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[The Fifth Horseman]

Here it's a pretty rapid case, as the HDD had only 2 badsectors appearing a few months ago.

But hey, it remained functional through 11 years of use and abuse - and until recently, without any flaws.
Show me a modern HDD that will last that long.

[win98]

Thats long my1998 quatrinum HDD is still going but with 10 bad sectors it is a no no.

[The Fifth Horseman]

All the better argument for going oldschool, don't you agree?

[win98]

Yip I agree. Just for the humour I live i n an english speaking country yesterday I bought a New 14" TV to replace the one I keep by my PC. The old one broke.
I always keep one here If I want to watch somthing while defraging the HDD.
The instructions were in Japanese. I got it working after 4 hours but sheesh. note to self never buy Tv from import shop. :roflol:

[Red Sandwich]

Originally posted by win98@Mar 10 2006, 06:04 PM
Thats long my1998 quatrinum HDD is still going but with 10 bad sectors it is a no no.

Not necessarily. ALL hard disks have bad sectors. Mostly you don't get to notice them because the internal drive logic moves the data to spare sectors and marks the old ones off so that they are not used again. It's only when the drive cannot recover the data or when it runs out of spare sectors that you get to become aware of them.

You should be able to deal with 10 bad sectors using SCANDISK or a similar program. It's only when the rate at which bad sectors are found keeps on increasing that you should junk the drive ASAP.

[blastradius14]

If you have a Windows 98SE os, you don't want a bigger than 20 gigabyte harddrive, as the internal workings of the OS will slowly corrupt its own files. My 160gb one had a field day when I tried playing games, LOL time for windows XP :crazy:

Windows 95 can only handle up to 2gb! But, for old games, it works just fine k:

You can partition a second drive into lots of tiny pieces to use as cd drives for games like Crusader: No Remorse. That way you don't even have to think when loading it up, no loading cd drivers or nothing


I used to have a 133mhz compaq that I ran dos-games on. It was great, and it even had an experimental AGP slot on it. The AGP worked, and it even liked my card that I put in it (16mb, 4x card) but the thing didn't work so well, as I hard to completely shut power off to the MB in order to get the card to shut off :crazy:
It had an on-board ESS audio like the laptop I had, and both Tyrian and Crusader were happy with it. I had both serial and ps2 mice, no that was never a problem for me, as well as both keyboards. The ESS was compatible with both Roland and Soundblaster, and I could make it play with both with the windows sound config system when I wanted to. Of course, most of the games I want to play sound more like midi on roland, and I like the more soundblasterish sounds instead of mutilated musical instrument sounds of midi LOL

My old 800 mb hdd died completely a few years ago, so I was using a 2gb hdd until the computer itself had a major motherboard malfunction (mostly due to the abuse of tinkering over the course of 3 years) and the AGP rigging. What's awesome is my uncle has a box with the same set up (that flat compaq box) that I have grown used to (had an acer in the same way) that he says I can mess with.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Uhh... you sure about that?
I had been using W98SE with a 32 GB HDD for data (OS running off a 4 GB one) and now it's 40 & 80 (Windoze on 40), with ~65 GB on the 80 GB HDD used as a FAT-32 partition (earlier 15 are occupied by Linux partitions).

[win98]

Windows95c or b should not go with more than 4GB HDD they can handle more but these days windows98se is so cheap it is a bad idea.

[Grinder]

Man, I missed some stuff while my connection was broken. I'm still thinking about the DOS PC thing...gotta get myself some cash...

[win98]

Far out my PC suddenly disconnected yesterday I played around and then for a random reason it was suddenly working. Stupid Windows XP and stpuid ISP turns out some egghead crashed ther server by tring to download about 10000 things at once.This is what I see on the ISP website I think yeah right.