First post, by EdmondDantes
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Basic context:
On my Win98 build, the hard drive went bad. So I just need to put in a new one. But all the hard drives I have are bigger than 137gb.
(I was going to use that patch... but it turns out the 137gb limit for my PC is also a BIOS limitation, not just the operating system. My motherboard is an Epox-8KTA+ and I was unable to find a BIOS patch to allow bigger hard drives).
So that's a bummer.... but I'm willing to eat it and just accept that whatever drive I have in there has space that isn't being used.
I've seen some posts claim that you need to resize the drive using a program like SeaTools though.
Question: Do I actually need to? Or will it be enough to just have two partitions that, altogether, never go above 137gb, and leave the rest of the space unallocated?
Thanks in advance.