How to install win98 on sata hdd

If your hardware doesn't support it, why would you want to install Win98 anyway? Makes no sense. Find an older system that will support Win Thank you. Clearly the original question has already been answered.

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Please remember to be considerate of other members. All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. I think most people should forget the idea of installing win on portable PC's because lack of proper drivers for the WIFI adapter, followed by lack of drivers for the chipset and video components.

If you have a portable PC that has acceptible driver support for win, then that portable PC is probably so old and under-powered that it's not worth lugging around. But your question in confusing. You mention that your main problem is with an "older notebook".

But later you think you should be getting more IDE drives before they're gone - which leads me to believe that you think you can substitute an IDE drive for a sata drive in a notebook pc. When it comes to Win and SATA drives, the issue of compatibility or functionality is not really with the drive, but with the controller.

You need to be able to find win drivers for the SATA controller, regardless if the controller is integrated into the motherboard or comes as an add-on PCI card.

So you need to tell us what your primary computing devices are. Are they desktop PC's or are they portable laptops or notebooks? I would suggest you confine your search to motherboards or PC's that date to between and The computer I'm typing this on has an Intel based chipset and was made in or This includes a , , and gb SATA hard drive.

OK, thanks for all the info everyone I will have to check each one out. I can still buy IDE hard drives just going to have to hunt around for them. At the time the larger drives were still high in price Chipset: Intel My Dell notebook is also around that time frame, it has an Intel based chipset Pentium 3.

I appreciate your help I will just look around for some IDE drives I have some large USB external drives that I can use for storage and large downloads. I just didn't know how these notebook drives had changed since Newegg has those 80 GB drives but I'd like a couple of larger drives I should have started looking this time last year for these older type drives.

Well, if your machines have SATA connectors, the intel Application Accelerator driver should have you covered, since you have intel chipsets in both of them. Last year I came across the Intel Application Accelerator while at the Intel website looking for any chipset updates. I didn't fully understand what it was or would do but since it was listed to also be for Windows 98SE, I downloaded it and installed it. This is the description provided by Intel:.

The Intel Application Accelerator is designed to improve performance of the storage sub-system and overall system performance. This software delivers improved performance through several ingredient technologies components. Certain components will be available only on Pentium 4 processor-based systems running Microsoft Windows and Windows XP. As I said, I didn't fully understand what it was supposed to do on my notebooks but I figured it would hurt anything and I was curious what it might actually do.

I was thinking it might make "flash drives" work faster. So you are saying this application would be necessary to be able to use a SATA hard drive. Intel also said that ver 2. Note: Mobile chipset support was removed from Intel Application Accelerator version 2. Version 2. The files above contain the Intel Application Accelerator. Well, thanks for the additional info That was the last time I bought any internal hard drives I bought that NEC in and was surprised later on to find out it had that older chipset I didn't know very much about chipsets It had an Intel Pentium 3 inside and at that time that was still "state of the art" or close, so I was expecting a "faster" computer, that's all I knew back then When I learned more about "chipsets" later on I was wondering myself why the older chipset I usually just run CPUz for any "quick" information I might want and Everest I will run when I need more detailed or just more information.

DaveSimmons Elite Member. Aug 12, 40, JBT Lifer. Nov 28, 12, 0 I was pretty sure it couldn't anyways. Thanks for the quick replies! Still no luck with experimenting on my own. The computer does see the drive I hope that means my motherboard works with it! Lucky for me, I don't have a floppy drive on the computer! Foiled again. All this DOS and Drivers and so forth. Such fun! I think the easiest way for you to get around this problem is to just temporarily install an IDE optical drive.

Bar81 Banned. Mar 25, 1, 0 0. Well, unfortunately that's something that's a side effect of the early stage of SATA optical devices. First off, a bunch of controllers won't recognize the SATA opticals and even those that do, even fewer will allow a SATA optical to be a bootable device. Sounds like a plan! I'll give it a whirl and let you guys know what comes up. Oh, by the way Neither my mobo manufacturer nor the manufacturer of the optical drive have them on their motherboards.

I'll run up to my friendly neighboorhood Best Buy and pick up my goodies - let me know if you guys know where I can find my drivers! HappyCracker Senior member. Mar 10, 3 Now I might be wrong here, but I looked into that drive some time ago. I think the SATA must be native to the chipset. Thats kinda what I was thinking that they weren't supported But he says the BIOS sees it? I think the only drivers you'll need are the SATA controller drivers though.

Not anything from plextor etc. I'm not even sure this would work. Luckily for me, I don't want to use XP. I want 98se. Why you ask?

I want DOS really really bad Maybe I'm asking the wrong questions! I'm a fairly seasoned system builder, but this is my first time delving into the nightmare that is SATA. In the one night I've spent fooling around with the system, it appears as though the SATA is actually some kind of afterthought tacked onto the board and it doesn't see the drives as PATA. So, with that in mind, I'll rephrase my question I'll just pop it out once the system is go.

What do I have to do to run Windows 98SE on this computer? Dec 13, 7, 0 Sata isn't faster than PATA anyway, the only real advantage to it right now is the smaller cables.