re: external hard drive for W98SE up to XP
Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|I bought a iomega 160B external hard USB 2.0 and after I got home...
| Raymond A. Shinn
|
Poor planning on your part.
|...I found out the requirements are Windows 2000 and up.
|
Did it not say that ON THE BOX?
|No good for W98SE
|..need...extra storage with W98SE, 2000, ME, and XP.
|
froogle?intitle:external-hard-drive+USB-2.0+98SE+160-GB+OR+200-GB
froogle?intitle:external-hard-drive+USB-2.0+98SE+160GB+OR+200GB
Why did you feel the need to include an ad for your ISP?
Do you actually think that putting plain text into the QuickLink dialog
automagically converts it into a valid link?
[Reply or follow-up to this message]
|
re: external hard drive for W98SE up to XP
Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Posted by Richard Harris
(270 messages posted)
I am not sure why IMOEGA is limiting the hard drive applicability, since win98SE
can certainly support USB 2.0 hard drives. Perhaps they simply did not want to bother
developing a driver?
Look into other external hard drive brands, including the relatively cheap store
brands, such as those sold at CompuUSA and Circuit City. Consider the option of
buying a USB enclosure and placing a common IDE drive within it. Sometimes the enclosure+drive
are cheaper than a pre-assembled USB drive. Look for sales.
However, restrict the drive size to 120 Gig or less. 127 Gig is a sort of magic
number for all windows home systems before XP, and even then XP needs SP-1 for larger
drives.
If the hard drive does not come with a CD containing drivers, you will need to download
them from the manufacture's website. (If a USB enclosure, go to that website, not
the one for the IDE hard drive that goes inside of it.) XP should not need drivers
for an external USB 2.0 drive, but 98SE will. ME may also need drivers, but they
might be different than the ones for 98SE, or maybe the same. I do not know whether
2000 will need drivers, but if it does, they will certainly be different than those
fof 98. Still, all these driver options should be clear from the website. Hint:
pick a potential USB drive, then check the associated website for drivers, before
buying it.
Finally, format the drive as FAT32. XP can handle FAT32 and NTFS, but 98 and ME
can only handle FAT32.
On Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at 12:23 pm, Raymond A. Shinn wrote:
>I bought a iomega 160B external hard USB 2.0 and after I got home I found out the
>requirements are Windows 2000 and up. No good for W98SE so, I attached it to my
>XP computer. Still need the extra storage with W98SE, 2000, ME, and XP. Any suggestions?
>SBC Yahoo
[Reply or follow-up to this message]
|
re: external hard drive for W98SE up to XP
Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|[IOMEGA]...Perhaps they simply did not want to bother developing a driver
| Richard Harris
|
Seems brain-dead doesn't it?
For a few man-hours of coding time they could have a nice bump in their sales numbers.
|127 Gig is a sort of magic number
|
Yup.
|...restrict the drive size to 120 Gig or less.
|
Substitute *partition* for *drive* and I'll agree.
The limit on the DRIVE is 512GB. cache of
http://www.pcfixzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=hdd_cat,v=print,m=1106499563,a=1
+137GB+127GB+512GB
|Hint: pick a potential USB drive,
|then check the associated website for drivers, before buying it.
|
It seems so obvious when you hear somebody else say it.
Why does no one work this out for himself?
[Reply or follow-up to this message]
|
