See if your drives allow a jumper to be added to enable SATA 1 speeds. I'm using an IDE drive for Win98, so that won't work. The SATA drive is for XP and I've disabled it anyways during troubleshooting. I've found a fix in the File System Properties troubleshooting settings, been through them all …

kolderman wrote on 2020-05-24, 06:52: Better off using a ide/sata adapter. Compat mode always hit and miss for me. That's the annoying bit, I've had this hardware running Win98 without issues, albeit 15 years ago. Only thing that's changed since then is the drives (I was running an 80Gb IDE for 98 …

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get Windows 98 SE installed and working and hitting a few snags with IDE compatibility mode. I can get Win98 installed on the target drive no problem, but on first bootup I get an error: "Your multi-function device (Standard Dual PCI IDE Contoller) has some child devices …