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From: dizzy on 7 Mar 2010 06:50 Hi all! I just bought new WD passport elite HDD and need to use it on several PCs. One of them has Win 98 SE and cannot recognize my WD. Does anybody know if there any chance to solve this? Thanks in advance!
From: Arno on 7 Mar 2010 12:33 dizzy <dizzy.47gh8p(a)no.email.invalid> wrote: > Hi all! > I just bought new WD passport elite HDD and need to use it on several > PCs. > One of them has Win 98 SE and cannot recognize my WD. > Does anybody know if there any chance to solve this? Yes, get an OS that is less of a toy. Altrnatively put smaller FAT32 partitions on it. Win98 has a partition size limit of 137GB and, I think, a drive size limit of 500GB. You should still be able to use partitions below 137GB that are completely in the first 500GB of the drive. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
From: Franc Zabkar on 8 Mar 2010 00:36
On 7 Mar 2010 17:33:33 GMT, Arno <me(a)privacy.net> put finger to keyboard and composed: >dizzy <dizzy.47gh8p(a)no.email.invalid> wrote: > >> Hi all! >> I just bought new WD passport elite HDD and need to use it on several >> PCs. >> One of them has Win 98 SE and cannot recognize my WD. >> Does anybody know if there any chance to solve this? > >Yes, get an OS that is less of a toy. Altrnatively put smaller >FAT32 partitions on it. Win98 has a partition size limit of >137GB and, I think, a drive size limit of 500GB. You should >still be able to use partitions below 137GB that are completely >in the first 500GB of the drive. > >Arno The 28-bit LBA limit only applies to internal drives that use the standard ESDI_506.pdr driver. There are hacks and other workarounds, including a 48-bit LBA capable driver for certain Intel chipsets. External drives are accessed via a mass storage driver that does not suffer from the 28-bit LBA limit. I have accessed a 320GB drive in a USB enclosure using the following drivers: http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php Be aware that an old Win98SE box may be limited to USB 1.1 ports, in which case data transfers will proceed at around 1 MB/s instead of the usual 20 MB/s for USb 2.0. - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |