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Well, I formatted my external 320Gb Team (I'm not sure if I remember this vendor name correctly) HDD to FAT32 with recent Paragon Partition Manager (under Windws 7). With NUSB it is seen correctly on Windows 98. Paragon Partition Manager is not limited by 32 GB per FAT32 partition.

May be that's not about your case, but I had this when plugging my USB HDD with only one data connector of an y-cable because of low power. Everything unfreezed after pulling out my HDD.

Tell more about your configuration. Which OS do you have? Do you use KernelEx, Revolutions pack, unofficial updates? Why do you think that the problem is because of your GeForce?

32x32??? I thought 16x16...

Thank you for your help. Yes, it came together with the y-cable. I'll try to plug in always both connectors when possible.

It is a 2.5", and I have a "y-cable". But I didn't know what is the second connector for until yesterday evening, so I didn't tried it. On my new PC and on two my friends' PCs it worked OK even under stress reading/writing of large volumes of data with ony one connector plugged in. At first, I thought that this connector is used for other HDDs with normal USB port, not miniUSB (I know a man who has such HDD). Windows 98 PC is in suburb, so now I cannot try using both connectors. I just wanted to exclude other reasons. I would probably go there on Wednesday and try using both connector. Or may be it will be much later.

I tried my USB HDD with my Windows 98 PC and got negative result. It was detected properly, however when I started to copy some files from my USB flash stick to the drive, I've got a few read errors, and then my USB stick became unreadable (even after reboot). It was OK after I unplugged it and plugged again. I already experienced such errors occasionally when copying files from USB stick to another USB stick. However after this I started to get write errors with my USB HDD. It even broke a folder on it, I had to fix it with scandisk. After scandisk the file system on USB HDD was OK, but then the strange things begun to happen. After I plug in my HDD, it works for a few seconds if I access it with explorer, I can browse folders for some time, but soon everything (the whole explorer and any other app trying to access USB HDD) hangs up. It hangs up immediately if I access it with Total Commander. If I delete the registry entry for this HDD from Enum section, it is recognized again, it works for several minutes, I can open some files from this HDD, and they are opened corectly, I can access it with Total Commander, but soon everything hangs up again until I unplug the HDD. Then everything starts to respond again. May be the reason is insufficient power for this HDD? It's quite an old Intel D815EPE2U motherboard. Or this is a software problem? Maybe I should have written this into Native USB drivers thread...

I have a problem with my digital photo camera Canon Powershot SX120IS. It is detected when I plug it in, the system searches for the driver but does not find the proper one. After installing of NUSB 3.3, it always found the usbstor.inf for all USB devices except for this camera. Any suggestions?

I have met such error too, but I don't remember which app required it. But may be a stub for this function will be useful.

This was discussed on this forum earlier, though I don't remember a solution. May be this page will help. Edit: I'm recalling something about renaming java nextgen plugin in the installed java binaries to force browser to load old plugin, but I don't remember exactly.

Not sure if everything works under Windows 98, but I did the following: 1. Converted DVD to avi with some converter that did not save second audio stream 2. Got AC3 file of this stream with SmartRipper as it is written here: http://www.glump.net/howto/audio_only_dvd_ripping_guide (item 3) 3. Used VirtualDubMod to add the this track as the second audio stream to the avi with direct stream copy option. Both SmartRipper and VirtualDubMod are relatively old apps, so I think they would work under Windows 98. SmartRipper is a bit buggy, so to make the "Demux to extra file" option available you may need to clear check boxes for all streams first and than select the stream you need.

Me too I vote for Defraggler.

AkelPad is my default text editor on Windows 98. I think it has best functionality/size ratio (with some plugins, of course). I never had problems with it and RP, may be I just never used the problem plugin.

Oh! Surely! I knew that both my PC's are LBA48-aware, and just didn't thought about possibility of connecting my HDD to some other PC, that is not. I'll consider repartitioning. Thank you for the advice.

Good , EXACTLY what is NOT advised. Unless of course: it is ACTUALLY a 320 Mb HD jaclaz Sorry, Gb of course. Hmm... Is it not advised? I have read this thread, but I have not seen this. May be I missed something... I have already formatted the HDD, but still haven't tried it with Windows 98 yet. May be in a couple of days.

No, I just haven't time for it. I'll do it later today or tomorrow.

I have a suggestion on KernelEx. HWMonitor from CPUID seems to have a Windows 9x version ( http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/1.16-win98.zip ), but it does not work because of missing dependencies from setupapi.dll. However as I read in MSDN, this functions are implemented in Windows 98 but in another dll - cfgmgr32.dll. It seems that HWMonitor developers didn't do this step from MSDN. "If you intend that your device installation application run on Windows 9x/Me, or Windows NT 4.0 or earlier, and you use the CM_Xxx functions, be sure that CfgMgr32.lib appears before SetupAPI.lib in the sources file. If your application is intended to run only on Windows 2000 or a later NT-based operating system, you can omit CfgMgr32.lib." However may be you can add references to cfgmgr32.dll functions into setupapi.dll, like the references to unicows.dll. This is HWMonitor bug, but maybe this will be useful for some other apps that do not intend to support Windows 9x and need these API?

I have just ordered a 320 Mb external USB HDD. Hope that I will not have such painful experience Though a few days ago I have tried such HDD of my friend - unsuccessfully. It was recognized, but it was not assigned letters (partitioned into two partition, and I suspect they were NTFS partitions). I didn't have NTFS driver installed then. To simplify the situation, I'll partition my drive to a single FAT32 partition. And yes, I know about BigHDD patch

I have made a test with huge text fragment. I successfully copied and pasted ~12 Mb and ~25 Mb plain text pieces. So, clipboard size is definitely not limited to 16 Mb. The tests were performed with AkelPad 1.0.4 text editor. The latest version 4.4.4 hangs up OS even with 9 Mb fragment. 12 Mb were copied in less than one seconds, and pasted in 10-20 seconds. 25 Mb fragment was copied in several seconds and pasted in 4-5 minutes, so I don't think I'll perform test with a larger fragment - I waited too long even for this test. My Windows 98 computer (real, not virtual) has 256 Mb RAM.

I had such problems with login to this forum even before - with Opera 10.0. This is the only reason why I still keep my Firefox 2 on Win 98 PC together with Opera even though my lack of HDD space.

Recent version of LeaderTask personal organizer from giveawayoftheday worked for me. PC-Wizard 2010.1.95 worked partially. Some info cannot be retrieved (like temperatures), some details cause system to hang up, but most of the stuff were detected and displayed correctly. Without KernelEx PC-Wizard fails to start.

Make a screenshot of some text (better, black text on white background) and then magnify it several times to see separate pixels. If there are colored pixels on the font borders, then ClearType is on.

Maybe that's a bitmap size limit, not the clipboard. Do a test with huge text fragment. Or maybe I'll do it myself on Friday or Saturday. Though my Win98 PC has 256 Mb RAM only.

Not sure but you may try Windows 2000 compatibility mode.

I have a couple of questions on KernelEx and some applications. Does VLC need any specific compatibility mode? When I don't set any compatibility mode it shows me an "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" error when opening my DVD disk. However I may watch it if I don't close this message but move its window out of the screen. I always had this error with VLC 1 and 1.1 and all tested KernelEx versions. I have russian Windows 98 SE, and VLC uses russian language. When I enable Win2K or WinXP compatibility for it, all letters become black squares. I don't really care about it, because I don't use a compatibility mode for VLC, however QtWeb browser gives me the same black squares instead of menus and labels in its dialogs, and it is not usable without Win2K compatibility mode. Is there any way to fix it?