needing to pick your brains.....

[B00tDisk]

Ahem.  Believe it or not, when I was very poor and couldn't afford computer equipment  I used to run '95 partially on an internal 170mb HD and on an external SCSI ZIP drive.  Wasn't the worst thing in the world.  Took quite a bit of hacking to do.

Anyway, to answer your question, the easiest way to do what you're trying to do is this:

Remove the drive from the case, install it locally on the IDE bus inthe system, install Win2k.

Copy your boot.ini onto a boot floppy with a set of "minimal" firewire drivers, redirect your boot.ini path to whatever the RDISK volume for your now externalized firewire drive is.

Should work.

[Jaruzel]

Copy your boot.ini onto a boot floppy with a set of "minimal" firewire drivers, redirect your boot.ini path to whatever the RDISK volume for your now externalized firewire drive is.

Not wishing to elongate this thread any longer, but I doubt if that will work.

a hacked boot.ini on the floppy will still not 'see' the firewire drive, and adding drivers to the floppy wont help either, as theres nothing there to use them.

There ARE custom Win2k/NT boot floppys you can build, but even then I'm pretty sure they only support IDE drives that for some reason the bios won't boot off of.

In short, If the bios wont boot off the firewire drive (ie, if fdisk from a bootable DOS floopy) can't see it  ( see http://www.freedos.org/ for more info. ) then you are out of luck. You need INT13 bios support, to boot.

-Jar.
 

[Mike_Amiga]

 :-x OUCH! STOP THAT!

:-x My brains are meant to be in my head, leave them alone!

 :-D

[Desmon]

@warpiper

Win98's DOS tools will rollover on a drive that big, but once you have it formatted the OS will see and use it.

I have a 120GB drive under Win98 and had to use Linux's fdisk then FreeDOS' format command to get it to play.

As for the Firewire drive, you can pretty much forget it. Win98 doesn't like removeable media much, and you'll probably never get  Win2Kpro to boot from it anyway.

My suggestion is to trash the Win98 installation and install Win2K there instead. I'm about to do the same thing, but need to find somewhere to put around 80GB of video before I convert the bigger drive to NTFS.

 Cache Ya,
 Craig.

[mikeymike]

Guys, he's talking about Win2k, not Win98!  They're completely different!