February 14th 07, 03:01 PM
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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
Every partitions are readable.
ssome schrieb:
i'm running 3 HDs on two machines now, both with win 98SE
i run the 3rd HD on the secondary cable along with the CDR; slower this
way, but extra mem is worth it. use it for storage and not interactive
apps.
the big question is: after partitioning the 250 into, hopefully, 2 ea 125's
will both partitions work in win 98 SE or will only the first partition work
and the remaining part of the new HD go to waste until i install Vista?
Win is installed on a sep drive, C: drive, the 80GB.
ssome
"T-Online" wrote in message
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$80 is a normal price for it. The Hd's are all IDE? If so,you can
install the new Hd just,if you have an additional Hd-controller or you
have a S-ata slot,but then you must buy a S-ata HD instead of an IDE Hd.
Reason: You can install not more than two HD's on an IDE slot.
ssome schrieb:
i just went online shopping for a 250 GB WD HD. most places it was
about
$80, but WALMART charged $137! Tiger Direct had it for $80 with a $20
rebate.
i will keep my 80GB HD in C: with win98SE already on it and place the
new HD
fdisked into 2 partitions on D and E of 125GB each. should work. i'll
have
another 40 GB HD on F:
ssome
"T-Online" wrote in message
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On the first Partition runs Win98 Se. Because Win98 Se not runs on the
second Partition (not bootable),I have insalled WinXP Pro.
ssome schrieb:
i now have the new fdisk, maybe that will work.
the orig fdisk didn't work on an new WD 80 on a new P5, 2.6 MHz machine
until i dwnlded the WD util from their site.
When you partitioned the 250 in half, were both partitions then viable
HDs
with win 98SE?
ssome
"T-Online" wrote in message
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I've tested it. On my 250 GB drive and my 80 GB drive Fdisk runs. I
wonder why it runs not at your system.
ssome schrieb:
So partitioning a big drive and assigning it to D and E (and F) would
be
fine
with win 98 SE on another C: drive. If the new drive was the only
drive
then win would have to be installed on the first partition, to recap.
it would seem wrong to get a big (200+ GB) drive and only use the
first
120
GB of it and let the rest go unused as suggested by the above msgs.
An interesting point here. i bought a new P5, 2.6 GHz machine and
win
98SE
would not let the old fdisk work on the new drive. i had to go to
the
WD HD
site and get 2 utils that let me fdisk and format the new 80 GB
drive.
One
was a DOS file if there wasn't win 98 already in that machine and the
other
file was a win 98 file that would setup the new HD if win 98 was
already
installed. i hope other HD mfgrs also do this. i got a new fdisk
and
win
98Me defrag.
ssome
"T-Online" wrote in message
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You can use Partitions smaller 137 Gb! If you want to run Win98,you
must
install it on the partition at the beginning of the D iskspace.
ssome schrieb:
Where does it say that you can't partition a 240 GB drive into two
valid
120s?
a 360 into 3 ea 120s?
also, we use defrag from win 98 Me, are there other Me files we can
use
on
win 98SE?
ssome
"USR" wrote in message
news:VoadnVrfn7yN8O7YnZ2dnUVZ_sWdnZ2d@mag ma.ca...
Thanks for the links guys....
... so, I guess as long as I don't create more then one partition
and
make
it less then 127GBs in size, Win98SE should have no problems...in
theory
.... I'll post back once I get the drive.
"Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message
bl...
try rhis place too for information
http://www.48bitlba.com/
--
Jon Hildrum
www.hildrum.com
"Touch Base" wrote in message
. gbl...
"USR" wrote in message
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| Hello:
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| I know that there is a limitation in Win98SE with regard to
hard
drive
size
| greater then 120GB. My question is, if I put a 320GB hard
drive
in
an
SE
| box but only create a partition of 120GB or less, will I still
run
into
| problems?
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| TIA
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some information;
http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php
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