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restrictions of win9x on hdd partitioning?

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First post, by noshutdown

Posted on 2017-09-22, 03:49

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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?

Reply 1 of 3, by Joey_sw

Posted on 2017-09-22, 04:48

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"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.

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Reply 2 of 3, by jesolo

Posted on 2017-09-22, 06:12

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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).

Reply 3 of 3, by collector

Posted on 2017-09-22, 14:44

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