re: Can I install Win98se on new system?
Sunday, December 31, 2006 at 1:34 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Pete
(110 messages posted)
Unless I read the docs incorrectly, the 127 g limitation would be inherent in w98's
S506 ide driver (has to do with the way the drive size is expressed in binary form).
If the driver can't find the drive because the drive is too large, it won't find
any partitions on it, so adjusting partition sizes won't help. Monkeying around with
the CHS values in the BIOS settings can make the drive "visible" but not necessarily
at its fully rated capacity. It would also make the drive unusable elsewhere until
you reset the CHS values, losing all the data on the drive (this is the short version
of the situation). I have a 189.9 g slave, and 98se right off the install CD recognizes
it OK with no upgrades applied (bios set to autodetect).
>Format.com on the Win98 boot disk won't recognise the NTFS drive
Format.com should format a partition no matter what file system is already on it;
the trick is to figure out the drive letter you wish to format so you don't trash
one you want to keep.
>RAM size. 98 is known to have problems with 512 Meg or more.
I have 768 mb memory, and the same 98se installation has no problems with it.
>DOS can see such hard drives via the BIOS whereas XP needs special drivers
Hmmm well, from what I've bee taught, after being started by the CMOS, the BIOS sets
the stage for and starts the OS. Then the OS is free do to what it wants with regard
to rearranging the props on the stage to suit its whims. I.e. the BIOS points 98se
in the right direction and tells it what to expect. Then it (the bios) steps out
of the way and 98se does its own thing, totally ignoring any bios setting it so chooses.
On Friday, December 29, 2006 at 3:05 am, shahram wrote:
>Hello
>Can anybody help me? Last night I tried to install windows 98se on my new computer
>but I had this message during installation (systems is trying to up grade some files
>….) and computer crashed and installation hadn’t continued, I formatted hard disk
>by windows boot up disk and tried again but result was the same, could be this problem
>because of new hardware? I installed Windows XP on this computer without any problem,
>my system is:
>CPU: Pentium 4- 3Gh- Bus 533, 1 MB cache
>MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5GD2-Intel 915P Chipset- HD Audio
>HARD DISK: Maxtor 160 GB SATA, 7200PRM
>RAM: DDR2 -512 Kingston
>PCI EXPRESS: Sony 6800 NVIDIA
>
>Can we say windows 98se isn’t compatible with new hardware? Is there any way to
install
>windows98se on this system? (I need win98se because I had a video capture card that
>just works with win98)
>Please help me if you know the answer?
>
>Regards
>Shahram
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