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| 359861 | 2005-05-30 10:45:00 | Hi People Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8NS ultra-939 OS win98SE HDD SATA120gb seagate Have been looking at previouse threads about installing win 98SE onto a sata 120gb hdd. Some people were having issues with partitioning and formating. Will fdisk do the job of partitioning the whole disk into 5 or 6 areas? Will the normal win98 boot disk be able to then format whole disk prior to install of win98se os? Not planning on having any other hdd at this stage. Any help appreciated. |
rainmaker (7990) | ||
| 359862 | 2005-05-30 12:15:00 | I don't think there is any limitation (within reason) for fdisk. 98 (FAT32) has limitation in that it won't see more than 32GB of disk, there's no reason for this except MS decided that's what it would be. Not sure about SATA, I imagine it could be quite tricky on 98. Will depend on motherboard or added driver support for 98, of course. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 359863 | 2005-05-30 18:26:00 | Why don't you get XP ? I think you eill have problems with win se. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 359864 | 2005-05-30 21:12:00 | I don't think there is any limitation (within reason) for fdisk. 98 (FAT32) has limitation in that it won't see more than 32GB of disk, there's no reason for this except MS decided that's what it would be. Not sure about SATA, I imagine it could be quite tricky on 98. Will depend on motherboard or added driver support for 98, of course. Win98 will happily partition more than 32Gb. I had my 80Gb HDD on win98. I think you will be OK as your MB has support for sATA for Win9.x according to the website. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 359865 | 2005-05-31 01:41:00 | see Seagate Instructions (www.seagate.com) They explain capacity issues (www.seagate.com) too. You would be okay with your setup. |
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