First post, by data9791
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I'm converting an early 2000's Dell laptop into a Win98 gaming laptop and want to populate the unused USB slots with mini thumb drives to expand my game storage space.
Reply 1 of 7, by derSammler
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Yes.
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Reply 3 of 7, by derSammler
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wrote:There is no limit, I use the 256Gb USB flash drive even under MS-Dos session:
There is. Writing to any sector beyond the 128 GB border will cause a wrap-around and corrupt random data. The problem is that Win9x won't tell you. It will detect larger media just fine, but isn't able to correctly use them.
Reply 4 of 7, by bjwil1991
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That was my initial thought as well. Any storage device, whether internal fixed disk or removable storage, has a size limit up to 137GB (or 128GB) for Windows 9x. Windows NT 4.0 SP4 and later NT systems do not have limits.
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Reply 5 of 7, by MAZter
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Looks like the 137GB limit was broken over a decade ago, just don't use defrag and other maintenance services:
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Reply 6 of 7, by Srandista
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You have to patch it to add support for LBA48.
https://msfn.org/board/topic/129027-big-hdd-4 … a-thread-index/
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Reply 7 of 7, by bjwil1991
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Ah. Never knew that. Can that be used for Windows 95 as well, or not really?
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