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re: Hard drive shows in BIOS but not in Windows
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6033 messages posted)
Yup, Win 98 doesn't like more than 512 meg of RAM. You have to do some modifications.
(look down a little in this forum as they were posted again, or see below) There
is no easy way to add the drivers at this pointfor W2K. See here if you are brave:
http://www.motherboard.windowsreinstall.com/problems.htm
If W2K's original drive letter has changed, you have no choice but to do a repair
install. Everything in the registry is wrong so Windows won't know where to find
anything. Doesn't effect Win 9X due to always being on drive C by design.
Problems with Win 9X on new hardware:
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.php
On Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 5:56 pm, Malcolm Fowler wrote:
>Hi CK,Thanks for the quick response... I understand what you are saying - just
>didn't know this before I started! - problem is that the old M/B had completely
died
>so it is not possible to reboot with the old mother board to recover drivers etc.. Looks
>like a repair install is the only option however I was trying to avoid this as this
>upgrade/repair is meant to be a surprise for my son and I didn't want to have to
>ask him for his 2000 disk!! I understand there may be a way round this using a boot
>disk and manually installing the correct IDE drivers (?) I'm running the IDE in
>DMA mode I had not considered an excess of RAM for 98SE - could this be why I
have
>been getting "not enough memory" messages?! As always the best intentioned and
>"simple" upgrades (I was just passing on my second hand board/processor and memory
>after upgrading my own machine) result in many frustrations.... Thanks again
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