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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
Where does it say that you can't partition a 240 GB drive into two valid
120s? a 360 into 3 ea 120s? also, we use defrag from win 98 Me, are there other Me files we can use on win 98SE? ssome "USR" wrote in message ... Thanks for the links guys.... ... so, I guess as long as I don't create more then one partition and make it less then 127GBs in size, Win98SE should have no problems...in theory .... I'll post back once I get the drive. "Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message ... try rhis place too for information http://www.48bitlba.com/ -- Jon Hildrum www.hildrum.com "Touch Base" wrote in message ... "USR" wrote in message ... | Hello: | | I know that there is a limitation in Win98SE with regard to hard drive size | greater then 120GB. My question is, if I put a 320GB hard drive in an SE | box but only create a partition of 120GB or less, will I still run into | problems? | | TIA | some information; http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php |
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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
You can use Partitions smaller 137 Gb! If you want to run Win98,you must
install it on the partition at the beginning of the Disk space. ssome schrieb: Where does it say that you can't partition a 240 GB drive into two valid 120s? a 360 into 3 ea 120s? also, we use defrag from win 98 Me, are there other Me files we can use on win 98SE? ssome "USR" wrote in message ... Thanks for the links guys.... ... so, I guess as long as I don't create more then one partition and make it less then 127GBs in size, Win98SE should have no problems...in theory .... I'll post back once I get the drive. "Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message ... try rhis place too for information http://www.48bitlba.com/ -- Jon Hildrum www.hildrum.com "Touch Base" wrote in message ... "USR" wrote in message ... | Hello: | | I know that there is a limitation in Win98SE with regard to hard drive size | greater then 120GB. My question is, if I put a 320GB hard drive in an SE | box but only create a partition of 120GB or less, will I still run into | problems? | | TIA | some information; http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php |
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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
You can use Partitions smaller 137 Gb! If you want to run Win98,you must
install it on the partition at the beginning of the Disk space. ssome schrieb: Where does it say that you can't partition a 240 GB drive into two valid 120s? a 360 into 3 ea 120s? also, we use defrag from win 98 Me, are there other Me files we can use on win 98SE? ssome "USR" wrote in message ... Thanks for the links guys.... ... so, I guess as long as I don't create more then one partition and make it less then 127GBs in size, Win98SE should have no problems...in theory .... I'll post back once I get the drive. "Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message ... try rhis place too for information http://www.48bitlba.com/ -- Jon Hildrum www.hildrum.com "Touch Base" wrote in message ... "USR" wrote in message ... | Hello: | | I know that there is a limitation in Win98SE with regard to hard drive size | greater then 120GB. My question is, if I put a 320GB hard drive in an SE | box but only create a partition of 120GB or less, will I still run into | problems? | | TIA | some information; http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php |
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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
So partitioning a big drive and assigning it to D and E (and F) would be
fine with win 98 SE on another C: drive. If the new drive was the only drive then win would have to be installed on the first partition, to recap. it would seem wrong to get a big (200+ GB) drive and only use the first 120 GB of it and let the rest go unused as suggested by the above msgs. An interesting point here. i bought a new P5, 2.6 GHz machine and win 98SE would not let the old fdisk work on the new drive. i had to go to the WD HD site and get 2 utils that let me fdisk and format the new 80 GB drive. One was a DOS file if there wasn't win 98 already in that machine and the other file was a win 98 file that would setup the new HD if win 98 was already installed. i hope other HD mfgrs also do this. i got a new fdisk and win 98Me defrag. ssome "T-Online" wrote in message ... You can use Partitions smaller 137 Gb! If you want to run Win98,you must install it on the partition at the beginning of the D iskspace. ssome schrieb: Where does it say that you can't partition a 240 GB drive into two valid 120s? a 360 into 3 ea 120s? also, we use defrag from win 98 Me, are there other Me files we can use on win 98SE? ssome "USR" wrote in message ... Thanks for the links guys.... ... so, I guess as long as I don't create more then one partition and make it less then 127GBs in size, Win98SE should have no problems...in theory .... I'll post back once I get the drive. "Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message ... try rhis place too for information http://www.48bitlba.com/ -- Jon Hildrum www.hildrum.com "Touch Base" wrote in message ... "USR" wrote in message ... | Hello: | | I know that there is a limitation in Win98SE with regard to hard drive size | greater then 120GB. My question is, if I put a 320GB hard drive in an SE | box but only create a partition of 120GB or less, will I still run into | problems? | | TIA | some information; http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php |
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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
So partitioning a big drive and assigning it to D and E (and F) would be
fine with win 98 SE on another C: drive. If the new drive was the only drive then win would have to be installed on the first partition, to recap. it would seem wrong to get a big (200+ GB) drive and only use the first 120 GB of it and let the rest go unused as suggested by the above msgs. An interesting point here. i bought a new P5, 2.6 GHz machine and win 98SE would not let the old fdisk work on the new drive. i had to go to the WD HD site and get 2 utils that let me fdisk and format the new 80 GB drive. One was a DOS file if there wasn't win 98 already in that machine and the other file was a win 98 file that would setup the new HD if win 98 was already installed. i hope other HD mfgrs also do this. i got a new fdisk and win 98Me defrag. ssome "T-Online" wrote in message ... You can use Partitions smaller 137 Gb! If you want to run Win98,you must install it on the partition at the beginning of the D iskspace. ssome schrieb: Where does it say that you can't partition a 240 GB drive into two valid 120s? a 360 into 3 ea 120s? also, we use defrag from win 98 Me, are there other Me files we can use on win 98SE? ssome "USR" wrote in message ... Thanks for the links guys.... ... so, I guess as long as I don't create more then one partition and make it less then 127GBs in size, Win98SE should have no problems...in theory .... I'll post back once I get the drive. "Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message ... try rhis place too for information http://www.48bitlba.com/ -- Jon Hildrum www.hildrum.com "Touch Base" wrote in message ... "USR" wrote in message ... | Hello: | | I know that there is a limitation in Win98SE with regard to hard drive size | greater then 120GB. My question is, if I put a 320GB hard drive in an SE | box but only create a partition of 120GB or less, will I still run into | problems? | | TIA | some information; http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php |
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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
I've tested it. On my 250 GB drive and my 80 GB drive Fdisk runs. I
wonder why it runs not at your system. ssome schrieb: So partitioning a big drive and assigning it to D and E (and F) would be fine with win 98 SE on another C: drive. If the new drive was the only drive then win would have to be installed on the first partition, to recap. it would seem wrong to get a big (200+ GB) drive and only use the first 120 GB of it and let the rest go unused as suggested by the above msgs. An interesting point here. i bought a new P5, 2.6 GHz machine and win 98SE would not let the old fdisk work on the new drive. i had to go to the WD HD site and get 2 utils that let me fdisk and format the new 80 GB drive. One was a DOS file if there wasn't win 98 already in that machine and the other file was a win 98 file that would setup the new HD if win 98 was already installed. i hope other HD mfgrs also do this. i got a new fdisk and win 98Me defrag. ssome "T-Online" wrote in message ... You can use Partitions smaller 137 Gb! If you want to run Win98,you must install it on the partition at the beginning of the D iskspace. ssome schrieb: Where does it say that you can't partition a 240 GB drive into two valid 120s? a 360 into 3 ea 120s? also, we use defrag from win 98 Me, are there other Me files we can use on win 98SE? ssome "USR" wrote in message . .. Thanks for the links guys.... ... so, I guess as long as I don't create more then one partition and make it less then 127GBs in size, Win98SE should have no problems...in theory .... I'll post back once I get the drive. "Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message .. . try rhis place too for information http://www.48bitlba.com/ -- Jon Hildrum www.hildrum.com "Touch Base" wrote in message . .. "USR" wrote in message ... | Hello: | | I know that there is a limitation in Win98SE with regard to hard drive size | greater then 120GB. My question is, if I put a 320GB hard drive in an SE | box but only create a partition of 120GB or less, will I still run into | problems? | | TIA | some information; http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php |
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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
I've tested it. On my 250 GB drive and my 80 GB drive Fdisk runs. I
wonder why it runs not at your system. ssome schrieb: So partitioning a big drive and assigning it to D and E (and F) would be fine with win 98 SE on another C: drive. If the new drive was the only drive then win would have to be installed on the first partition, to recap. it would seem wrong to get a big (200+ GB) drive and only use the first 120 GB of it and let the rest go unused as suggested by the above msgs. An interesting point here. i bought a new P5, 2.6 GHz machine and win 98SE would not let the old fdisk work on the new drive. i had to go to the WD HD site and get 2 utils that let me fdisk and format the new 80 GB drive. One was a DOS file if there wasn't win 98 already in that machine and the other file was a win 98 file that would setup the new HD if win 98 was already installed. i hope other HD mfgrs also do this. i got a new fdisk and win 98Me defrag. ssome "T-Online" wrote in message ... You can use Partitions smaller 137 Gb! If you want to run Win98,you must install it on the partition at the beginning of the D iskspace. ssome schrieb: Where does it say that you can't partition a 240 GB drive into two valid 120s? a 360 into 3 ea 120s? also, we use defrag from win 98 Me, are there other Me files we can use on win 98SE? ssome "USR" wrote in message . .. Thanks for the links guys.... ... so, I guess as long as I don't create more then one partition and make it less then 127GBs in size, Win98SE should have no problems...in theory .... I'll post back once I get the drive. "Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message .. . try rhis place too for information http://www.48bitlba.com/ -- Jon Hildrum www.hildrum.com "Touch Base" wrote in message . .. "USR" wrote in message ... | Hello: | | I know that there is a limitation in Win98SE with regard to hard drive size | greater then 120GB. My question is, if I put a 320GB hard drive in an SE | box but only create a partition of 120GB or less, will I still run into | problems? | | TIA | some information; http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php |
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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
i now have the new fdisk, maybe that will work.
the orig fdisk didn't work on an new WD 80 on a new P5, 2.6 MHz machine until i dwnlded the WD util from their site. When you partitioned the 250 in half, were both partitions then viable HDs with win 98SE? ssome "T-Online" wrote in message ... I've tested it. On my 250 GB drive and my 80 GB drive Fdisk runs. I wonder why it runs not at your system. ssome schrieb: So partitioning a big drive and assigning it to D and E (and F) would be fine with win 98 SE on another C: drive. If the new drive was the only drive then win would have to be installed on the first partition, to recap. it would seem wrong to get a big (200+ GB) drive and only use the first 120 GB of it and let the rest go unused as suggested by the above msgs. An interesting point here. i bought a new P5, 2.6 GHz machine and win 98SE would not let the old fdisk work on the new drive. i had to go to the WD HD site and get 2 utils that let me fdisk and format the new 80 GB drive. One was a DOS file if there wasn't win 98 already in that machine and the other file was a win 98 file that would setup the new HD if win 98 was already installed. i hope other HD mfgrs also do this. i got a new fdisk and win 98Me defrag. ssome "T-Online" wrote in message ... You can use Partitions smaller 137 Gb! If you want to run Win98,you must install it on the partition at the beginning of the D iskspace. ssome schrieb: Where does it say that you can't partition a 240 GB drive into two valid 120s? a 360 into 3 ea 120s? also, we use defrag from win 98 Me, are there other Me files we can use on win 98SE? ssome "USR" wrote in message . .. Thanks for the links guys.... ... so, I guess as long as I don't create more then one partition and make it less then 127GBs in size, Win98SE should have no problems...in theory .... I'll post back once I get the drive. "Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message .. . try rhis place too for information http://www.48bitlba.com/ -- Jon Hildrum www.hildrum.com "Touch Base" wrote in message . .. "USR" wrote in message ... | Hello: | | I know that there is a limitation in Win98SE with regard to hard drive size | greater then 120GB. My question is, if I put a 320GB hard drive in an SE | box but only create a partition of 120GB or less, will I still run into | problems? | | TIA | some information; http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php |
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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
i now have the new fdisk, maybe that will work.
the orig fdisk didn't work on an new WD 80 on a new P5, 2.6 MHz machine until i dwnlded the WD util from their site. When you partitioned the 250 in half, were both partitions then viable HDs with win 98SE? ssome "T-Online" wrote in message ... I've tested it. On my 250 GB drive and my 80 GB drive Fdisk runs. I wonder why it runs not at your system. ssome schrieb: So partitioning a big drive and assigning it to D and E (and F) would be fine with win 98 SE on another C: drive. If the new drive was the only drive then win would have to be installed on the first partition, to recap. it would seem wrong to get a big (200+ GB) drive and only use the first 120 GB of it and let the rest go unused as suggested by the above msgs. An interesting point here. i bought a new P5, 2.6 GHz machine and win 98SE would not let the old fdisk work on the new drive. i had to go to the WD HD site and get 2 utils that let me fdisk and format the new 80 GB drive. One was a DOS file if there wasn't win 98 already in that machine and the other file was a win 98 file that would setup the new HD if win 98 was already installed. i hope other HD mfgrs also do this. i got a new fdisk and win 98Me defrag. ssome "T-Online" wrote in message ... You can use Partitions smaller 137 Gb! If you want to run Win98,you must install it on the partition at the beginning of the D iskspace. ssome schrieb: Where does it say that you can't partition a 240 GB drive into two valid 120s? a 360 into 3 ea 120s? also, we use defrag from win 98 Me, are there other Me files we can use on win 98SE? ssome "USR" wrote in message . .. Thanks for the links guys.... ... so, I guess as long as I don't create more then one partition and make it less then 127GBs in size, Win98SE should have no problems...in theory .... I'll post back once I get the drive. "Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message .. . try rhis place too for information http://www.48bitlba.com/ -- Jon Hildrum www.hildrum.com "Touch Base" wrote in message . .. "USR" wrote in message ... | Hello: | | I know that there is a limitation in Win98SE with regard to hard drive size | greater then 120GB. My question is, if I put a 320GB hard drive in an SE | box but only create a partition of 120GB or less, will I still run into | problems? | | TIA | some information; http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php |
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Hard drive larger then 120GB question
On the first Partition runs Win98 Se. Because Win98 Se not runs on the
second Partition (not bootable),I have insalled WinXP Pro. ssome schrieb: i now have the new fdisk, maybe that will work. the orig fdisk didn't work on an new WD 80 on a new P5, 2.6 MHz machine until i dwnlded the WD util from their site. When you partitioned the 250 in half, were both partitions then viable HDs with win 98SE? ssome "T-Online" wrote in message ... I've tested it. On my 250 GB drive and my 80 GB drive Fdisk runs. I wonder why it runs not at your system. ssome schrieb: So partitioning a big drive and assigning it to D and E (and F) would be fine with win 98 SE on another C: drive. If the new drive was the only drive then win would have to be installed on the first partition, to recap. it would seem wrong to get a big (200+ GB) drive and only use the first 120 GB of it and let the rest go unused as suggested by the above msgs. An interesting point here. i bought a new P5, 2.6 GHz machine and win 98SE would not let the old fdisk work on the new drive. i had to go to the WD HD site and get 2 utils that let me fdisk and format the new 80 GB drive. One was a DOS file if there wasn't win 98 already in that machine and the other file was a win 98 file that would setup the new HD if win 98 was already installed. i hope other HD mfgrs also do this. i got a new fdisk and win 98Me defrag. ssome "T-Online" wrote in message ... You can use Partitions smaller 137 Gb! If you want to run Win98,you must install it on the partition at the beginning of the D iskspace. ssome schrieb: Where does it say that you can't partition a 240 GB drive into two valid 120s? a 360 into 3 ea 120s? also, we use defrag from win 98 Me, are there other Me files we can use on win 98SE? ssome "USR" wrote in message a... Thanks for the links guys.... ... so, I guess as long as I don't create more then one partition and make it less then 127GBs in size, Win98SE should have no problems...in theory .... I'll post back once I get the drive. "Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message .. . try rhis place too for information http://www.48bitlba.com/ -- Jon Hildrum www.hildrum.com "Touch Base" wrote in message . .. "USR" wrote in message ... | Hello: | | I know that there is a limitation in Win98SE with regard to hard drive size | greater then 120GB. My question is, if I put a 320GB hard drive in an SE | box but only create a partition of 120GB or less, will I still run into | problems? | | TIA | some information; http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php |
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