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re: how to install windows 98 in SATA drives
Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 5:58 pm
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Posted by Richard Harris (258 messages posted)


Even XP has no native support for SATA drives.  But, XP has an installation option 
to add drivers for SATA, SCSI, RAID, etc.  This is the famous "F6" trick.  Unfortunately, 
I have not heard that 98 has a similar option.

However, if you settle for 98 on an plain IDE drive, then it might be possible to 
connect the SATA drive as a secondary drive, such as for data, or maybe even the 
98 swapfile.  See the following article about adding an SATA drive ot an existing 
PC:

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,111654,pg,8,00.asp

Here is another article that suggests it is possible, at least on some motherboards:

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2005/01/24/stories/2005012400200400.htm

Note that the "drivers" go with the disk controller, usually on the motherboard, 
and thus come from the motherboard maker.  They do not come form the hard drive maker. 
 If the motherboard maker offer 98 drivers, then they probably also provide advice 
on how to install them.





On Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 10:29 pm, dhomzo wrote:
>i format my SATA drives in fat32 format and install windows 98 when installing processed
>window 98 installed in my drives and restarting for checking hard drive attached
>in my computer when comes to Hard Disk Drive the installation will hang and windows
>will not continue for booting to windows 98 until any suggestion. thanks i hope
>you can help.
>
>coz i think SATA drives has a big problem in window 98



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how to install windows 98 in SATA drives (dhomzo: Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 10:29 pm)

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-how to install windows 98 in SATA drives (dhomzo: Wed, Mar 8, 2006, 10:29 pm)
*re: how to install windows 98 in SATA drives (bob wells: Wed, Mar 8, 2006, 11:24 pm)
*re: how to install windows 98 in SATA drives (Richard Harris: Thu, Mar 9, 2006, 5:58 pm)
*re: how to install windows 98 in SATA drives (Richard Harris: Thu, Mar 9, 2006, 6:11 pm)
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