bigest Hard drive 2

[Robbie2]

Hi everyone,I hope Iam posting this right,my question is how big of hard drives can I install on my system,now I have a 120 gig master & a 80 gig slave...can i go biger like 2 250 gigs....I have windows 98 second edition,333proscerr.256 meg of ram.....


**Thanks Robbie2

 

[comtec17]

Sure if your BIOS and MB can support it.

 

[paparazi]

Not with Windows 98 you can't, you need XP with SP1 to recognise 250's and this is only if you motherboard will support such large disks (so you'll have to look on the motherboard manufactures website for possible motherboard/bios support)
The 333mhz CPU is also going to be a bit lame with XP, although it will run you really need a 500mhz+ to run smoothly but thats a side issue.
Time to upgrade?
Martin

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[comtec17]

I have an external Firewire/USB Maxtor 250GB attached to my Win98se machine with no issues.

 

[paparazi]

Sorry I should have said not without additional drivers, The main issue is the older motherboard and it's support for disks of this size.
I think I saw cdogg posting on something to do with drives of this size and OS support, maybe he is reading.
Thankfully we rarely have customers upgrading 333mhz machines in this way, they usually go the whole hog and upgrade across the board or buy new base units.
Martin


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[wolluf]

and of course you'll have to partition it, as max fat32 partition is c. 128 (or 137, depending on GB definition) GB.

 

[paparazi]

wolluf!
Thats what I've been racking my brain over, I knew there was a reason why large drives won't work with W98
(it got lost in the mists of time) lol it's maximum partition sizes of 137gb, obviously means you just can't have a single partition which is not much of a problem but one that operating systems equipt with NTFS don't suffer from.
Martin

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