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Your missing the point Mr. 98 Guy !!!
Go back to twidilling with your fingers!
He (or she - I will just say He) was simply saying that he wants to create a
backup drive for Windows XP and format it as NTFS! Does that exceed your
knowledge? I have no knowledge AT ALL about hard drives, but I am sure that
we should ALL know the difference between FAT, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS!
Anon, your best option is to dual boot like you said. However, I suggest you
buy either an external HD, a black CD, or a tape and backup your private
information to it. After that, you can install Windows 98SE and make sure
that you always have your documents just in case all hell breaks loose when
installing Windows 98SE.
"98 Guy" wrote:
> Anon thought he was cute when he wrote:
>
> Subject: does size matter
>
> But instead it was just lame.
>
> > I have heard that 98se only recognises a certain size of HD drive
> > is this correct and what is the max size HD I can use.
>
> Then you should have made the subject of your post more like "what is
> max hard drive size for win-98 ?"
>
> To answer your question:
>
> If the hard drive is connected to a raid controller or a raid
> interface (but not necessarily used as part of a raid set) and if the
> controller appears in your windows device manager as a SCSI
> controller, then Windows 98 can handle drives of larger than 137 gb -
> and probably up to and including 500 gb (or 1 terrabyte). In this
> scenario, Windows 98 ->will not<- be using it's native protected-mode
> driver (ESDI_506.PDR) to access the drive.
>
> If Windows-98 is (or will be) using it's native protected-mode driver
> (ESDI_506.PDR) then you will be limited to 137 gb or smaller. This
> happens when you connect any IDE drive to a standard IDE controller
> port (non-raid) or if you connect an IDE or SATA drive to a raid
> controller but have the drive configured as a re-mapped IDE drive.
>
> There are third-party modified versions of ESDI_506.PDR which have
> fixed the 137 gb problem (to some extent) and therefore enable Win-98
> to be compatible with pretty much any drive currently in existance
> (which is 1 terrabyte if I'm not mistaken).
>
98 Guy, I suggest you pick up 'Windows 98 for Dummies'.
Go back to twidilling with your fingers!
He (or she - I will just say He) was simply saying that he wants to create a
backup drive for Windows XP and format it as NTFS! Does that exceed your
knowledge? I have no knowledge AT ALL about hard drives, but I am sure that
we should ALL know the difference between FAT, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS!
Anon, your best option is to dual boot like you said. However, I suggest you
buy either an external HD, a black CD, or a tape and backup your private
information to it. After that, you can install Windows 98SE and make sure
that you always have your documents just in case all hell breaks loose when
installing Windows 98SE.
"98 Guy" wrote:
> Anon thought he was cute when he wrote:
>
> Subject: does size matter
>
> But instead it was just lame.
>
> > I have heard that 98se only recognises a certain size of HD drive
> > is this correct and what is the max size HD I can use.
>
> Then you should have made the subject of your post more like "what is
> max hard drive size for win-98 ?"
>
> To answer your question:
>
> If the hard drive is connected to a raid controller or a raid
> interface (but not necessarily used as part of a raid set) and if the
> controller appears in your windows device manager as a SCSI
> controller, then Windows 98 can handle drives of larger than 137 gb -
> and probably up to and including 500 gb (or 1 terrabyte). In this
> scenario, Windows 98 ->will not<- be using it's native protected-mode
> driver (ESDI_506.PDR) to access the drive.
>
> If Windows-98 is (or will be) using it's native protected-mode driver
> (ESDI_506.PDR) then you will be limited to 137 gb or smaller. This
> happens when you connect any IDE drive to a standard IDE controller
> port (non-raid) or if you connect an IDE or SATA drive to a raid
> controller but have the drive configured as a re-mapped IDE drive.
>
> There are third-party modified versions of ESDI_506.PDR which have
> fixed the 137 gb problem (to some extent) and therefore enable Win-98
> to be compatible with pretty much any drive currently in existance
> (which is 1 terrabyte if I'm not mistaken).
>
98 Guy, I suggest you pick up 'Windows 98 for Dummies'.