WinME max requirements

[proteanthread]

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?

 

[Mike M]

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
mike.maltby@gmail.com


proteanthread <rtdos@rtdos.com> 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?

 

[proteanthread]

On Feb 20, 4:37 pm, "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> 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?

 

[Mike M]

proteanthread <rtdos@rtdos.com> wrote:

> Am I to assume that these specs can also apply to Win98SE?

Yes.