Windows 98 Builds

Edited by cryptodan, 02 February 2022 - 10:33 AM.

Consider the following:

PCI Sata Controller

PCI IDE atapi cd-rom Controller

Onboard realtek audio Driver

PCI NEC chip based usb 2.0 card and nuseb36 driver

PCI 10/100 Network Card

Not one that win98 will like........No native driver support....too new.

So No On-board IDE.. Disable in bios

Once it's disabled.....no issue with (windows) 32 protected mode disk drivers.

I will provide windows with the appropriate drivers for the PCI ultra 100 card.....

Board has an n-force chipset....so I'm not sure the "ATA/dma/48bit-lba Patch" will work with it's onboard ide.

I want to avoid using any patches......except for the  1 gig sysyem.ini memory mod.

Patches can be accidently overwritten.

Uh,..........All OS's.......MSDOS forward recognize the isa/pci bus.........that's pretty basic. Windows 98 even installs pci-e graphics with-out chipset drivers.WOW! I mean really?

Posted 15 July 2022 - 10:15 PM

Although it took a huge amount of time and effort and a bit of greenbacks to boot, but I finally got my 1960's era Exacto vertical Mill CNC retrofitted. From not even knowing such a retrofit system existed five years ago to actually having one working on my Dad's trusty old mill was quite a learning experience. Many thanks to my local Servo2 supplier in Largo Florida and of course Servo2 "Central" in Stockton Kansas who supplied me with scrounged up parts, repairs, documentation, software and knowledge.

Followers of our site here of course chimed in with tips on dual booting and building my "Stand alone" DOS legacy machine to run this antiquated system.  I needed the dual boot ability to have some sort of "Modern" file handling system via USB drives and Windows Explorer. Windows 98SE modern?!? HeHaHeHa LOL. Oh well.

Just a thought. Windows 98SE mainly uses FAT32 and DOS 7.1,  DOS 6.2 can only read FAT12 and FAT16 formatted disks and drives, not FAT32. 

Are your floppies formatted FAT32?

Hey JohnC,

Thanks!! Might be just the thing I was looking for. I know I formatted the USB sticks in FAT 32. for better compatibility between My MacOS which I use on this type of communication (Forum Internet) which my  Windows 98SE will never be allowed to do. I will check the Floppies and see what they are formatted in. First have tp learn the DOS command to query that. I do have the OEM DOS 6.2 User's guide...

Hope you are right.

"There's always light at the end of the tunnel"

              "Even if only starlight..."

@cryptodan was asking how the floppies were formatted in your other thread. Missed that thread. I posted here first. 

Thanks guys;

Did not try the Fdisk coomand / query yet. Could not figure out how to get the command to work if the system will not even read the floppies in DOS...Duhhh?!?! why don't I just switch over to the WIndows 98SE Boot and read the drive then click on properties while in Windows..

ok found out the floppies are FAT but does not say FAT 12 / 16 / 0r 32. but from what I undersyand the # associated with the FAT nomenclature refers to size and the size is 1,457,664 bytes 1.38 Mg

 saw somewhere where the size breakdown to FAT # is have to find it again.

thanks

If you formatted the floppies in Windows 98 then I would have to think the file system would default to Fat32. 

Read today that "DOS 1.0 and 2.0 used FAT12. The maximum possible size of a FAT12 filesystem (volume) was 8MB."

also further on "DOS 3.0 introduced FAT16" and finally, FAT32 was introduced in Windows 95 OSR 2. This makes me wonder why Windows 98 SE would have resorted to using a Floppy disk file system from a 1984 release of DOS 3.0.

So puzzling.

Also read in another source "For more information on using FDISK and other fixed-disk commands, refer to Chapter 3, Using Fixed Disks.

Option
/status - Displays an overview of the partition information for your hard disk(s), without starting the Fdisk program. (New with DOS Version 6.)

I believe that relates to "fixed discs" as in Hard Drives? maybe not floppies.

Think I may take a floppy into the WIndows side and try and use the format command with different /1 /4 /8 switches and see if The dos side can read, write, use any of them .