OT: Anyone have any spare hard drives?

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Thursday 19 July 2007 08:54, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 7/19/07, Neil Joseph Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com> wrote:
> > I'm looking for a 30-60GB hard drive to replace a failed drive in a Win98
> > box. Since Win98 doesn't like 64+GB drives ...
>
>   I can't be sure (it's been awhile since I had to deal with Win98 in
> any serious fashion), but I think it's just Win98's FDISK that gets
> confused after 64 GiB.  I think most of Win98 can handle up to 128
> GiB.

I read the same details when I ran into this problem before, on this very 
machine, just a few weeks ago actually.  But, I partitioned a larger drive in 
Knoppix and just couldn't get it going in Win98 still.  Perhaps the 
motherboard had some limitations too - I can't be sure, but it seemed plenty 
modern enough.

A <64GB drive just makes it easier.

-N