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Old November 26th 04, 08:28 AM
Brillo
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Default 160 GB HD in win98SE

Hi. I'm considering a new larger HD, and I understand Win98 has
issues with HD's as large as what I need. I'm hoping to buy a 160 GB
drive. Some of what I've read says I'll only be able to use 137 GB of
it, right? So is that a limit for the drive, or can I get around it
by partitioning the drive into a few smaller volumes? Any advice on
this would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Old November 26th 04, 04:24 PM
Bert Kinney
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Hi Brillo,

If the system BIOS supports the large disk size and the latest
version of fdisk is used then yes the drive can be partitioned
below into partitions no larger than 127GB's.

That being said, just because it can be done doesn't mean there
may not be problems. There has been reports of total data loss
with drives over 137GB's in a Win98 machine.

The best advise would be to install a drive under 137GB's.

Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q263044


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"Brillo" wrote
Hi. I'm considering a new larger HD, and I understand Win98 has
issues with HD's as large as what I need. I'm hoping to buy a 160 GB
drive. Some of what I've read says I'll only be able to use 137 GB of
it, right? So is that a limit for the drive, or can I get around it
by partitioning the drive into a few smaller volumes? Any advice on
this would be appreciated. Thanks.



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Old November 27th 04, 06:58 AM
jt3
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"Brillo" wrote in message
om...
Hi. I'm considering a new larger HD, and I understand Win98 has
issues with HD's as large as what I need. I'm hoping to buy a 160 GB
drive. Some of what I've read says I'll only be able to use 137 GB of
it, right? So is that a limit for the drive, or can I get around it
by partitioning the drive into a few smaller volumes? Any advice on
this would be appreciated. Thanks.


There have been many reports of success using a PCI adapter card which will
give you the UDMA100/133 functionality, as well as providing 48-bit LBA
capability if your machine BIOS doesn't support disks larger than 127/137G.

My daughter installed one on her Dell Dimension XPS 450 which works just
fine. It was a Promise, a model TX100, if my memory doesn't betray me, and
it only cost ~$30.

It all depends on how badly you want the extra disk space. The chances are
that you will need to use such a controller card if you want the larger
disk.

You will then need to partition the total space such that no partition
exceeds W98's limit of 127G (assuming you are updated fully).

With the card comes software that you install that enables W98 to use the
larger disk, though it won't change the restriction on partition size.

See http://www.48bitlba.com.

HTH, Joe


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Old December 24th 04, 06:23 AM
TPC
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I have already purchased a Maxtor 160 Gig external drive, that I had hoped to
use on three different PC's in our house.(not networked). One is W98SE, one
is ME the other is W2000. I have been reading up before even trying it.
I understand I would keep it as it came - FAT32.
Would I partition it using W2000 into the sizes acceptable to W98, or should
I download the FDISK fix and partition it using W98?
If I did nothing, what would W98 do?
My W98 Motherboard is an ASUS P2B S(PC100), with Pentium 2.

Thanks for any help


"jt3" wrote:


"Brillo" wrote in message
om...
Hi. I'm considering a new larger HD, and I understand Win98 has
issues with HD's as large as what I need. I'm hoping to buy a 160 GB
drive. Some of what I've read says I'll only be able to use 137 GB of
it, right? So is that a limit for the drive, or can I get around it
by partitioning the drive into a few smaller volumes? Any advice on
this would be appreciated. Thanks.


There have been many reports of success using a PCI adapter card which will
give you the UDMA100/133 functionality, as well as providing 48-bit LBA
capability if your machine BIOS doesn't support disks larger than 127/137G.

My daughter installed one on her Dell Dimension XPS 450 which works just
fine. It was a Promise, a model TX100, if my memory doesn't betray me, and
it only cost ~$30.

It all depends on how badly you want the extra disk space. The chances are
that you will need to use such a controller card if you want the larger
disk.

You will then need to partition the total space such that no partition
exceeds W98's limit of 127G (assuming you are updated fully).

With the card comes software that you install that enables W98 to use the
larger disk, though it won't change the restriction on partition size.

See http://www.48bitlba.com.

HTH, Joe



 




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