First post, by m3stang
Hello All,
Recently broke out my "retro" (maybe not by some standards on here) PC. I ordered two IDE SATA adapters from StarTech.com as they typically make good products in my experience. I installed a 120GB kingston SSD since I don't really have any IDE drives laying around anymore and they cost more shipped with unknown life span from ebay so I went this route. Got a 120GB as I know that is massive for the 90s anyway. The CD drive is also SATA as my IDE one died, and again did not want to spend money on shipping and old part that may break soon anyway.
The BIOS sees both drives fine. I am able to FDISK and format C: from a Windows 95 startup CD. I am trying to install Windows ME but it hits 2% and then says a serious disk error has occurred. Windows 95 installed just fine although I never did get to the desktop (I think the PC is too new maybe) although on an old IDE drive I did get it to the desktop like 2 years ago. I have not tried a WinME startup disk (dont have a PC that has a disk drive anymore these days to burn one) but could probably use a friends if the Win95 one is deemed too old for some reason. Also it only formarts 49GB of the full 120GB not sure why. I feel like the problem may be the way Win95 disk is formatting as far as Windows ME install is concerned but idk. I can't test it otherwise right now so turning to the community to see if its the startup disk or something else may be going on.
TYAN S1854 MoBo (IIRC)
Pentium 3 1Ghz
768 MB RAM
ATi Radeon 8600 XT AGP