On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:12:04 -0400, Paul wrote:

There is a size limit, but it's complicated. For a modern

That sure is complicated !!!!

Before i buy an add-on board, I'll just buy a used 120g HD. They're
cheap these days. I dont see the need for anything bigger. I have darn
near filled up the 160G (2 drives) on my W98 machine, but that's because
I store everything on it. I have around 5000 songs, at least 1000
videos, everything I've downloaded since the early 90's and saved, and
many years of photos. I just recently bought a 500g and a 1tb USB
external drives, and all that stuff is going to get moved to them. I
really dont see the need for more than 160g, as long as I dont store all
that stuff on it. I'll probably keep the music on the HD though,
because those USB drives cant be accessed from W98, so I'd have to keep
booting to W2K to listen to the songs. -OR- use the XP computer, which
means I need two sets of speakers, which is already getting too
cluttered with 2 systems.

I probably will make that bigger drive into 4 partitions anyhow. Having
one huge drive tends to get very fragmented. I have one 5g partition on
my W98, just for my newsreader. Because I save lots of messages, that
tends to get more fragmented than anything else on the computer. But
that tiny partition can be defragegd in 2 or 3 minutes.

Anyhow, I'll save that 160g drive for the next computer I make, which
will be a newer processor and MB.

Thanks