"jerryko" wrote:

I want to purchase a 160GB HDD to use with a new ABIT NF7
v2 motherboard (supports LBA45). The motherboard will
support the 160GB HDD (No hardware limit on HDD). Will
WIN98SE support the HDD? I have read so much vague
information about different barriers in Win98SE concerning
large drives over 137GB, it's makeing my head spin. I can
partition the drive (I plan on it) as needed. What are
the limits of Win98se when it comes to HDD (partitions,
physical disk size etc...)

Thank you,

Jerry

If your hardwared (motherboard + BIOS) will support the drive then
there is no real problem.

However, FAT32 has a practical partition size limit of 128 binary
gigabytes (137 billion bytes) and drives larger than that need to be
split into two or more partitions so that no single partition is
larger than the limit.

And you may need to use an updated version of FDISK in order to create
partitions on hard drives larger than 64gb. See the following article
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 263044
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=263044


Good luck


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