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OT: large hard drives and W98SE

SS

OT: large hard drives and W98SE

by SS » Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:21:51

Well, that's encouraging.  I called Western Digital the other day and the
best their tech guy could manage was something along the lines of, "yeah, it
should probably work fine."  I was hoping for something a bit more
definitive from the drive manufacturer.  If and when I give this a try, I'll
report back.

Thanks,
itazura

Larr

OT: large hard drives and W98SE

by Larr » Mon, 24 Nov 2003 04:43:33

Yes, your current contoller is limited to the once-standard 28-bit LBA.

-Larry




> > The only problem I know of with large drives is that FDISK does not
"see"
> > the full drive if its bigger than 60G. To solve it you need to D/L an
> > updated FDISK from Microsot.com (search the knowledge base there).

> Gee, that's funny.  My W98 FDISK formatted by new 160gb drive at 137gb's.
> Only reason it stopped at 137, as explained in the manual that came with
the
> drive, had to do with the fact that I have an older PCI card (ATI/66) and
> nothing but ATI/100's and above can read past 137gb's.

Eldre

OT: large hard drives and W98SE

by Eldre » Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:53:44



>My apologies for sneaking in a non-simming question.  I'd like to add a
>250GB Western Digital hard drive to my system but I understand that there
>are obstactles to accessing drives over 137GB.  I bought a Promise PCI EIDE
>controller card which should (I hope) handle the hardware side of things,
>but will my OS (Windows 98SE) have any problems, provided that the drive is
>hooked up through the Promise controller?  Any other issues to beware of?
>(My MB is an ECS K7S5A with an Athlon 2000+ processor.)

I previously had 2 120GB Western Digital drives, both partitioned FAT32 under
Win98SE.  No special software needed.  When my main drive died in September, I
replaced it with a Maxtor 160GB.  I had to use Maxtor's software to get it to
work on my system.  It's currently formatted as 120GB and 30GB partitions.  I'm
not sure if the limitation is my old BIOS(system is about 3-4 years old), or
the OS.

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