WinME max requirements

[Guest proteanthread]

What is the maximum hard drive size WinME can handle without

partitioning? What's the maximum amount of memory that I can install

in WinME?

[Guest Mike M]

Re: WinME max requirements

 

Win Me has problems with drives larger than 137GB due to not supporting

48-bit LBA (which was only partially implemented in XP SP1 (Sept? 2002)

and not fully until XP SP2 (August 2004).

 

Win Me, like all Win 9x operating systems, can support and use up to 2GB

of memory although there are a number of caveats and exceptions to that

details of which are contained in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base

articles with the first essential reading where more than 512MB of memory

is installed.

 

For more details see:

MS KB 253912 - ""Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM

Installed" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=253912). The reason is that

allocating more than 512MB of RAM to vcache will exhaust all available

upper memory addresses and thus prevent them being used for other

purposes. This problem is easily fixed as follows:

To limit vcache, open system.ini and add the lines

[VCache]

MaxFileCache=512000

Note that this will still mean that all memory is available to

applications but is simply limiting the amount used as virtual cache

memory.

 

MS KB 296773 - "Computer May Not Hibernate with More Than 192 MB of

Memory"

(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=296773). This makes reference to an

updated file vmm.vxd. Unfortunately due to Win Me being out of support

this file can no longer be obtained from Microsoft.

 

MS KB 304943 - "Computer May Reboot Continuously with More Than 1.5 GB of

RAM" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=304943).

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com

 

 

proteanthread <rtdos@rtdos.com> wrote:

> What is the maximum hard drive size WinME can handle without

> partitioning? What's the maximum amount of memory that I can install

> in WinME?

[Guest proteanthread]

Re: WinME max requirements

 

On Feb 20, 4:37 pm, "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote:

> Win Me has problems with drives larger than 137GB due to not supporting

> 48-bit LBA (which was only partially implemented in XP SP1 (Sept? 2002)

> and not fully until XP SP2 (August 2004).

>

> Win Me, like all Win 9x operating systems, can support and use up to 2GB

> of memory although there are a number of caveats and exceptions to that

> details of which are contained in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base

> articles with the first essential reading where more than 512MB of memory

> is installed.

>

 

 

Am I to assume that these specs can also apply to Win98SE?

[Guest Mike M]

Re: WinME max requirements

 

proteanthread <rtdos@rtdos.com> wrote:

> Am I to assume that these specs can also apply to Win98SE?

 

Yes.