Can I use this drive on 98se?

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simplequestion wrote
My bios will recognize this drive, so if I use a partition utility to
break it up into 100gb paritions, can I use it on a 98se system?
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98SE has limitations with drives over 137GB, and
breaking it up into 100GB partitions doesnt fix those.
http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm

You can just wear the fact that you cant use scandisk etc tho and
use something like Acronis Disk Director Suite for that instead.
specs say xp/vista.
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For that reason.
 
simplequestion said:
My bios will recognize this drive, so if I use a partition utility to
break it up into 100gb paritions, can I use it on a 98se system?
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specs say xp/vista. it's a passport 500gb.
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http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=569
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The problem is that 98se does not have sector access support
above 137GB or rather it wraps around and starts to overwrite
the beginning of the disk, typically resulting in complete
data loss. You can try with a single partition of 100GB at
the beginning, maybe it works, but it is risky.

Arno
 
Arno said:
The problem is that 98se does not have sector access support
above 137GB or rather it wraps around and starts to overwrite
the beginning of the disk, typically resulting in complete data loss.
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Not with an EXTERNAL DRIVE.
You can try with a single partition of 100GB at
the beginning, maybe it works, but it is risky.
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No need with an EXTERNAL DRIVE.
 
Oh, I see. This is an USB drive, yes?
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USB and firewire.
That is something different indeed. Whether extern or intern
does not mater a bit though, the interface makes the difference.
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True. In a practical sense tho all externals dont have the LBA48 problem.
 
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