Dave-H

Did you download the file from the torrent? I'd be interested to know whether your experience with it is the same as mine, and whether you think it's the genuine article!

Simply supposition, because the torrent I found here that appears to be the program is a 12 MB file. The installer looks to be correct when you run it, although it doesn't say what version it is. Unfortunately it fails when unpacking the files with a CRC error. Of course it could be some nasty masquerading as the Paragon program, but it doesn't get far enough to find out! I've tried extracting the files from it, but haven't got anywhere with that either.

Thanks schwups, but I'm afraid that's the version I've already got! There should be a full version somewhere, which will be a much larger file.

I realise this is an old thread, but just hoping for some advice. I wanted to get access to an external NTFS drive under Windows 98, and found the Paragon software that supports this. It is free now, but when I downloaded it from Paragon and installed it, it seems to work fine but it appears to be read only. I can write files to the NTFS drive under Windows 98 OK with it and seem to be able to use them OK, but on reboot, they have disappeared! Is this a limitation of the Paragon program? I gather that there was originally a free read only version, and a paid for full version. Paragon tell me that the full version is no longer available, and they no longer support Windows 98 in any way shape or form! They also don't support their free software anyway, so that was the end of that! When I downloaded the "free" version, I was sent an e-mail with a registration code, which the software didn't ask for, which makes me think that there must be a fuller version still out there somewhere. Try as I might I cannot find it though, all there is is the version I've got, an about 2 GB file. I did find a torrent that was 12 GB, which claimed to be the full version, but it wouldn't install, with an "Installer CRC Error". Presumably it's corrupted. Anyone any idea where I can still get the full version, as I assume the registration code they gave me will unlock it. Thanks, Dave.

Thanks Rudolph. What should I do now? You should have my e-mail address from when we've done business before, will you e-mail me the test program or give me a link to download it? Cheers, Dave.

Thanks! I've looked at your catalogue, and I assume what I need is the item simply called "SATA", which is in the "Prerelease and Beta Software" section. It says to contact you about it, so what do I do next? It also says "This file is not for use with separate SATA Motherboard Controllers or SATA Cards. Does not support RAID or AHCI." Is that OK, as I'm proposing using it with an add-on card? It is a four port RAID card, two SATA and two eSATA, although I'm only intending to use it for single drives. Thanks, Dave.

Thanks Rudolph! That's good to know, and I'll happily buy the patch of course. The card I have is actually a PCI-X card. Does that make any difference?

Just got a card to use SATA drives on my system. It's a Silicon Image 3124 card. Works fine in XP of course, but the driver doesn't actually work in 98SE. It appears to install OK, and appears normally in Device Manager, but no driver files are loaded and needless to say it doesn't work! I've combed the web but can find no evidence that a Windows 98 driver was ever issued for the card. Does anyone know of any generic SATA interface card driver that might work with it? Thanks, Dave.

I have a pen drive I can boot from into Windows 98SE, but as with rloew earlier, I can't use any other USB devices in that configuration. I have to use a PS/2 keyboard and mouse for instance.

That's interesting to know. In fact by chance I had already re-ordered the options to make them more logically arranged in the list offered. "Windows 98SE SP" is in fact number 3 in my list, and "NOHEAP" is number 11.

Sorry I'm not sure what you mean by "comp. mode". If you mean the download completion message that pops up bottom right, as I said it doesn't work at all for me in the "Windows 98SE SP" KernelEx mode. Also a lot of menu entries are missing for me. Some of them are just missing their text, but in some places the menu structure seems to be corrupted too. All this comes good if I revert to Windows 2000 KernelEx mode. I'm sorry but I really don't think Opera is usable like that, especially if you're a power user as I am.

I've done some more tests, and I'm afraid the notification at the bottom right of frame for when downloads end is definitely not working for me with that configuration. I assume this applies to all these notifications, e.g. for blocked pop-ups. If I set the KernelEx mode back to Windows 2000 it starts working again. I certainly can't use Opera without access to the settings menus!

Great, and it does what it says on the tin schwups, but I'm afraid I immediately saw problems with Opera 12.02 using this setup. The first thing I noticed was that the pop-up at the bottom right of frame when downloads completed was not appearing. I then looked more closely, and found that large chunks of the Opera tools menu were missing, including all the settings options! Setting the opera.exe KernelEx compatibility mode back to Windows 2000 put all this right again.

Opera 12.02 works fine on Windows 98SE (and I assume Windows ME) using KernelEx. There are a few anomalies, for instance you can't drag bookmarks around on the personal bar to re-order them as you should be able to do, but they are mainly cosmetic.

Welcome to the forum! Firstly, you haven't "fried" your video card. If it works OK under Windows 2000 the hardware must still be OK. You may well have corrupted the Windows 98 drivers though. Have you tried removing it in Device Manager and just rebooting and letting it reinstall itself? If that doesn't work, and assuming you have the driver disk for the card, or can download it, try removing it and cleaning the driver completely off the machine in Safe Mode. Remove the driver in the Add/Remove Programs list if it's there. If it's an ATI card or a nVidia card, you can use Driver Cleaner Pro to completely clean the system of all references to the driver. Then do a fresh install from the disks. Don't ignore warning messages in future, they're there for a reason! Hope this helps.

Fair enough! I've been using Opera as my main browser for many years, and never had a serious problem with it, but maybe I've been lucky!

Opera 12.02, the last version which will work on 98SE with KernelEx at the moment, is probably the best you'll do for now. It does have its idiosyncrasies when running under 98, but is perfectly usable. Of course many people on the Opera forum say that it's a resource hog too, although I personally haven't found that to be particularly the case. I don't use extensions, just an ad blocker which works very well indeed!

Well here's a revised order version of the changelog, done with good old-fashioned copy and pasting! Glad to make some small contribution, I'm afraid my technical knowledge isn't great enough to do more. Whether people think it's better this way around or not, you'll have to ask for feedback on. Cheers, Dave. changelog.txt

Looking good! One minor cosmetic thing is that the red text on dark grey used for the headings is a bit unclear to my eyes. Also, I personally think that it would be better if the changelog list showed the most recent changes at the top rather than at the bottom. Great job! Cheers, Dave.

Thanks PROBLEMCHYLD!

Well I've had this banner on Windows 98SE for many years now. I can't remember where it came from, but I suspect it was part of Gape's SP2.1a! Never felt the need for anything different.

The latest Flash plugin version is now 11.6.602.168 I believe.

As an aside, I think you should always have disk caching enabled on any browser, no matter how fast your internet connection is. If you don't, you will be re-downloading things from the web un-necessarily, which increases net congestion for everybody.

There are plenty of posts on the Opera user forum from people suffering poor performance even with the latest version under supported operating systems. Others always come back saying they have no problems at all! I guess there are just some systems that Opera doesn't perform well on. It would be good if a common cause could be found, but I suspect that's unlikely. I've been using Opera for years, since version 7, and never had any major problems with it (touch wood!)

I've never had any real problems with Opera 12.02. I consider that it will probably be the last version that will work under Windows 98, and therefore the most secure. There's odd niggles like not being able to move things around on the toolbars, but in actual use it seems to be stable and fast.