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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Disks / File System / January 2004Can Win98se support a 200GB HD?
Hello does anyone know if win98se can support a 200GB HD? >-----Original Message----- >Hello does anyone know if win98se can support a 200GB HD? >. Windows 98 supports disk up to 2 terabytes (2048GB). Hi, The only problem you can meet during the formatting process is the 32GB barrier. This means that some BIOSES could see the disk you are formatting as a 32GB disk. For this reason if you are going to buy, installing and partioning an hard disk of 200GB you have to visit before the manufacturer site and search if there are any programs which allow you bypassing this limit and formatting your hard disk. Disk Manager is one of the above programs I mentioned. The only problem is related to the dimension of HDD and the version of the application (disk manager. The v.10.02 supports HDD up to 137GBs hdd. Verify on the manufacturer site i.e. maxtor, samsung if there are any of the above aplications. Best regards Kangarello >-----Original Message----- >Hello does anyone know if win98se can support a 200GB HD? >. >Hi, Windows 98 supports disk up to 2 terabytes (2048GB). The only problem you can meet during the formatting process is the 32GB barrier. This means that some BIOSES could see the disk you are formatting as a 32GB disk. For this reason if you are going to buy, installing and partioning an hard disk of 200GB you have to visit before the manufacturer site and search if there are any programs which allow you bypassing this limit and formatting regularly your hard disk. Disk Manager is one of the above programs I mentioned. The only problem is related to the dimension of the HDD and the version of the application (i.e. disk managerv.10.02 supports HDD up to 137GBs). Verify at the manufacturer Internet site (i.e. maxtor, samsung) if there are any of the above applications. Best regards Kangarello >-----Original Message----- >Hello does anyone know if win98se can support a 200GB HD? >. Hi, Windows 98 supports disk up to 2 terabytes (2048GB). The only problem you can meet during the formatting process is the 32GB barrier. This means that some BIOSES could see the disk you are formatting as a 32GB disk. For this reason if you are going to buy, installing and partioning an hard disk of 200GB you have to visit before the manufacturer site and search if there are any programs which allow you bypassing this limit and formatting regularly your hard disk. Disk Manager is one of the above programs I mentioned. The only problem is related to the dimension of the HDD and the version of the application (i.e. disk managerv.10.02 supports HDD up to 137GBs). Verify at the manufacturer Internet site (i.e. maxtor, samsung) if there are any of the above applications. Best regards Kangarello Its a Western Digital. and they have tools to do the formating but!!! i'm running a laptop trying to format the HD thru a Hard Drive Kit and the datallife tools they provide doenst read it as a drive from the USB Port. You need to consult the supplier of the kit to find out the exact requirements for hard drives that can be connected. But if it's not recognised at all then the problem likely has nothing to do with Windows or the drive size. Do you know that USB is working properly on this machine, and are you quite sure that the disk drivers for USB are properly installed? -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > Its a Western Digital. and they have tools to do the > formating but!!! i'm running a laptop trying to format the > HD thru a Hard Drive Kit and the datallife tools they > provide doenst read it as a drive from the USB Port. Yup, I have a 80GB and it works fine... its when i swap in the 200GB it doesnt recgonize all 200GB only 128GB >-----Original Message----- >You need to consult the supplier of the kit to find out the exact [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >. If you are saying the Windows sees the drive but sees it as a 120Gb drive then you might be running into a limitation with FDISK. Exactly where are you seeing this figure? How has the drive been partitioned, and did you use the latest version of FDISK? Windows cannot use partitions over 120Gb (which might have been your first question, except that you were referring to drives, not partitions). -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > Yup, I have a 80GB and it works fine... its when i swap > in the 200GB it doesnt recgonize all 200GB only 128GB This is on a Laptop so i can only see it inside windows (Win98se) so since I know its a 200GB I went over to my sisters computer a Desktop and pluged the HD in there internally and used the disk that came with the HD and formatted it with Western Digitals Life Guard Data Tools it was VERY FAST... didnt seem like it formatted only wrote the table of contents or somthing so then it worked. It was able to see 186GB so I unpluged it pluged it back into my External HD Kit and pluged it via USB to my sisters computer WInXP and it worked fine. then when i take it to my laptop it did it again. says it was a unformatted drive and asked if i wanted to format it and only allowed me to format 131,000MB worth of it. But it was reading/working fine on my sisters computer, internally and externally. SO this makes me thing that either that formatting made it in NTFS and Win98se is on FAT32 so it doesnt read or my Bios cant handle it. I cant find any info on my bios... still looking tho. its a Toshiba 2595xDVD Running ACPI Flash BIOS version 8.20. THANKS for helping Jeff, Eric >-----Original Message----- >If you are saying the Windows sees the drive but sees it as a 120Gb drive [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >. So it now appears that Windows sees the drive and can format it as a 130Gb drive. I doubt that your BIOS is involved with a disk connected by USB. Windows will not properly handle partitions over 127Gb. If the drive has been created with a partition larger than this then you need to re-do the partitioning but keep each partition under about 120Gb. A partition that size is too large to be practical, in any case, and will waste a lot of space. A drive should always be formatted on the system it is going to be used with. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > This is on a Laptop so i can only see it inside windows > (Win98se) so since I know its a 200GB I went over to my [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > find any info on my bios... still looking tho. its a > Toshiba 2595xDVD Running ACPI Flash BIOS version 8.20. Ya I guess that will be the best way to go. Suggestion on how to format the HD into two 100GB Partitions under Win98se FAT32 via USB? (since this is a laptop) Thanks, Eric >-----Original Message----- >So it now appears that Windows sees the drive and can format it as a 130Gb [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >Jeff Richards >MS MVP W95/W98 You can't use format to change the partitioning. The partitioning must be set up before attempting to format. Use the partitioning software provided by the USB device manufacturer. This should be available at their www site. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > Ya I guess that will be the best way to go. Suggestion on > how to format the HD into two 100GB Partitions under > Win98se FAT32 via USB? (since this is a laptop) Glad to hear that you got it sorted out. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 >-----Original Message----- >Hello does anyone know if win98se can support a 200GB HD? >. >The updated FDISK from MS supposed to be able to do it, however after downloading and opening it, now I can not select other drives besides just the one (1) presented. I have an external drive that I like to partition but now I am stuck because of the above problem. So it appears MS fixed one problem but creates another one. This is all I can share with you. Whether or not FDISK will be able to use an external drive depends on how the drive is connected, and specifically on how the drivers for supporting the drive are written. If your drivers do not allow FDISK to see the drive then that may be because the way it is connected (eg, USB) means that it is quite difficult to allow FDISK to see it. In that case, the supplier will provide a partitioning program. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > >-----Original Message----- > >Hello does anyone know if win98se can support a 200GB HD? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > So it appears MS fixed one problem but creates another one. > This is all I can share with you. Thanks a bunch guys... thanks for all your help. I got my External Drive Kit to recgonize my 200GB HD. I partitioned it to two 100GB Partitions. which came out to about 93GB each partition. I still get a total of 186GB. I thought Jeff said that with smaller partitons you lose less HD Space. *Shrugs* Anyways this is how i did it. I pluged it back into a desktop and ran the virtual dos datalife disk that came with the Western Digital HD and partitioned it into two roughly 100GB Partitions with FAT32. it had an option of using NTFS or FAT32 or FAT16 and one more. but default was NTFS I had to make sure to chose FAT32. and now pluged it into my HD Kit and via USB on my laptop and works! THANKS AGAIN, Eric >-----Original Message----- >Hello does anyone know if win98se can support a 200GB HD? >. I've got a similar problem. Western Digital 200G hard drive. Booted off the WD (Data lifeguard 11 ) CD. Partitioned the drive into 4 - 50G partitions. Used the CD utility to dup the old 'C' and 'D' partitions off the old drives (this allows WIN98SE to boot with all links okay and drivers for motherboard intact). Take the old drives off the cable and power up the computer. Bios see drive correctly (motherboard manufacture say this MB and bios version uses 48 LBA to access drive) Windows boots and explorer can see the new drives, but the last drive is reported as unformatted. Format the drive (using windows format) and the drive size is correct and the scan disk is good, but now the 'C' drive reports error under scan disk. Is this a symptom that WIN98SE is wrapping when it gets beyond 127G? |
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