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.
Yes.
There is no limit, I use the Samsung 256Gb BAR Plus USB 3.1 Titan Gray MUF-256BE4-AM flash drive even under MS-Dos session.
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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.
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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Looks like the 137GB limit was broken over a decade ago, just don't use defrag and other maintenance services:
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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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Ah. Never knew that. Can that be used for Windows 95 as well, or not really?
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