Win9x and SATA boot drive
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DNA
(551 messages posted)
The best way by far to install Win98 on a SATA boot drive is
to have the drive connected to a SATA-150 PCI controller card. When you do a fresh
install of Win9x on a bootable controller card (IDE, SCSI, SATA), you can install
the controller card drivers after Win9x is installed.
If you try to install Win98 directly to a drive connected to a SATA connector on
the motherboard, Win98 will not recognize any CD-ROM drives, and will be in MS-DOS
mode for hard drive access.
I have an ASUS A8V in my 3000+, and even though it has two SATA-150 ports, I have
a SATA-150 PCI controller card as well.
Install Win98 with the boot drive connected to the controller card (and the BIOS
set to boot from this card); after Win98 is installed, install the SATA drivers for
both the controller card and the motherboard, then you can connect the boot
drive to the motherboard SATA (and set the BIOS to boot from the onboard SATA).
Since the few mainboards that do have Win98 drivers for their onboard SATA
typically have only two SATA connectors, the controller card allows you to use two
more SATA drives (or, in my case, I added an eSATA bracket connected to the controller
card, permitting the use of two external "eSATA" hard drives!).
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Athlon 3000+ 939 - 1GB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro SP2
Athlon 4000+X2 AM2 - 3GB RAM = 2000 SP4 & XP Pro SP2
IBM ThinkPad PIII 933 - 512 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2
Windows 2000 Server in the basement
- Written in response to:
- Dvd-rw (toneyx: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 12:21 am)
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