I never went over 120 GB, but that size HDD is fully supported by Windows 98 SE out of the box. No hacked / modded drivers needed.

Why not use a 120 GB to install Windows, and then a larger NTFS drive for storage?

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Hey Fellow hw builders 😉

Im trying to make this work..

Intel Pentium 3 Build on Asus CUSL platform.
HDD controllers used onboard and a Sil3512 flashed for normal usage (reflashed the raid bios into pure sata)

i installed the unofficial last SP3.45 with ntfs support.

the bios on mb and controller detects the drive as it should, but i cant get it to show in windows.

the drive is a seagate 120gb.

I tried to partition and format as ntfs in my other pc, but it wont be seen in windows, even though if i go to control panel on win98 and use the sil app its there.

the fdisk ofc cant handle this size and shows wierd numbers but its being detected 😉

so the question is where i go from here, and if windows doesnt support hdd that large, then there is no workaround to make it use TB drives? 😉

Thanks for a great forum 😀

Jan retro builder of Denmark

9x doesn't support NTFS normally. If the unofficial SP3.45 adds NTFS support for 98SE, then the root of the problem should be located there.
I never used any unofficial SP for 98SE beyond version 2.0a and it didn't support NTFS (or I simply never tried it with it)

Won't it be possible to try FAT32 instead? If only to see if this will work?

And welcome aboard 😀

Thanks for your replys, i forgot to say im using a 8gb CF card for boot drive on the internal controller and the 120Gb is on the Sil3512 controller all by it self.

My idea was to use that for the games i wanna play.. and if possible a NTFS supported 2tb later on if thats useable with the NTFS support 😉

Jan

Heh

i got both cards working now Sil3114 and Sil3512 both have a max. with Paragons NTFS for windows.. 1.6TB can be used on a 4TB seagate hdd. did anyone get higher ?

Jan

ia2115 wrote:

Heh

did anyone get higher ?

Jan

I never bothered to try. I think the largest harddrive I typically ever used in 9x was something like 40GB or so?
The OS is less than 1gig so space isn't really much of a concern to me when using a 9x retro rig 😀

AFAIK to use HDDs over 2TB you need to use GPT (the old MBR won't cut it), so that is probably the theoretical maximum Windows 98 will ever be able to use.