Posted by AZ Nomad on 02/28/06 05:08

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:08:07 GMT, Tonester <none@nospam.com> wrote:



>"Roger" <noend7foot@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:Xns977773F5449B0738@130.81.64.196...
>> 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.

>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.


fat16 had such a limit and was last seen on win95

fat32, introduced in the second win95 service pack (OSR-B) can handle 30 gigs or
so. It can handle larger partitions if you go with a larger than standard
cluster size.

The main problem with windows9x is that it's a complete piece of shit.

I suppose if you only ever ran one application it might remain stable
long enough to author a DVD.

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