SATA HD in win98/Me?

[Kmuland]

I have a new external USB-HD drive... its an 1TB external SATA HD.

The HD works perfect in XP but the drive is not recognized into win98 and ME

There is some update/fix/hack to enable SATA in win98/ME?

Thanks

[Lecco]

Have you nUSB installed?

[Kmuland]

Have you nUSB installed?

In the win98 machine .. yes.. I have it installed..

In the winME machine not cause I never had USB problems until now

I think Its a problem of SATA drivers missing

[Sfor]

If the external drive is not formatted with FAT32 the Windows98/ME will not be able to access it. Since it is a 1TB drive, it is highly possible it was formatted with NTFS. Windows 98/ME is not able to access NTFS, I'm afraid.

[Kmuland]

If the external drive is not formatted with FAT32 the Windows98/ME will not be able to access it. Since it is a 1TB drive, it is highly possible it was formatted with NTFS. Windows 98/ME is not able to access NTFS, I'm afraid.

drive is using FAT32.. anyway the lack of support for NTFS makes me think to go back to XP in these old computers

Edited January 6, 2009 by Kmuland

[Multibooter]

I think Its a problem of SATA drivers missing ... drive is using FAT32.. anyway the lack of support for NTFS makes me think to go back to XP in these old computers

I am using 3 Thermaltake enclosures, each with a 1TB SATA HDD inside, they work fine under Win98 (both with nusb and with the manufacturer-provided driver, no special SATA driver is needed). See my posting at http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...st&p=824708

I haven't tried a single 1TB FAT32 partition in a USB drive yet. Maybe you should create FAT32 partitions <240GB. 1TB FAT32 partitions are dangerous, how could you fix lost clusters? And when it comes to data recovery, you may be in deep trouble. To make sure that there is no BIOS etc problem on your old computer I would initially set the 1st FAT32 partition on your HDD to <127GB, to see whether the partition gets displayed in My Computer.

I have an NTSF partition on the 1TBs, for exceptional files >2GB, but I prefer to have all my other stuff on FAT32 partitions because I am moving gradually to Linux, and FAT32 can be handled properly by Linux, in contrast to NTSF partitions. I even have WinXP on a FAT32 partition, so that my virus scanner can check under Win98 the WinXP partition, e.g. for root kits.

Edited January 7, 2009 by Multibooter