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First post, by dinth

Posted on 2021-10-20, 20:10

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Hi. I have replaced the harddrive with an 128GB SSD in my Toshiba Libretto, but i've got a problem with partitioning the drive for Windows 98SE.
I have read various guides online, partitioned it on a newer computer, made an 8GB partition for the system and after that made a 1GB gap for the BIOS suspend - this all works fine.
The problem is with the next partition - first i have tried two partitions circa 60GB - one of them could not be accessed ("D:\ is not accessible. A device attached to the system is not functioning"), while the other one could be opened - but all the files with subdirectories had corrupted names.
Then someone advised me to try smaller partitions - i have tried three 32GB partitions - unfortunately now two of them are not accessible (D and F) while E seems to work fine.
According to the wikipedia and Phils computer labs website, Windows 98SE should be able to use 120GB partitions just fine. What am i doing wrong?

PS. The BIOS was updated to the latest version.

Reply 1 of 4, by matze79

Posted on 2021-10-20, 20:12

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Install Ontrack DM or Maxblast 😀

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Reply 2 of 4, by keenmaster486

Posted on 2021-10-20, 20:15

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Yeah, install the Maxtor MaxBlast EZ-DRIVE overlay. Works every time for me. Don't use the built-in utility to partition! Install it and partition after with FreeDOS FDISK.

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Reply 3 of 4, by dinth

Posted on 2021-10-20, 21:36

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Thanks for your tips and i will keep those apps as a last resort, but is there really no other way than using disk overlays?
This will bring another issue, as i can only copy date onto my laptop either by connecting the drive to my linux desktop or by using floppies and apparently those disk overlays will make disks unreadable on other systems. So far I was unsuccessful with connecting any Win98 supported PCMCIA WIFI adapters to my home wifi

Reply 4 of 4, by Horun

Posted on 2021-10-21, 02:24

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Huh ? Disk overlays do not make the HD unreadable on a different computer, you have to manually set the drive Parms same as your laptop BIOS has them set.
On a newer system that may not be possible but on any older 486/Pentium/Slot 1 it should be and BIOS cannot be set to "auto" because the DM or Maxblast translate the old BIOS C/H/S to what the drive actually is (like a LBA bios upgrade does)
Never had a problem in the past doing it BUT that was with real HD's and not CF and used another Pentium machine...

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