To verify whether you do have BIOS 48-bit LBA support, the best test, once the HDD is already hooked to the motherboard, is a little DOS program provided by RLoew for free, inside the demo version of his ESDI_506.PDR patch. Now, for a 1 TB drive, there is one more, much more serious problem, which is *not* related to partition sizes, but to the size of the whole disk, no matter how you partition it: 48-bit LBA support!ġ) If your machine has BIOS support for 48-bit LBA, DOS should be fine.Ģ) For Win 9x/ME, if the disk is PATA (aka IDE) you need either LLXX's or RLoew's ESDI_506.PDR patch, unless your chipset is Intel, for which the Intel Application Accelerator gets you covered.ģ) For Win 9x/ME, if the disk is SATA you need either VIA RAID driver, if your machine has a VIA chipset, or the manufacturer's driver, for the rare other chipsets that support SATA on Win 9x/MEĤ) Else, for Win 9x/ME, you need RLoew's SATA patch, for SATA.ĥ) For USB in Win 9x/ME you'll need NUSB33 plus MDGx's USB20DRV and some tweaking in addition. The size of the primary partition can be 250 GB or more, up to about 320 GB.Īs I said, the problem with partition sizes is related to apps, not the OS. If you use two or more Partitions then you can use up to 2TiB.īeyond 2TiB you will need my TBPLUS Package and may need another SATA to IDE adapter.īe aware that some Motherboards may choke on drives larger than 548GB. There is a bug in Windows 98SE that can cause problems if you create a single Partition larger than 1TiB. If you want to use SATA Drives without an Adapter you will need my SATA Patch. If you are using 500GB successfully then you are using either a third party driver or have a Patched Driver.
What is the max number of Gigs that 98SE can handle?īy Default Windows 98SE supports up to 137GB (128GiB) IDE Drives. I'm going for the SATA as they are MUCH cheaper than PATA's now,Īnd I can use it in my future Windows 7 "Ultimate Build". Hard drive, using a SATA Hard Drive To IDE On MoBo Adapter. I'm running out of room and want to get a bigger SATA
I'm currently using a Seagate 500GB 16MB Cache 7200.9 PATA in
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