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Posted by Nicholas Andrade on 02/28/06 19:43
Tonester wrote:
> "Roger" <noend7foot@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns977773F5449B0738@130.81.64.196...
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>>I'm looking for a DVD burner that will write and read most formats and
>>that
>>will run on an old system with a Pentium III 500 MHz and Win98SE. Anyone
>>have any suggestions? TIA.
>>
>>All the hardware I can find seems to be designed for systems running at
>>least Win2000 and with 800-900Mhz processors.
>>
>>To reply by email, remove the foot from my address.
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> You need at least Windows 2000 because you need NTFS. Windows 98 has a file
> size limitation of 2.1 gigs...DVD's are 4.3 gigs.
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I have never tried it, but there's a NTFS file system driver for Windows
98 available here: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsWindows98.html
I agree that it's in the original posters best interest to consider
upgrading to 2000 or XP (if they want to stay on the Windows side), but
this is a possible alternative. Win 2000 or XP will probably be
particularly sluggish on a P3 500, so if the original poster is
experimemntal I'd suggest giving Linux a shot. I run Fedora Core 2
(kernel 2.6.10) on a P3-m 400 with 256MB of RAM. I use a lightweight
window manager, Fluxbox, and it performs well enough; it's perfectly
capable of office functions (I use OpenOffice.org 1.1) and internet
browsing (I use Mozilla Suite 1.7.12). Although I don't have a
dvd-burner in that laptop (it's an ultralight), software wise it would
support it.
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