[Comrade General]

Okay, so I've heard 98 can't run on with a SATA hard drive.. It has a lot of issues and crap.. Is this true? Is it impossible? I really want to play my older games and I got a 98 CD but I've already tried and it just doesn't work... Is there anyway I can do this? =/

(I found out later 2 GB RAM didn't help either. )

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Well theres no point in downgrading to windows 98 if you have XP cause most games now only run on XP like BF2. Have you tryed right clicking on the shortcut and going on properties and then compatabilty then you can set it to run in windows 98 mode.

as long as you can get the drivers for SATA for windows 98 then i dont see why not.

[rumble291]

Well theres no point in downgrading to windows 98 if you have XP cause most games now only run on XP like BF2. Have you tryed right clicking on the shortcut and going on properties and then compatabilty then you can set it to run in windows 98 mode.

as long as you can get the drivers for SATA for windows 98 then i dont see why not.

[Comrade General]

Well theres no point in downgrading to windows 98 if you have XP cause most games now only run on XP like BF2. Have you tryed right clicking on the shortcut and going on properties and then compatabilty then you can set it to run in windows 98 mode.

as long as you can get the drivers for SATA for windows 98 then i dont see why not.

If you're a C&C fan you'll know the pain. Compat mode doesn't cut it. Besides, I plan to dual-boot.

And okay. Wait... I never think my hard drive came with drivers, it was OEM. Can I get them from their website? I looked at Seagate's website and I don't see drivers. :S

Edited by Comrade General, 02 August 2006 - 11:16 AM.

[rumble291]

Yeah, you dont get drivers from the HDD site u get them from the motherboard companys site.

[Neil Jones]

98 can run on a SATA hard drive, but you need to set up the BIOS in such a way as to work with the SATA drive in RAID mode. Setting it to non-IDE mode doesn't cut the mustard I'm afraid.

It might be worth just sticking a copy of Virtual PC on, installing 98SE into that and then seeing how you go from there.

[Comrade General]

98 can run on a SATA hard drive, but you need to set up the BIOS in such a way as to work with the SATA drive in RAID mode. Setting it to non-IDE mode doesn't cut the mustard I'm afraid.

It might be worth just sticking a copy of Virtual PC on, installing 98SE into that and then seeing how you go from there.

I've already tried VM and I really don't like it. Also the BIOS thing sounds like a hassle..

I guess I can just buy a 2 GB IDE hard drive cheap. meh.