Old PC running Win98

scubagal · #1 04-12-2005, 04:04 PM

I brought home an older PC (200mhz) home to play with. I found that it has 2 hard drives in it, 1-2Gig and 1-8Gig. I am assuming that the 8Gig was added on for more capacity. Would it be better for me to leave it as is, or take out the 2 Gig, add a little RAM and put Me on the 8Gig drive? It won't get used for more than web surfing. Just asking. Thanks for any input.

Also, it has a CD-ROM drive and a CDRW drive, 64MB RAM. How does this dual hard drives and dual CD-ROM drives affect the RAM?

MJaeson · #2 04-12-2005, 04:35 PM

In my opinion 98 is far better than ME, with a lot less bugs

98SE is the perfected form of 95
While ME is the first attempt to create Win2k and XP that's why it's more buggy

I suggest making the larger hard drive the MASTER hard drive so when installing programs you don't have to always change the default drive letter to D or something else.

More Memory is always better unless you go over 512which would be useless for Windows98

With this much stuff inside a PC it is best to have a good power supply with atleast 200+Watts

Hope this helps... Goodluck

scubagal · #3 04-12-2005, 04:39 PM

Thanks, I'll give it a whirl. I don't have a copy of 98SE unfortunately, but I do have Me. I can try to dig one up though. I tried to format C drive in DOS but it wouldn't let me, neither would doing it thru Windows. Why, if I have a boot disk with the format command, would it not allow to format?

MJaeson · #4 04-12-2005, 04:49 PM

You can only format (inside Windows) hard drives which do not contain the Operating System. Just go with your thought of getting a bootdisk with the format command and don't forget the "/u" option.

http://bootdisk.com

Hope it helps...

Also the memory is for anti-spyware, anti-virus, (and firewall if you plan to use broadband) programs you will load. If you need some good free programs just holler. Goodluck

(I also have an old P2 which I use to play "Emulator Games" )