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#1 User is offline   Jlo555 

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Posted 04 December 2007 - 06:52 PM

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!

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#2 User is offline   galahs 

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Posted 04 December 2007 - 06:58 PM

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

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Posted 05 December 2007 - 03:48 AM

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.

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Posted 05 December 2007 - 12:49 PM

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

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Posted 06 December 2007 - 03:39 AM

View PostJlo555, on Dec 5 2007, 12:49 PM, said:

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

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Posted 06 December 2007 - 01:45 PM

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).

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