Hi, so I really need another external hard drive, as I've managed to fill my 160gig Maxtor onetouch III completely with tv shows and crap. When I bought this drive originally, it was listed as incompatible with win98, but I was able to reformat it with FAT32 and use the native drivers, and it works perfectly now. So, now I'm thinking about getting a bigger one (like 300GB) and doing the same thing as before.

I'm sure someone has already asked/answered this but is the LBA problem with 127+ GB hard drives prevalent on external hard drives? also, will i run into problems formatting a drive that's over 300GB with FAT32? I never had any problems with my original 160gig, but I figured that I was just lucky!

also does anyone have recommendations as to which drive I should get that's external, cheap, compatible and between 300GB to 1TB?

Thanks!

I've run a 320GB usb2 hard disk on Win98SE without a hitch, and filled and access data past the 137GB limit

The LBA48 problem is bound to the standard IDE harddisk driver of W9x. So all other ways to access disks are not affected: SCSI, USB, Firewire, ESDI (Well, I don't think you will find a 127GB+ ESDI drive), or even BIOS calls. This does not mean that these interfaces don't have other limits/bugs, but they don't have this one.

that's good, so any suggestions on 'compatible' external hard drives, or are there any ones that people know for sure are NOT compatible?

My external disk (WD) 500 GB / NUSB 3.3 (Windows 98 SE with correct esdi_506.pdr) / FAT32

I've had very good results using the External HardDisk cases distrubuted by CompUSA so far. However, There was a brand (which i cant remember the brand of for the life of me at the moment . . . began with a "A") which I had poor results with (would work for a bit - could access the drive but stopped being able to read/write with it unstill restarted the extenal drive after around 15-20 mins of use).