because I was told that Win98 can not use any
drive larger than 120gb. The partitions add up to 131gb after I
formatted them. So, apparently there is some wasted space, but that
drive works fine.


Win98 doesn't handle *partitions* larger than 128 GB. If you keep
partitions smaller than that--formatted as FAT16 and/or FAT32--Win98 will
work with larger drives. I have a 500 GB IDE drive partitioned in that
manner, and it works quite well under Win98.

--Donald Davis


In that case, I'm good. I always make at least 3 partitions on all
larger drives. I split that one into roughly 40-35-25 %.
And all along I thought I was limited to my two 120gb drives. I do
wonder if the bios on this 17 year old computer could handle a 500gb
drive though???