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Yes, that's the best way of doing it. On the other hand, if you want to exclude some storage medium more permanently, you always can comment (i.e. add a semicolon before) its entries in usbstor.inf. By comparing the usbstor.infs for NUSB 3.1 and 3.3, its easy to see how it's done. I've uploaded just the .infs here, for their easy retrieval. I don't believe it can be done... Then again, for all storage media that identify themselves as "removable media", windows will add "Eject" to the context menu, so one can always right-click on the device icon in explorer or my_computer, and select "Eject", to attain that result. Or eject them from the command-line, using the handy Dave Navarro's freeware EJECT v2.02. On the third hand, for external USB HDDs (which always identify themselves as "non-removable", for Win NT/XP to allow them to have multiple partitions), things get nasty without NUSB, so I think it becomes mthe "Removable"andatory to use NUSB, even if just to have them appear in the eject-utility in the system tray. BTW, ticking the "Removable" checkbox in My_Computer -> Properties -> Device Manager -> Disk Drives -> <right-click the external USB HDD's icon> -> Properties -> Settings is required for Win 9x/ME to assign letters for all partitions. But even with "Removable" selected Win 9x/ME won't add "Eject" to the context menu of a the "non-removable" medium.

Hey, me too. I used the MS Basic Compiler under CP/M quite a bit What CP/M computer did you have?It was a MSX, the Gradiente Expert XP-800, a brazilian clone of the National CF-3000. MS Basic, Turbo Pascal, Wordstar and VisiCalc... Those were great days...

Yes, I double-boot Win 98SE (w/98SE2ME) and Win XP SP3, too. I have a third bootable partition to use as a sandbox, where I can destroy an image of either of my OSes, without causing any real damage to either. And I've used unix for a long time on workstations, SunOS, Solaris, Irix, even FreeBSD and Linux on PCs. And I've used CP/M, of course, but never happened to use OS/2. All in all, I remain believing that Win 9x rules!

whatever420, BenoitRen and dcyphure have put it very well. I've been doing the same, and also spending long hours trying to make sense of the results obtained from disassemblers, debuggers and hexeditors, and also by reading "between the lines" of whatever documentation I happen to find, be it on paper or online (very often what is not explicitly asserted turns out to be the truly important info).

You all may find this old topic of interest: Puzzling Registry Size Issue. And, do backup yor registry before starting to yank things out of it. Sometimes it's months before you find out something went wrong. Messing with the register can mean hours of reinstalls. Or just redeploying the backed up SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT, in case you had stashed a copy of them somewhere safe, before starting your cleanup.

As I post, this I'm using a 32GB Corsair Flash Voyager, which works perfectly, being recognized by NUSB without any problem. Now, if 32GB isn't large enough, I'm also using a 500GB USB IOMEGA HDD, partitioned in two 250GB partitions, one primary and the other logical, inside an extended partition. I have also used it as a single primary 500GB partition (that chokes NDD32, that's why I've split it in two). NUSB also recognizes the USB HDD without any issue. So, I don't think we have any problem with Win 9x/ME-compatible support for Mass Storage Devices at present (thanks to Maximus-Decim ). In my experience, all USB Flash Drives based on SMI's SM321/SM324 controllers are guaranteed to work flawlessy with the current NUSB, although many other controllers also work. It seems that even now another Corsair Flash Voyager is hitting the market, and it's a 64GB. Can anyone confirm it also uses the same family of SMI controllers as as all 8-32GB Flash Voyagers also use? (Older 1-4GB Flash Voyagers used Prolific 2518 controller, that also works with NUSB, but most machines refuse to boot from them). And what about the Flash Voyager GT, do anyone have experience with them and Win 9x/ME?And, BTW, I'm using Chip Genius 2.64 with my Win 98SE and it works OK... I must disagree here also: NUSB is a mature package, that you install once, and it returns you the true bliss of having device after device recognized and working thenceforward.Please don't take me wrong: I'm not feeling particularly confrontational, and I do think this topic is relevant and that you're doing a great job with it. I do not intend to hijack the topic. SDHC & micro-SDHC rock, and you do too!

No. No one has. That's why I gave up using it. The last driver that works flawlessy is the 29.42, in my experience, but, perhaps, YMMV.

Excellent point about total clusters. Several partitions on a 500 GB (even more on 1 TB) would seem to be a smart tradeoff. I prefer single partitioning myself but this compromise may be unavoidable. You know, someone should pool all this data of the various limits of common tools (FDISK, Format, Scandisk, Scandskw, NDD32, Win9x/WinMe versions, etc etc etc) into a nice table. I think RLoew offered some insight into these limits on that LLXX patched ESDI_506 thread. I also just thought of a peculiar scenario that may happen in this configuration ... Given a Win9x system plus LARGE Hard Drive on USB. The user has done some work involving the USB HDD. Later in the session something goes awry and a hard lockup (or a plain old power blackout). On restart the DOS Scandisk catches the ATA Hard Drive(s) as dirty and scans, and of course ignores the USB Hard Drive connected or not (I always disconnect them). When the system gets back to Windows, the user must remember to immediately run a Windows based Scandskw on the USB drive (WinME version no doubt, or Norton) or they will be making a big mistake by possibly writing to a 'dirty' disk. Certainly someone has come across this? Happened to me all the time. That's why I decided to change it to 2x 250GB, because I like to use NDD32. Most of the info is in that thread I pointed or is reachable from links therein. If you decide to start a table on all the various limts, I'll be glad to help tracking the info down.

@Molecule:Well, to be more precise, since you are interested in the model number, it's an External Hi Speed USB IOMEGA MDHD500-U enclosure with a Hitachi Deskstar HDS725050 500 GB HDD inside The other HDD I have also tested is actually a multimedia player: External Hi Speed USB Conceptronic Grab'n'GO CSM3PL with a 3.5" SAMSUNG HD501LJ 500 GB HDD inside.

Well, here's my two cents: NTFS is a no-no. I use an External Hi Speed IOMEGA HDS725050 500 GB USB HDD. It is formatted as FAT-32 and is recognized by NUSB. At first I set it up as a single 500 GB primary partition. It'd work OK, *BUT*, NDD32 crashed beyond hope with it, as it had 15.2 millions of clusters. It was quite bothersome to me, so I decided to repartition the drive and now I'm quite happy using it with a primary 250 GB partition plus a logical 250 GB partition inside an extended partition. NDD32 is now happy as each has just 7.1 millions of clusters, which is less than NDD32's limit (known to be somewhere above 8.6 millions of clusters). Read more about it here: Install w98 on Large Drives Post #37 (and do follow the links in it) and then my own #42. You'll need to replace some Win 98SE programs by their Win ME conterparts in order to avoid problems. Read that same thread from post #1 to know more about them. And to make Win 98SE allow you to set more than just one letter to the disk you'll have to set it as removable in the Hardware Manager, reboot, add the second letter, reboot, uncheck again the "removable" box and reboot (better leave it as "removable", Win 9x/ME will be stabler this way with the disk plugged in). The system will now find the two partitions and give each a letter, a not-so-short while after you plug or turn on the external disk, whichever you do last.

Thanks for the report, Ninho! You rock! Reporting the issues of modded programs is of fundamental importance, and helps a lot when troubleshooting our systems!

Did you give good old DOS FIND a try? It might be just what you needed, and you've already got it.

Sorry, but you can use more than that. It's easy. And your XP will be happy with more RAM, too! Please read Day-to-day running Win 9x/ME with more than 1 GiB RAM and the links thereof.

Isn't this only true for Windows ME? AFAIK, Windows 98 doesn't have a memory manager integrated into its kernel. Of course you are right, alexanrs! Tihiy has removed the integrated the DOS part of DWCFGMG (DOS and Windows Plug and Play Configuration Manager), which is redundant, because its supreceeded by CONFIGMG.VxD when starting Win 9x. See also the attached text (from 1994, when it was standalone). DWCFGMG.TXT

Why... for the same reason others ride on '61 VolksWagen 1200 Beetles and Trabbants from the 70's, of course! I find harder to understand why would anyone burn a bucketload of money to have those contemporary New Beetles, though...

Well, the only existing Universal ATA driver for Windows With PATA/SATA support is Alter's and it's just for NT3.51/NT4/2000/XP. You should try to convince Alter to port it to Win 9x/ME also, as he stated he intended to do someday, or maybe yourself or someone else in these forums might be willing (and have the time) to try it. I'm sure Alter'd be delighted to help, but really doubt he'll ever find time to do it by himself. I'm aware this info is not very helpful, but I never found any SATA drivers for 9x/ME, beseides the VIASRAID pack for VIA chipsets. Sorry! BTW, read also this thread about uniATA. There you'll also find the SiS SATA driver, of which I'd never heard before.

Are you perchance using a 3- or 5-button mouse? If so, use the dos Cute Mouse 2.0 alpha 4 driver (google for it), instead of MS Mouse, and it'll solve your problem.

I confirm that tweaking GoogleEarth cache in the registry is the only way to do it that works.

I use an Epson Stylus C83. It has the required drivers and has a Centronics connector to allow connection trough the classic the parallel to Centronics printer cable. And prints beautifully, although a cartridge resetter is in order for you to be able to use up all the ink in the cartridges. But a resetter is cheap and easy to find. HTH.

@jaclaz: You're right, of course! It's my bad: I wrote CODEBOX, but I was thinking CODE instead. Yet I think you've hit jackpot if all that's required is to change CODE for CODEBOX!!! @CharlotteTheHarlot: Would you please change your CODE tags for CODEBOX on post #1 so that we may see whether jaclaz's solution works? Thanks a lot!

Probably. Here I've got the same problem also. I run Win 98SE with 98SE2ME and a fully updated IE6SP1. I do think it is related to CODEBOXes, because I've seen it happen elsewhere on these forums, also when CODEBOXes were involved. HTH

From a DOS BOX (or from Start --> Run), use:C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\REGSVR32.EXE <full path>\dllname.dll

Have you ever been to eng2ita?

For a PATA disk, the Ranish Partition Manager can do it in both cases, if I'm not mistaken.

Welcome back soporific. Hi, Eck! I can confirm that Via Hyperion 4-in-1 4.56v is the latest version suitable for 9x/ME. As for SATA, perhaps your controller is not so crappy after all: the point is the latest drivers that work for 9x/ME with Via 6420 or 8237 SATA controllers is way older than that! The right choice is VIA_VT6420VT8237_SerialATA_V220E.zip, which is not easy to find. But now there is a link to get it here.