Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:43:18 +0100
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto HD Upgrade - Hibernation Area - Questions
Raymond wrote:
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:53:13 +1100
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto HD Upgrade - Hibernation Area - Questions
and
Hi Raymond:
Sounds like a plan but I think you may have a couple of issues.
I think Win98 is one of those operating systems that needs the drive
overlay to work properly on the Libretto otherwise it can't see above
the 8G mark (or can't see it properly or something - it was a while ago
but I remember headaches in that area).
I'm afraid I have to disagree here.
Even plain DOS can see all of my 60 GB HD inside my Lib110, w/o drive
overlay - as long as the extended partition type is 0x0f rather than
0x05 and the partition scheme (MBR) has been cooked in a modern desktop.
Using DOS / Win98 FDISK in a desktop, the 0x0f type is default so no
worries there.
(0x0f apparently signals DOS to invoke int13 extensions.)
The second issue you may have is AFAIK Win98's implementation of FAT32
doesn't work for partitions over 32GB due to its limit on cluster size
so you'll need to split your 91GB'odd chunk of space into at least 3
partitions (unless you want to install, say, Win2k which in my
experience responds somewhat faster than 98 anyway on the L100, perhaps
due to better memory management).
I'm afraid you mix up things here too.
Perhaps you're right for Win95. But Win98 is quite happy with huge FAT32
partitions.
It is Win2000 & XP that refuse to format partitions > 32 GB with FAT32,
they insist on NTFS. For no good reason, as they happily read FAT32 on
>32 GB partitions.
See:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=184006
&
http://www.allensmith.net/Storage/HDDlimit/FAT32.htm
for some limits.
Philip
Good luck!
- Raymond
