as i am going to use some ide ssd drives on my 386 and 486 rigs, i need to use third-party partition tools to do the 4k-alignment.
after i did the partitioning, only the first partition is recognized by windows98, so i must have violated some restrictions that exist for windows9x but not nt5 and later.
can someone tell me which rules shall i keep in mind when manually entering chs for windows9x partitions?
"partition(s) must start at the 1st sector of the cylinders/tracks"?
I believes there are more rules, but that what i could think of.
-fffuuu
Read up a bit more about primary, extended and logical partitions and, also the Master Boot Record (MBR).
This should help you understand the limitations a bit better.
In order for Windows to recognise the other partitions, it must be formatted with a file system that Windows will recognise (FAT or FAT32).
Ask old hardware related questions in Marvin. This forum is for old Windows games on modern systems. Marvin, the Paranoid Android
