Ouch. I know prug&Prae is better, but is it going to be totally left to
that?

Some sort of disconnect here because my MOBO is compliant to multiple OS,
including the old ones.
It has SATA on board.
It is a SATA HDD.

Almost sounds like, if OS was not designed specifically with that in mind,
fagetaboutit.
And even if it was, if it don't work, we might fix it.
Or wait till next OS.
Or wait till 128bit.
Or gig-a-bit. You know what it is to be gigged-a-bit? ;-)

Norman

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Advice?

Basically the same as before. Modern hardware isn't designed for use with
Win 9x operating systems such as Win Me. Operating system such as Win Me
were not designed for hardware produced since 2000. If you insist on
trying then be prepared for problems and resolving them yourself.
--
Mike Maltby



Norman wrote:

yep, finally got it installed, BUT!

I boot into windows. PATA is three partitions. SATA is one, newly
formatted with SG tools. I show 2 of the SATA in Explorer. It grabbed
D: and G:
Looks OK in device manager, and drive at G shown there. (no
duplicates or anything related to D), except that the properties page
is for a CD/DVD. It has auto-insert available. And removable checked.
The G, in explorer, shows up as a removable.

Changing that, or removing drive, from device manager causes system
to lock during restart. Reset causes it to reinstall with those
defaults.
Except for auto-insert which seems changable.

An aside, maybe related, system has refused to do proper "shut down",
noticed maybe day after clean install. I had not pursued that, but
was not choosing shut down except on rare occaisons.
Everything else seems to be working fine, including sleep, if I shut
down Multpass server. Will pop out of sleep first time, with Multipass
initialization error, but it still works. Maybe order of sequence and
it gets restarted, however after the first sleep cycle it will stop
coming out of sleep. Solution, after getting error message, manually
shut down server and restart as necessary.

I found at SG site where they seem to abandon their tools when
installing 9x to SATA, or adding SATA for storage. The latter calls
for fdisk once into windows. No hint on what partitioning to do.

Looking for advice to overcome?

Advice on fdisk, maybe set up without primary partition?
Setting with extended/logical only, will that create other problems?
Or limitations?
Are there tools such as PartMagic that will work with disks having no
primary?


I was considering doing similar to a USB HDD that if plugged during
boot also creates a "letter mash". I have been on hold for a long
time with that idea because drive was already loaded with data. Slow
transfer to clear it. Thought of using PM7 I had on deck, but
apparently didn't solve problem, maybe limited to PM7 & USB HDD's.
Now have PM8 on deck. Was loaded before meltdown of MOBO swap, add
drives issue. I didn't like the way it was resizing partitions, that
is not actually doing it but creating hidden folders that it showed
as increases and decreases of partitions. And became leery that
making, creating, hiding, etc. primary partitions was of the same
type of voodoo.
Does PM8 or any other utility do it in a manner analogous to fdisk?
(question because with commercial and free utilities claiming better,
why is fdisk still the blood of HDD setup?)

Norman