Win98 Disc Limits

I recall reading somewhere that Windows 98 (original verson) cannot be
installed on systems with large disk drive sizes. However, I cannot remember
where I read this, nor can I find the reference again.

I want to install Win98 on a dual boot PC along with XP Home.
That way I can run Office97 Pro on the 98 setup.

The PC uses SATA drives, each 80GB. The system partition is 30GB and the
smallest (non-system/non-bootable) partition is 4.55GB.

Can this be done?

Its a limitation of Win98/98SE/ME. They cannot store data beyond 127GB
without filesystem errors. The number of partitions is not a factor, it
covers the entire hard disk.
This is not related to windows disk tools, which is another problem related
to partition size, not hard disk capacity.

98 SATA is another factor.

"Gary D." wrote in message
...
I recall reading somewhere that Windows 98 (original verson) cannot be
installed on systems with large disk drive sizes. However, I cannot
remember
where I read this, nor can I find the reference again.

I want to install Win98 on a dual boot PC along with XP Home.
That way I can run Office97 Pro on the 98 setup.

The PC uses SATA drives, each 80GB. The system partition is 30GB and the
smallest (non-system/non-bootable) partition is 4.55GB.

Can this be done?

Windows 98 can have problems with disks larger than 128Gb, without special
drivers.

80Gb disks should not be a problem. But note that partition sizes can be an
issue. The figures you have quoted should not be a problem, provided the
partitions are FAT32.

AFAIK Office 97 Pro runs just fine under XP, but you could check in an XP
newsgroup.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Gary D." wrote in message
...
I recall reading somewhere that Windows 98 (original verson) cannot be
installed on systems with large disk drive sizes. However, I cannot
remember
where I read this, nor can I find the reference again.

I want to install Win98 on a dual boot PC along with XP Home.
That way I can run Office97 Pro on the 98 setup.

The PC uses SATA drives, each 80GB. The system partition is 30GB and the
smallest (non-system/non-bootable) partition is 4.55GB.

Can this be done?

Gary D. wrote:

I recall reading somewhere that Windows 98 (original verson) cannot be
installed on systems with large disk drive sizes. However, I cannot remember
where I read this, nor can I find the reference again.

I want to install Win98 on a dual boot PC along with XP Home.
That way I can run Office97 Pro on the 98 setup.

The PC uses SATA drives, each 80GB. The system partition is 30GB and the
smallest (non-system/non-bootable) partition is 4.55GB.

Can this be done?

First of all, Office 97 is compatibile with Windows XP and there is no
need to install Windows 98 just for that application. There are a
large number of people who use Office 97 with Windows XP.

You will need to create a FAT32 partition for Windows 98, and it will
not be able to access anything that you have on NTFS partitions.

And you will need to install a third party boot manager or to manually
configure the Boot.ini for the multiple boot.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm

Thanks for your advice everyone.