22-09-2004, 05:33 AM
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    Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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Look, it doesn't matter how large you partition your drive, only that it is either FAT16 (in case of pure DOS - pre Win98) or FAT32 (in case of win98). The fact is that DOS does not see the NTFS partitions so it cannot see a harddrive.
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24-09-2004, 11:39 PM
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  Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Valleyfield, Canada
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We are talking about OLD DOS games, isn't? You know, those who used to have at max 10 floppies disk of 1.4 megs each?????
How would one gig not be enough?  For newer games who fit on CD, you can probably manage to make them run on Win98 with very few problems. |
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25-09-2004, 12:27 AM
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Location: Dentergem, Belgium
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I'm using Win98SE myself and have trouble booting any of these games on it. Am trying to get this P1 working, using my old 4GB HD. BIOS recognizes it, and it's the only HD that seems to pass booting with a boot disk, but can't access it either. Shall I hook it up to my Win98 comp and format it?
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25-09-2004, 02:08 AM
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One thing to note on older PC's make sure they arent using a program such as EZBIOS, if you are booting directly from a floppy will not work, it will appear to start up and take you to an A:\ prompt but the C:\ drive wont be accessible. You have to let the PC begin to start and push a specific button to boot from the a:\ drive then insert the disk
Programs like this were used to get around BIOS limitations and allow larger Hard Drives |
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