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Can win98se support 120gb hdd??
Name: Bernard Date: June 18, 2004 at 07:10:38 Pacific OS: win98se CPU/Ram: p3-450/256mb
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My computer won't recognise or detect my 120GB 2mb ATA133 Hdd. Because i wanna to install win98se and winXP both os together ...Any method to settle the problem ....???
Name: Report_2 Date: June 18, 2004 at 07:29:57 Pacific
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Win98 can handle up to a 137Gb hard drive once you get past the 64Gb barrier but...see http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php for some excellent reading on that particular subject. Pay particular attention to the first paragraph.
Regards, Bryan
Response Number 2
Name: Sandor Date: June 18, 2004 at 08:04:42 Pacific
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In order to support 120 GB harddrive and WINDOWS 98, you must use FDISK and FORMAT from a WINDOWS ME boot disk; NOT WINDOWS 98 or even 98SE's boot disk. Download the Windows Me OEM boot disk from ..
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
execute it to a floppy and boot from it as usual. After FDISK and FORMAT you can load either 98 or XP.
Note that on the same URL (web page) you also have the Windows XP Setup Disk Sets.
Good luck, Sandor
Response Number 3
Name: mesich Date: June 18, 2004 at 08:06:31 Pacific
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Hi Bernard, Bryan, hello everyone
Another method is to partition and format the hard drive using a WinME Bootdisk
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Best Regards, Mesich
Response Number 4
Name: ham30 Date: June 18, 2004 at 09:03:08 Pacific
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Make sure that you create two partitions. You need to have a separate partition for each OS. Also,install Win98 first.
Response Number 5
Name: TopFarmer Date: June 18, 2004 at 11:05:31 Pacific
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HI all need clarification - do you mean in bios setup ? if so does it see the hdd but reports the wrong size ? check the hdd jumpers be sure its jumpered as master , slave , only hdd , cable select depending on other devices on same IDE cable and brand of hdd.
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