Hi.
I am trying to copy a working version of Win98 SE to a 100 GB partition on a 200 GB hard drive. The other 100 GB has XP using NTFS. My problem is Win98 does not see the drive correctly - in particular, the 100 GB partition. My mb is an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe so uses the 865PE chipset. I could not load the 48-bit LBA enhancing program by Intel (the Accelerator program) as my chipset is not supported.
I used XP to create the 100 GB partition, but did not have it choose a file structure and is not formatted. Fdisk reports the partition incorrectly at 30 GB (half of what it thinks is the drive's 60 GB). I believe this is due to the 137 GB limit inherit in FAT32 and is merely 200-140. But if the partition is less than 137 GB, why can't Win98 see it correctly?
Incidentally, if I use Windows properties to check the hard drive size, it says 0 bytes total. I do not mind redoing this drive if necessary, but I really don't want to re-install win98. XP can be reinstalled without any headaches as it is a fresh install. Also, I need some way to mark the Windows partition as active. XP seemed to have a problem with having two partitions be active on the same drive.
My goal is to have a dual-boot system with XP and WIN98 each getting 1/2 of the 200 GB drive. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to copy a working version of Win98 SE to a 100 GB partition on a 200 GB hard drive. The other 100 GB has XP using NTFS. My problem is Win98 does not see the drive correctly - in particular, the 100 GB partition. My mb is an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe so uses the 865PE chipset. I could not load the 48-bit LBA enhancing program by Intel (the Accelerator program) as my chipset is not supported.
I used XP to create the 100 GB partition, but did not have it choose a file structure and is not formatted. Fdisk reports the partition incorrectly at 30 GB (half of what it thinks is the drive's 60 GB). I believe this is due to the 137 GB limit inherit in FAT32 and is merely 200-140. But if the partition is less than 137 GB, why can't Win98 see it correctly?
Incidentally, if I use Windows properties to check the hard drive size, it says 0 bytes total. I do not mind redoing this drive if necessary, but I really don't want to re-install win98. XP can be reinstalled without any headaches as it is a fresh install. Also, I need some way to mark the Windows partition as active. XP seemed to have a problem with having two partitions be active on the same drive.
My goal is to have a dual-boot system with XP and WIN98 each getting 1/2 of the 200 GB drive. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.