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Old July 22nd 07, 01:04 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.win98.fat32,microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default Win-98 and large hard drives, custom cluster size (new information)


I have just installed win-98se on my Asrock test platform, on a new
500 gb hard drive. I used the switch that prevents ACPI installation,
and after all is said and done I have no yellow (!) showing up in
device manager. On-board lan and USB are functional. I haven't tried


sounds wonderful :-)

the on-board sound device yet, so I don't know if I'll get it to work
(I have it disabled in the bios). Windows hung during the first
startup attempt - bootlog.txt showed the problem was hsfloppy.pdr. I


strange that you needed the motherboard drivers to preventing
the windows floppy support to hang the system


Under System Properties, Performance tab, it says:
"Performance may be improved by enabling virtual memory"
In the Performance status list, virtual memory is indeed disabled.

In the Virtual Memory window, the button "Let windows manage my
virtual settings" radio button is selected.


if you set the settings yourself, making a permanent swapfile
do it still say that virtual memory is disabled?

someone had some similar problem after installing the servicepack
and fixed it by edited both Min/MaxFileCache [vcache] in system.ini
he did set them to 2048 (but that is only 2Mb but you could try
fiddle with it, there is some size recomendations at
http://www.thpc.info/ram/vcache98.html )

the error could allso be given if win386.swp is readonly

Neither windows scandisk and defrag run. They both complain about not


do scandisk/defrag even run on a LBA48 drive?
(I thought they killed any data after 137 GB, but I might be wrong)
There must be something better that one can replace them with

versions. Only issue so far is that the system doesn't shut down
properly (it goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the
upper left corner).


Hmm... have you tried a older version of the nvidia drivers
to se if it shut down corectly then?

The WD software requires me to select with OS I will be using. Even
when I tell it I want to create a FAT-32 partition, it still wants me
to specify the OS, and it lists Win-98 along with ME as different


aha.. western digital send a partitioning program with its disk...
And I guess they think the program is more "userfriendly" that way :-)
(and maybe it is for people that never heard of partitions
and formatting and different formats - and don't want to know)
otherwise you could use freedos fdisk I think

When booting into dos, it takes a few minutes to perform the first DIR
command (this was expected based on previous tests with 160 gb


why? or are there something I missunderstood here...

This is a great motherboard, either for exclusive win-98 use, or for
dual boot use. My test board is an older version of this motherboard
(only supports dual-core CPU's according to the box) but I have
several others (new-in-box) that are 4-core versions (quad-core


you have several motherboards just lying around there?
I'm a bit jealous ....

In theory I could perform a file-creation test and load this drive
with millions of files to see how 98 handles it.


just download lots of random songs and movies with dc++ or
something and make copys (and copys of the copys recursively
in a nice directory hierachy till the disk is 90% full ;-)
 




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