This May seem totally anal but
MSI K7N2-Delta L
XP2800+
Sapphire Radeon 9600XT
Kingston HyperX PC3200 DC 512MB
WD 120GB Caviar ATA100 8MB
HP 9500+ CD-RW
Mitsumi Floppy

Having these ERRORs on 98 and/or ME

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While Initializing Driver NDIS
Windows Protection Error
You Need To Restart Your Computer
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Fixed Disk Error
*Do you wish to Enable Large Disk Support? Y/N ->I entered Yes
"Error Reading Fixed Disk
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Takes 1 whole Minute for my Floppy disk to initiate

then Freezes at verify DMI Pool For a Few Minutes (4-5)
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WINDOWS and ESPECIALLY BG

Your first big problem is your OS 98 and ME are going to give you the hard time.

For the flopy issue just disable flopy on startup in you bios. The others I'm looking but hopfully someone will know faster than I. Yeah there is an issue with larger hdd on older OSs. you should partition it anyway. Create a 20 gig or less for your OS and the rest for other info.

I think win98 has some problems reading 100gb+ HDD's though I could be wrong. Should just go with win2k/xp pro. Either one is good but xp pro is the better of the two.

Yes, FAT 32 can only address drives smaller then 113 I believe, so partition it around 80/40 and you'll be save, you can push it closer, but I don't remember the exact number.

Well I'm wrong. According to a windows help section online:

Quote: FAT32 provides the following enhancements over previous implementations of the FAT file system: Supports drives up to 2 terabytes in size.

So thats not the problem. Sorry man I cant help anymore.

Also I found that Here under "Understanding Fat32".

Quote: Originally Posted by Red02 Well I'm wrong. According to a windows help section online: So thats not the problem. Sorry man I cant help anymore. Also I found that Here under "Understanding Fat32".

Hmm... ok, I guess that rules it out. I could have sworn one of those older technology things couldn't work correctly with it. I'd try partionining it anyways, it's an easy enough of a solution that's worth the effort.

Yeah thats what I thought as well. But I figured what the hell why not look it up. And well I was suprised to find that.

well actually the filesystem might be able to hit 2tb, but that doesnt necessarally mean the os will. 98 cant even handle more than 512mb of ram right, what makes you think itll do 100+GB of hdd right?


Give XP a try, thats my thoughts.

Thanks Alot I am too tired and frustrated so i am gonna stay on MY computer now is up and running beautifully

Merry XMAS (little busy earlier sorry)

See Sig*

~Bob