Thank you one and all for the advice and suggestions.

In reply to Don's question, I do have a CD-ROM drive. But I have assigned that to 
drive F: in Windows, by using the Device Manager's option to set a drive letter for 
that device. And Windows is recognising the CD-ROM drive as F: in Explorer.

In reply to Keith's post and gewg's post, I didn't use FDISK to setup the new hard 
disk. I knew that the Win98 tools were not up to the job, so I used the program that 
Western Digital supplied, called "Data Lifeguard Tools 11.2 for DOS".

That program handled both the partitioning of the disk and the formatting of all 
three partitions: C, D and E. The Win98 tools FDISK and FORMAT were never involved.

Windows does recognise the drive E: partition, in Safe Mode. And it is accessible 
in Safe Mode. I can copy files to it, read them, and delete them. And it does also 
recognise that partition in protected mode (normal startup mode), but the partition 
is not accessible there.







On Friday, February 1, 2008 at 9:14 am, gewg_ wrote:

>80GB is within W98's abilities--but not the ancient utilities that came with it.

>The hexff link Keith included is the most readable page I have found on this. 
>href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ukgGylGxghIJ:www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php+137GB+127GB+Windows.98.*.98SE+updating-*-*-*-program+Copyright+*-*-these-*-overflow-when-the-drive-size-is-*-*-*-larger-than-64GB+*-display-the-drive-size+FDISK-*-*-*-FORMAT-*-*+SCANDISK-*-DEFRAG+minus-64GB">

>cache of http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php

>

>

>Keith,

>You are back to that weird formatting technique on your posts

>where blockquotes get stripped for subsequent responders.

>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum_post/win98/post?1201869448

>You should delete the boilerplate you are using.
 

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