My bios will recognize this drive, so if I use a partition utility to
break it up into 100gb paritions, can I use it on a 98se system?

specs say xp/vista. it's a passport 500gb.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=569

simplequestion wrote

> My bios will recognize this drive, so if I use a partition utility to
> break it up into 100gb paritions, can I use it on a 98se system?

98SE has limitations with drives over 137GB, and
breaking it up into 100GB partitions doesnt fix those.
http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm

You can just wear the fact that you cant use scandisk etc tho and
use something like Acronis Disk Director Suite for that instead.

> specs say xp/vista.

For that reason.

> it's a passport 500gb.

> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=569

simplequestion <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> My bios will recognize this drive, so if I use a partition utility to
> break it up into 100gb paritions, can I use it on a 98se system?

> specs say xp/vista. it's a passport 500gb.

> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=569

The problem is that 98se does not have sector access support
above 137GB or rather it wraps around and starts to overwrite
the beginning of the disk, typically resulting in complete
data loss. You can try with a single partition of 100GB at
the beginning, maybe it works, but it is risky.

Arno

Arno wrote:
> simplequestion <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> My bios will recognize this drive, so if I use a partition utility to
>> break it up into 100gb paritions, can I use it on a 98se system?
>
>> specs say xp/vista. it's a passport 500gb.
>
>> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=569
>
> The problem is that 98se does not have sector access support
> above 137GB or rather it wraps around and starts to overwrite
> the beginning of the disk, typically resulting in complete data loss.

Not with an EXTERNAL DRIVE.

> You can try with a single partition of 100GB at
> the beginning, maybe it works, but it is risky.

No need with an EXTERNAL DRIVE.

jj <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Arno wrote:
>> simplequestion <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> My bios will recognize this drive, so if I use a partition utility to
>>> break it up into 100gb paritions, can I use it on a 98se system?
>>
>>> specs say xp/vista. it's a passport 500gb.
>>
>>> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=569
>>
>> The problem is that 98se does not have sector access support
>> above 137GB or rather it wraps around and starts to overwrite
>> the beginning of the disk, typically resulting in complete data loss.

> Not with an EXTERNAL DRIVE.

>> You can try with a single partition of 100GB at
>> the beginning, maybe it works, but it is risky.

> No need with an EXTERNAL DRIVE.

Oh, I see. This is an USB drive, yes? That is something different
indeed. Whether extern or intern does not mater a bit though,
the interface makes the difference.

Arno

Arno wrote:
> jj <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Arno wrote:
>>> simplequestion <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>> My bios will recognize this drive, so if I use a partition utility
>>>> to break it up into 100gb paritions, can I use it on a 98se system?
>>>
>>>> specs say xp/vista. it's a passport 500gb.
>>>
>>>> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=569
>>>
>>> The problem is that 98se does not have sector access support
>>> above 137GB or rather it wraps around and starts to overwrite
>>> the beginning of the disk, typically resulting in complete data
>>> loss.
>
>> Not with an EXTERNAL DRIVE.
>
>>> You can try with a single partition of 100GB at
>>> the beginning, maybe it works, but it is risky.
>
>> No need with an EXTERNAL DRIVE.

> Oh, I see. This is an USB drive, yes?

USB and firewire.

> That is something different indeed. Whether extern or intern
> does not mater a bit though, the interface makes the difference.

True. In a practical sense tho all externals dont have the LBA48 problem.

jj <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Arno wrote:
>> jj <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> Arno wrote:
>>>> simplequestion <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>>> My bios will recognize this drive, so if I use a partition utility
>>>>> to break it up into 100gb paritions, can I use it on a 98se system?
>>>>
>>>>> specs say xp/vista. it's a passport 500gb.
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=569
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that 98se does not have sector access support
>>>> above 137GB or rather it wraps around and starts to overwrite
>>>> the beginning of the disk, typically resulting in complete data
>>>> loss.
>>
>>> Not with an EXTERNAL DRIVE.
>>
>>>> You can try with a single partition of 100GB at
>>>> the beginning, maybe it works, but it is risky.
>>
>>> No need with an EXTERNAL DRIVE.

>> Oh, I see. This is an USB drive, yes?

> USB and firewire.

>> That is something different indeed. Whether extern or intern
>> does not mater a bit though, the interface makes the difference.

> True. In a practical sense tho all externals dont have the LBA48 problem.

Well, given that SATA does not have them, and the others are
using the SCSI command set (i.e. "LBA32") you are right.

Arno