Using big USB HDDs with Win 9x/ME

[kd6aaj]

I'm not sure if the VFAT.VxD patch will work under DOS (from Win 98), it probably only works when running Windows 98 in GUI?

My USB is running the Win98SE version of DOS.

[deomsh]

If you mean a Window's DOS box: try "DIR /S" after changing to your USB-drive letter (without quotes). Total used and free space will be shown.

BTW can take a LONG time in your case...

Screenshot shows my 16MB (virtual) drive (some space is used by directory clusters, not counted):

 

[kd6aaj]

No, I mean a real DOS envirenment. I boot from a 64 Mega Byte (yes, it's that small) USB thumbdrive into MSDOS (Win 98 version). 

I believe my boot image is probably actually from an old 600MB HDD I once ran with on a AMD 486DX CPU. It shows up as a hard drive instead of a floppy.

I do have several floppy boot images as well (*.img), but I do remember copying the MBR from a HDD and putting it on a thumbdrive once upon a time.

Also I've found running Ghost and other programs work better on thumbdrive, because some programs want to save stuff to the boot drive, and CD-ROM would cause an error (I forget which exact program I used that did that).

 

I just used Ghost32.exe on my Windows 10 64-Bit PC to Ghost my Laptop drive partitions the other day. I just ran it as a normal program inside Windows 10 GUI, no Dosbox or anything. Lucky for me it is a small laptop HDD (250GB), so it works fine. Unfortunately another drive I have has Win10 and it is a 2TB Drive. The partition is less than 1TB, but Ghost says it's -something, a negative number. When I tried backing that partition up, it just saved a 6kb sized file with nothing but the drive location, drive name, and the partition was named "unknown", no files.

My understanding from reading the previous posts is that I would need to run Ghost2003 on a Windows 98 desktop to use VFAT.Vxd to be able to backup the partitions on a 2TB drive.