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WinME max requirements
What is the maximum hard drive size WinME can handle without
partitioning? What's the maximum amount of memory that I can install in WinME? |
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WinME max requirements
Win Me has problems with drives larger than 137GB due to not supporting
48-bit LBA (which was only partially implemented in XP SP1 (Sept? 2002) and not fully until XP SP2 (August 2004). Win Me, like all Win 9x operating systems, can support and use up to 2GB of memory although there are a number of caveats and exceptions to that details of which are contained in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles with the first essential reading where more than 512MB of memory is installed. For more details see: MS KB 253912 - ""Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=253912). The reason is that allocating more than 512MB of RAM to vcache will exhaust all available upper memory addresses and thus prevent them being used for other purposes. This problem is easily fixed as follows: To limit vcache, open system.ini and add the lines [VCache] MaxFileCache=512000 Note that this will still mean that all memory is available to applications but is simply limiting the amount used as virtual cache memory. MS KB 296773 - "Computer May Not Hibernate with More Than 192 MB of Memory" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=296773). This makes reference to an updated file vmm.vxd. Unfortunately due to Win Me being out of support this file can no longer be obtained from Microsoft. MS KB 304943 - "Computer May Reboot Continuously with More Than 1.5 GB of RAM" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=304943). -- Mike Maltby proteanthread wrote: What is the maximum hard drive size WinME can handle without partitioning? What's the maximum amount of memory that I can install in WinME? |
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On Feb 20, 4:37 pm, "Mike M" wrote:
Win Me has problems with drives larger than 137GB due to not supporting 48-bit LBA (which was only partially implemented in XP SP1 (Sept? 2002) and not fully until XP SP2 (August 2004). Win Me, like all Win 9x operating systems, can support and use up to 2GB of memory although there are a number of caveats and exceptions to that details of which are contained in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles with the first essential reading where more than 512MB of memory is installed. Am I to assume that these specs can also apply to Win98SE? |
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proteanthread wrote:
Am I to assume that these specs can also apply to Win98SE? Yes. |
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