pygmollion

Thanks Sfor and Mijzelf. I've got it set up on a 10 gb partition so far.. and formatted the rest of the 138 gb as a second drive. I also DID try to install the Intel Application Accelerator... strange.. it won't install saying I do not meet the required minimums.. I do have the Intel Chipset drivers bla bla bla...and it does list win98 as supported... what gives?? grrrrrr... and the dell is on a 845 chipset... and the processor is a 1.8 ghz p4........lol I'm tired. Playing games on on the slower 30gb hdd is pretty awesome... got half life up and running and a few other games... I just wanted to use the 160 gb with the fat a** 8 mb cache lol. thanks guys.

I am bewildered at the amount of reading I've done in the last 4-5 days researching the installation issue that I have trying to reinstall Win98SE onto an old Dell C840 laptop that I have. Old HDD died (20 GB) and I got a good deal on a 160 GB hdd... Now the issue is that the bios doesn't see past 137 GB. And of course so does the win98se install cd. The windows XP cd that I used to at least set up the partitions see the whole 160 gb. I've tried using the Autopatcher98 which is great and solved a lot of other problems. I also tried to make my own unattended install using the W9X package thing.. and that didn't work... It came out saying it couldn't find command.com ... twice and would hang. Just one question... How do I slipstream at LEAST the 48b LBA update so that the install CD sees and uses the entire 160 gb as I see fit?? I forgot... Friday is a bad day to post for help lol