That is case only if you don't use LBA48 patched ESDI_506.PDR. 128GB+ isn't a problem with variety of PCI RAID cards or any other thing that do not use the built in IDE driver of windows.

derSammler wrote on 2020-01-12, 09:33:

tails wrote on 2019-10-17, 23:35:

I haven't been able to try any of the other suggestions yet but the mobo is an MSI 865PE Neo 2 and HDD is a 250GB split into in 3 partitions (111GB max) running on SATA.

Just for the record, since no one mentioned it so far: you can not use Win9x on hard disks larger than 128 GB! It doesn't matter if you make the partition smaller or not, it just won't work. Overflows will happen when Win9x addresses the sectors, randomly corrupting data. Get a smaller HDD if you want to install Win98.

Are you 100% positive on this? My 98SE machine has a 250gig drive (the 98se windows partition is 40gig) and has been running stable a long time.

Hah -- I ran into this problem recently, too -- with Win95 OSR2. I had to skip ScanDisk, then it hung early in installation (copying the setup files or something, I think). It turned out to be because I used BeOS to partition the disk. I didn't look into what the difference actually was, but dropping the partition table and re-creating it with fdisk solved it for me as well.

I seem to be getting this error because I have a 256GB sdcard in an IDE to SD adapter that apparently only supports LBA28 (up to 128GB). My BIOS supports LBA48, Windows 98SE is patched to support it, and my card (Samsung PRO Plus) all support it, but the adapter I got from Ebay does not.

tails wrote on 2019-10-18, 20:54:

Ok, seems to be solved. What I did was boot with the Windows XP install cd and set up my partitions there. Then restarted booting from the 98 cd and let the installer do it's thing with scandisk and formatting of each of the partitions. No errors found this time. So it seems old OS's just dont't like the way modern software formats drives. At least not with the hardware/software combo I've used this time.

EDIT: Still not quite solved maybe? Windows can't seem to find anything to boot from after the first restart during the install. May or may not be related. Still troubleshooting for now.

Thank you! This was the right answer for me.