Hey Guys, So I recently bought a new seagate 160gig hard drive to put in my machine. Currently it has 2 hard drives, and I have a dual boot system. 60gig HD ---> C: set as Master containing 98 13gig HD ---> D: set as Slave containing XP Both HD's are getting pretty full, so I bought the new Seagate 160gig hard drive and want to do this: old 60gig HD ---> C: set as Master containing 98 new 160gig HD ---> D: set as Slave containing XP Well I got the new HD installed, and I had some original trouble with it being formatted in NTFS..and we all know that 98 can not read NTFS so I had to reformat in Fat32. After doing it, and having my bios detect the 160 gig hard-drive, Windows 98 can finally read the new HD! =) As seen here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/A4orce84/Drives.jpg But my question is was talking to a friend and he said that Windows 98 can't handle anything bigger than 137 gigs, even if it is just another HD that win98 is NOT even on.....is this true? So as I load XP and other things on the 160gigs, when it get's bigger than 137 gigs it will possibly corrupt data on D: when Win98 tries writing to it ? Thanks again for all the help in advance! I also found a website talking about Windows 98 and bigger HD's, but it just somewhat confused me: http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm But if anyone can offer me any assistance on my questions, I would appreciate it. Thank you! --Asif

I suggest that you repartition the drive into two (or more) partitions. Reference www.48bitlba.com for information on drives over 137gb.

Yeah but that talks about using a HD that is over 137GB FOR Win98....I'm not using this HD for windows 98.. Win98 will b on the 60gb, I just want to know if I can still read/write/access the the 160gb HD from Win98 which resides on the 60gb HD...Thanks. --Asif

If you access the large drive from W98 that is using it. The easiest and safest way is to partition the large drive.

Anyone else have any coments/advice/opinions? Thanks. --Asif

Well, like everyone else said, the best thing to do is to REPARTITION it. Why is this a problem for you? You can use FDISK from MS-DOS mode to delete the Primary DOS partition for the 160 GB (BE SURE IT'S THE RIGHT DRIVE you are deleting) an then repartition it in half so it's something like 80 GB for both drives. Is there a particular reason you need every bit of that 160 GB in the same drive? Also, do you add files to that drive from the Win 98? If you do, you can just copy them over when you're using the XP HD, you can copy it over. NTFS recognizes FAT32, not the other way around you could just do that way by using NTFS for the 160 GB drive and not suffer this problem. Faris,