I don't see why not. However when it comes to data I would put more trust in modern computers. More reliable I guess.

If it's a 110gb+ drive, hell no

Nope. FAT32 & Windows 98's instability can be deadly to data.

leileilol wrote:

If it's a 110gb+ drive, hell no

😒 win98 limit is 120GB, what happens above 110GB?

I was thinking of getting two of those spinpoint pata 120GB

Writing past that mark leads to corruption of the file allocation table, and massive dataloss. If I was stuck with a drive that big in a 9x computer I would only partition up to 80gb just to be safe.

Ok, I can live with that, thanks 😀
And what about FAT32 + Win98 instability 😐

If that Win9x Machine is using a 3rd party sata controller for a large drive, its perfectly safe to store large amounts of data.
You won't have problems accessing it.
I have 4 large drives on a Promise Fasttrax S150 TX4 PCI raid controller and it has no problems accessing the data, nor has it ever corrupted it.
Under Windows ME

Now its a different story with on-board IDE, and large ATA\100\133 drives.
I would partition those into 80gb chunks.

How large?

Above 80gb for the IDE.
But if your talking about the promise controller, I Have 4 WD 500GB drives on it atm. There not in raid, and partitioned as single drives.
That machine dualboots ME\XP I use it for file storage. Its a 1.4ghz Tualatin. Most of the time its in XP mode but, when I switch it over to ME. I have no problems with it.
Sorry for edits grammer is bad tonight.

😀 I was talking about the promise controller. You can access 2TB on windowsME? Is this the same with win98? What does win9x does with NTFS?
I see new possibilities 😁

9x Ignores NTFS partitions.
They are individual Fat32 500 GB partitions, As I'm not using the raid controller in raid mode 🤣 .
Just as a standard Sata controller.
I dunno about 98se, I have never tried with a drive above 250gb on it, and that was an IDE ATA\133 Maxtor drive.
It had to be partitioned into chunks or it would corrupt things.

This particular Tualatin mobo that I use for filestorage does not like 98se, it has stability issues, but has little issue with ME go figure.

I think this is the way to go. Thank you so much for this piece of information.
I have some research to do now, bye 😁