xan1242

I know what's PITA,and it isn't a good felling.Biggest PITA I've ever had was when I was fixing my synth.Restarting each time isn't all too big PITA for me. I do have another machine,but my brother is going to take it away and give it to his girlfriend. (Otherwise,I wouldn't even bother installing Windows 98 on my computer) *ontopic* Well,that didn't seem to help.As soon I saw the bar at bottom of the boot screen got choppy,I knew it was gonna take a too long time to boot.I'll measure time now and I'll see if MS-DOS compatibility cut some time (I am installing on a USB stick).I really wish I could find a workaround for free. BTW,will Windows 98 SE work on a (Dell) laptop with Intel Core i5 and 4GB ram and Intel 6 Series chipset?

Oh,I get it now.Thank you. You don't have to be mad for off-topic speak.

I'm on it right now.What should be ESDI_506.PDR renamed to anyways?I am going to install it on my main computer (that is,the computer I am typing this post on),so I do not know yet.

I did look there before I posted,but I thought it was something else than incompatibility when I started this thread (I even said that I saw somewhere in this forum and yes,that thread was on my mind).I thought it was a chipset issue,not a SATA driver issue. I made a 4GB partition with Partition Magic in Fat32,copied the startup files from startup disk (sys A: C:) and copied installation files and then installed it.That's my usual procedure of installing Windows 98 on any computer,so I do not think that MS-DOS compatibility mode will be any use to me.How do you stop the USB port from being stolen by Windows 98?

I know,but I still don't find worth paying for an OS old like that.Unfortunately my motherboard does not have any compatibility mode option in BIOS. Yeah,when it finds the USB device,it steals it and then stops it.That's what happened during the installation when it was scanning for devices.

The size of my SATA HDD is 37 GB,my IDE HDD is 40 GB and my USB Stick is 4 GB.I am trying to install it on a 4 GB partition on my SATA disk.I usually hide/unplug my 1 TB HDD when installing and booting.Hmm,I would rather not pay for old software (well,except for games,maybe) because I find it not worth paying and I don't think I need the patch because BIOS can already emulate the HDD as IDE. So,the chipset is making problems?How come I can boot into Mini Windows 98 without any problem whatsoever?i guess I could take some patches (if there are any) from there..

Sorry for yelling for help already on my first post. So,I have a modern PC and I did follow the instructions in this topic: And my PC has Gigabyte M68M-S2P (Rev 1.0) motherboard which is AM2+,my CPU is AMD Athlon II x2 250 (AM3 processor) and I have 2GB ram.I know I saw somewhere in this forum that AM2/AM2+/AM3 motherboards are incompatible with Windows 98 SE.It does boot,but after a half an hour,and that's way too long.Is there any way to fix this? In BOOTLOG.TXT I see some fonts that were unable to load..Could that be the problem?I doubt the SATA hard drives could be the problem,because I tried to install it on IDE hard drive and on USB stick as well (because the BIOS is capable to boot off SATA and USB) and it still takes too long to boot.