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First post, by greg2002tii

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So is Terabyte Plus the best goto for adding partitions to the unused disk space beyond 8GB on a Win98se machine ? And why doesn't 98se see more of the hard disk, which is 120GB. I had previously configured a dual boot 80GB using the same motherboard, an ASUS VX97 P1-MMX 233 and 128MB RAM, with DOS and Win2K. And now want to triple boot DOS, WIn98se, and Win2K on the already configured Win98se hard drive. I will reattach the 80GB disk to see the size of the Win2K partition.

Thanks for responding.

Greg

Reply 1 of 4, by Duffman

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Terrabyte plus is more for modern hardware. Like if your installing 98SE on a 500GB SSD and don't want data corruption.

It sounds like you've got a BIOS limitation of some sort, have you googled to see if there was an update?

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Reply 2 of 4, by greg2002tii

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Just to clarify, I first created an 80GB disk with both DOS and W2K, and W2k reports the NTFS partition at 74GB (where the DOS partition shows of course 2GB), so the BIOS is configured correctly.

I then swapped out the 80GB for a 120GB and installed W98se first, with large drives enabled, and I end up with only an 8GB C: drive.

I would like to have one disk, the 120GB, with all 3 of these partitions. To add DOS, I would have to create a partition beyond the W98 C: drive. DOS 6.2, 7.0, and 7.1 install programs will not add a DOS partition beyond the current FAT32 W98 partition. What software do I use to do that? Or is there an installation order of the O/Ss that will solve my issue?

Thanks again... Greg

Reply 3 of 4, by Dmetsys

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Sounds like a BIOS or FDISK issue to me. Have you tried using a FreeDOS boot disk to create the partitions? 98's FDISK has been known to be buggy. You can also try FDOS/FDisk - https://github.com/FDOS/fdisk to create the partitions using any DOS 3.3 disk and above.


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Reply 4 of 4, by chinny22

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Agree with everyone.

As you already used the 80GB drive I'm assuming you have the "fixed" bios that fixes the 32GB limit
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/asus-vx97#downloads

Even still 120GB is close to the 128GB limit of the updated BIOS, It would be worth double cheeking BIOS correctly identifies the drives compacity.

Secondly Win98 Fdisk has trouble with drives over 64GB
You can use a WinME boot disk to create the partitions or download an update for Win98 here (or one of the tools Dmetsys mentoned)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/win98/ … /263044usa8.exe

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