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Thanks Bryan, I'll give it a try then with the ME. At $10 for the upgrade, I couldn't pass the thing up.
The big drives thing with Win 98 is not so much a BIOS issue,
even with a BIOS that has no problems seeing a large drive
correctly and ID'ing it, Win 98SE will fail to work right with
drives over 60 gigs usually, formatted FAT32.
Scandisk, defrag and also just copying files to or from the drive
can result in the whole thing hanging, but the fix is a M/soft patch
for Win98SE and then things seem to work fine.
I first ran into it with a Maxtor 80 gig drive, and Maxtor alerted me to it when I first had set up the drive using their utility.
I usually still set them up with FDISK, but didn't that time.
Turned out Maxtor had a new version (out now) but in replying to me they brought up the issue and pointed me to the MS patch for it.
I have the patch on all the machines now, since I am often swapping drives between systems. We have a bunch of drives from 20 to 80 gigs so can keep all a project's data on a drive for some time while client reviews it and then comes back for changes etc.
Hope all's well there with all of you, say hi to everyone for me.
Rich
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