2 minutes ago, MERCURY127 said:

these exist ONE that driver for relative modern machines (as i think, begin at P2 era)

But it is not the only solution. Boot Managers allow this too. I used PLOP - for USB booting from ROM primarily but it has ATA drivers too.

13 minutes ago, SweetLow said:

Boot Managers allow this too

i use one only "boot manager" — PART, and only in minimal and stupid variant — one sector in MBR. this enough for select bw Win98, XP, 10 or Linux on same disk. 3-4 boot options per disk, switch to next disk, no PLOPS, no GRUBS, no CRABS, no PROBLEMS...

Edited March 26, 20251 yr by MERCURY127

14 minutes ago, MERCURY127 said:

no PROBLEMS.

But problem is here already without anything

Hi guys, a little update..

I tried to install Windows 95 OSR2 + FIX95CPU it works quite well no errors, even with the USB Legacy Option enabled.

But when I tried reinstalling Windows 98 SE again even with the patcher9x fix it still gave me the same hang, it cannot even boot to the UI if USB Legacy Option is enabled in the BIOS.

The installation also hungs if I just use HIMEMX, if I use JEMM386 then it will not hang and continued through the setup successfully.

try standard HIMEM.SYS with /MACHINE:AT switch...

On 3/30/2025 at 4:12 PM, MERCURY127 said:

try standard HIMEM.SYS with /MACHINE:AT switch...

Unfortunately still doesn't work...

Another thing I tried is this problem exists when I run Windows 98 Setup, press Continue and after the 1st loading progress bar, I hit cancel so I got back to DOS.

I tried doing stuff like "mem /c /p" a few times and when I left it around 30 seconds, it stops responding to any keyboard/touchpad events.