1. Windows 98 (and DOS 7.1) will work with partitions of <128 GB. Where are you getting 32 GB from? I believe that was a limit of Windows 95. Actually, Windows 98 will recognize even larger partitions (>128 GB) but will not work correctly and corrupt data without patching.

2. Specifically what games are you worried about not working with the CD drive set to D:? If you don't have anything in mind, I wouldn't worry about it. It must be incredibly rare - I've never encountered it or heard of any specific cases (just encountered many people worried about it over the years...). I don't doubt that there's some game out there with that requirement, but I think it's better to deal with it as it arises rather than greatly inconvenience yourself by never using multiple partitions (!).

I encountered plenty of things that would get unhappy if the CD-ROM changed drive letters after the program was installed, but never anything that specifically required that it be drive D: and absolutely nothing else. You'd have to be pretty dense to write something needing that; many of the programmers likely had a second partition or second hard drive anyway.

jh80 wrote on Yesterday, 23:07:

1. Windows 98 (and DOS 7.1) will work with partitions of <128 GB. Where are you getting 32 GB from? I believe that was a limit of Windows 95. Actually, Windows 98 will recognize even larger partitions (>128 GB) but will not work correctly and corrupt data without patching.

2. Specifically what games are you worried about not working with the CD drive set to D:? If you don't have anything in mind, I wouldn't worry about it. It must be incredibly rare - I've never encountered it or heard of any specific cases (just encountered many people worried about it over the years...). I don't doubt that there's some game out there with that requirement, but I think it's better to deal with it as it arises rather than greatly inconvenience yourself by never using multiple partitions (!).

I know, and that's the weird thing. I used to have a PC with Win98 and a 120GB hard drive, and it worked perfectly. It wasn't like that, but it had an Intel CPU. Now, with this configuration, it's giving me the problem. I don't want the IDE/SATA adapter or the SSD to be causing the problem.

jakethompson1 wrote on Yesterday, 23:12:

I encountered plenty of things that would get unhappy if the CD-ROM changed drive letters after the program was installed, but never anything that specifically required that it be drive D: and absolutely nothing else. You'd have to be pretty dense to write something needing that; many of the programmers likely had a second partition or second hard drive anyway.

A game whose name I don't remember but which I happened to try not long ago, required the drive on d, however it is not a big problem, at most I will use a second system hard disk with an single partition.

And I'm talking about an original game that I own but I have too many to remember, when that happens I'll ask for help or do as I wrote before