Reply 20 of 24, by archsan
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wrote:Short test but everything points to the drive being fine, just somehow incompatible with the Win98 install routine. Might also h […]
wrote:The quick test or the long one?
Well if the drive checks out what are you going to do?
Short test but everything points to the drive being fine, just somehow incompatible with the Win98 install routine. Might also have something to do with the motherboard controller too in conjunction with drive.
If anything, I'll install with the 6gb, make a image of my partition then put it on the 80gb. Wow such a hassle, never had such a pain in my arse before.
Ultimately I thought I would just throw a bunch of my spare parts together and make a kick ass win98 (and ho hum XP) machine. Now it's turned into a freaking nightmare. 🤣 I do have a IBM 30gb I know Win98 installs good on it, and use the 80gb with it.
hey congrats on your troubleshooting. Btw is your copy of windows 98 first edition or SE?
edit: shouldn't matter though their limit is 137GB (without 48-bit LBA support). However, someone put this on wikipedia:
Note 1: Both Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE can have significant problems associated with hard drives that are over 32 Gigabytes (GB) in size. This issue only occurs with certain Phoenix BIOS settings. A software update has been made available to fix this shortcoming
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98#System_requirements
If that's the case, you might still be able to use that 80gig drive after updating the OS 😀