Dual Boot - Win98/WinXPpro - Win98SE won't recognise DVD ROM drive

[Guest]

I want to dual boot Win98SE with XPpro, and to do this I have to install
Win98SE first. I have a new machine with an ASUS P5B motherboard (Dual DDR,
S-ATA II, etc) and a clean HD which I have partitioned (4) and formatted to
FAT32.

Trouble is, Win98SE (and earlier OS's) won't recognise the fitted JMicron
JMB 363 PATA/SATA PCI Express IDE controller, and tells me there is no CD-ROM
drive fitted. The manufacturer's web site does not list any drivers for OS's
prior to WinXP.

Does anyone know of a suitable driver - or a work-around??

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

AFAIK, there is no way to get the JMicron SATA/PATA controllers to work with
any Win9x OS. Besides, with that new mobo, do you not also have a huge HD?
Over 137 GB? That, too, is a problem for Win9x.

Suggest you instead use Win98 in a Virtual PC (or VMWare) environment on a
Windows XP or 2000 or Vista host.

 

[Guest]

AFAIK, there is no way to get the JMicron SATA/PATA controllers to work with
any Win9x OS.

Thank you, that's a bummer...

Besides, with that new mobo, do you not also have a huge HD?
Over 137 GB? That, too, is a problem for Win9x.

Yes, but the Win98SE partition was going to be below 2GB, and there are
system.ini changes to allow for 1GB+ memory, none of which seems to matter
now!

Suggest you instead use Win98 in a Virtual PC (or VMWare) environment on a
Windows XP or 2000 or Vista host.

Thank you - I'll try to find this and install it

And sorry Gary about the double posting - I thought it was all one newsgroup
and was trying to catch people with either "Win98" or "WinXP" filters set...

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Good luck with VPC. It has some quirks, but serves very well for most
people.

 

[Lil' Dave]

I want to dual boot Win98SE with XPpro, and to do this I have to install
Win98SE first. I have a new machine with an ASUS P5B motherboard (Dual
DDR,
S-ATA II, etc) and a clean HD which I have partitioned (4) and formatted
to
FAT32.

Trouble is, Win98SE (and earlier OS's) won't recognise the fitted JMicron
JMB 363 PATA/SATA PCI Express IDE controller, and tells me there is no
CD-ROM
drive fitted. The manufacturer's web site does not list any drivers for
OS's
prior to WinXP.

Does anyone know of a suitable driver - or a work-around??

IF, IF, IF you can put in an ide controller card on your PC, connect the old
hard drive to that, configure the bios to boot from that card and drive,
98SE might work fine. Maybe a removable tray for the hard drive connected
to the ide controller card. I'd drop XP from it. Run XP from the SATA
drive. I hear repair install in the background.
Dave

 

[Guest]

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IF, IF, IF you can put in an ide controller card on your PC, connect the old
hard drive to that, configure the bios to boot from that card and drive,
98SE might work fine. Maybe a removable tray for the hard drive connected
to the ide controller card. I'd drop XP from it. Run XP from the SATA
drive. I hear repair install in the background.
Dave

Thank you - but your last sentence makes me nervous...! I was hoping
someone, somewhere, had written a DOS based driver that Win98SE could use to
talk to the PCI Express IDE controller, if not necessarily one made by
JMicron. After all, there are millions of us stick-in-the-muds still using
Win9x. Failing that, Gary's suggestion of Virtual PC must be the way to go.

 

[Bob I]

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Thank you - but your last sentence makes me nervous...! I was hoping
someone, somewhere, had written a DOS based driver that Win98SE could use to
talk to the PCI Express IDE controller, if not necessarily one made by
JMicron. After all, there are millions of us stick-in-the-muds still using
Win9x. Failing that, Gary's suggestion of Virtual PC must be the way to go.

The DVD should be connected to an IDE header, IDE channel supports 2
devices. Connect the drive to that.