Win 98 install on newer hardware

[MARSTG]

How do I install a Win98 on a SATA hard drive, that is also over the 137GB limit? I have a very fast Samsung Spinpoint F4 320GB HDD that I intend to use. Chipsets like Intel 865PE and even Intel 915 I have seen on Intel support website still have Win98 drivers while most commercial systems (HP, Compaq, IBM) are based on Intel 845 and 865G. But how would I go installing Win98 to a newer hardware spec system? The reason is that I want to play old games with a Voodoo card and simply running in Virtual Box does not cut the mustard as you cannot use the DirectX/Glide functions. From what I understood I need to boot with an updated Fdisk first and format the drive or at least make partion the HDD first. I guess this step can be easily performed by formatting the target under another OS before, from simple disk management utilities with and just make sure they are done in FAT32?

[lcdguy]

umm not sure if this would work. If i were you i would first checkout gog.com to see if any of the old games you want to playa re in their catalog and buy them (pretty cheap $5-$10 usually) as they are retooled to run on newer operating systems. also if they are dos based games you should try dosbox as well.

[Adzsask]

Steam also has some of my fave old games like X com UFO defense, I like the steam ports, push play it launched dosbox for you and the game works every time.

[sswilson]

In all honesty, it's probably easier to pick up a $60 P4 tower from kijiji.

[MARSTG]

Originally Posted by sswilson

In all honesty, it's probably easier to pick up a $60 P4 tower from kijiji.

that was plan A actually. For my gf I see they have Ultima VII that runs under Win7 directly, but I don't see the likes of Carmageddon or NFS series for me. I am at work also and a lot of stuff is blocked, will check more at home.

[JD]

Although maybe not the best of ideas, you could install it to a VM first, install some sort of image capture utility, maybe CloneZilla? Then once you have a disk image of the VM, just dump it onto the hard drive.

[botat29]

So bad WMware WorkStation cost $ 200, it as a terrific 3D acceleration, look at the Windows index of a Windows 8 VM ( 9 on 9.9 ) for the GPU ( GTX580 )

[BlueByte]

This doesn't make it hurt any less but you can get workstation on some pretty wicket deals. I think I paid $120 for my copy, just have to keep an eye out for it. But for this, sswilson has the cheaper route I think.

[MARSTG]

I am in the process of getting a 60$ P4 tower from Craigslist, from one of my neighbors. Fully equipped and has a Geforce 6200 on it. I think there would be a way of installing onto a SATA drive by pressing F3 at the beginning like for a SCSI drive/controller and provide the drivers on a floppy disk. This issue is addressed way more elegantly in WinXP by slip streaming the drivers with nLite but these were the times then I guess so not much we can do.

[lowfat]

Set the SATA mode to IDE. You shouldn't need any drivers that way.