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I can't for the life of me remember what the deal is.

Two things I remember is that Win98SE had a limit on HD size and CPU speed. Someone wanna fill in the blanks?

HD size was 138 gigs I think and i cant remember about the CPU speed. Maybe there were patches? I know one addressed the HD up to 130+ gig....

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Fastest CPU I ever ran 98SE on was 1.6 GHz, can't think of anyone running it on something faster. There were no problems.
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As far as I know, there is no maximum CPU speed for Win98. There are, however, patches available that address some CPU speed specific bugs
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As I recall, Win98 SE can handle logical drives up to 4 Terabytes. There were BIOS limitations of that era that limited hard drives to the value you mentioned.

You might also be remembering this update:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/down ... efault.asp


Edit: I stand corrected (from the Windows 98 Resource Kit Book Online):

"FAT32 goes beyond the capabilities of FAT16. The most prominent feature is that it supports drives of up to 2 terabytes in size."
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IIRC the 98SE size limitation was a problem with the implementation of FAT32. At any rate I would say it is sloppy to use 98SE and FAT32 on anything larger then a 30 GB drive. Whoever needs this must really want some DOS program to work if they want to make 98SE work on a modern system with a larger then 120 GB hard drive.
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Here's a list of various "barriers" and their source:

http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_driv ... rriers.htm
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Krom wrote:IIRC the 98SE size limitation was a problem with the implementation of FAT32. At any rate I would say it is sloppy to use 98SE and FAT32 on anything larger then a 30 GB drive. Whoever needs this must really want some DOS program to work if they want to make 98SE work on a modern system with a larger then 120 GB hard drive.
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yep, big drives are not the problem in win98, you can make serveral partions not breaking the fat32 limit.

but win98se had problems with physical memory more then 512mb ram, i think it was a problem with the harddrive cache smartdisk if i recall right.
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Win98 also had a problem with RAM over 512. YOuhad to edit a .ini file and add a line for it not to crash with 1 gig.
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I had Win98 SE on my XP 2100+ 1.7GHz and had it overclocked a little to 1820 Mhz with no problem.
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And I ran 98SE with an XP2600+ and 512mb of DDR333. No sweat.
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Microsoft Windows® 98 has 2 issues with HD limits, hardware is the the third

O/S:
Windows® 98 fdisk 64GB fix

The FAT 32 Limitation (124.55 GiB / 127.53 GB)
Microsoft Windows® 95B, 98 and Windows® Millennium Edition

Hardware: ATA Interface Limit (128 GiB / 137 GB) Barrier
If you do not have a motherboard that supports 48 bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) then you need a ATA card that does
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There was an AMD Athlon XP patch as well.
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Tyranny wrote:
Krom wrote:IIRC the 98SE size limitation was a problem with the implementation of FAT32. At any rate I would say it is sloppy to use 98SE and FAT32 on anything larger then a 30 GB drive. Whoever needs this must really want some DOS program to work if they want to make 98SE work on a modern system with a larger then 120 GB hard drive.
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I think it's one of the stupidest things to do myself, but he's bent on having it that way... Who?.. he knows who he is..

Anyway, thanks guys.
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Why Win98? I mean, there's plenty of people who, given the opportunity to use WinXP or Linux or anything newer, they choose 98. What special features does Win98 have here that I'm missing?
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Who knows, its like blind brand loyalty.
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Nitrofox125 wrote:Why Win98? I mean, there's plenty of people who, given the opportunity to use WinXP or Linux or anything newer, they choose 98. What special features does Win98 have here that I'm missing?
Probally the same reason people still use rotary phones. They refuse to buy new ones or even pay for the service on their line ( yes in some backwood states it's an option )

Or even better yet, those whom refuse to play anything other than Descent 1.

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CDN_Merlin wrote:Win98 also had a problem with RAM over 512. YOuhad to edit a .ini file and add a line for it not to crash with 1 gig.
Actually, you could just run msconfig and change it there as well. However, that only limited the ammount of RAM it would use.
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I have a 1.7ghz system that I can boot into Win98 if I want...but I never do.

heh.
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Nitrofox125 wrote:Why Win98? I mean, there's plenty of people who, given the opportunity to use WinXP or Linux or anything newer, they choose 98. What special features does Win98 have here that I'm missing?
To run old programs/games. The "compatability" feature of XP sucks.
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