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
...
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
...

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
. ..


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
.. .


try rhis place too for information

http://www.48bitlba.com/

--
Jon Hildrum

www.hildrum.com
"Touch Base" wrote in message
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"USR" wrote in message
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| Hello:
|
| 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?
|
| TIA
|

some information;
http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php