What size HDD for a DOS Build?

Soldato
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I have been looking at 120GB, and I think that's ample.

I haven't installed Windows 98 since it came out so not sure of the size, plus a few games on floppy/cd rom.

Also the last thing I forgot to buy as I was just assembling the bloody PC now! typical..
 
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For Windows 98 that's more than enough, overkill if you ask me. Fairly sure a full install of Windows doesn't even take up half a gig and the games from that era are tiny.

Windows 98 did have a max HDD size it could support of 120gb (I think)
 
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40Gb will be huge for Win 98, I remember when I 1st started building Win 98 machines the disks were 4.2Gb, they did eventually get up to 12Gb (I think this was a plateau for the original NTFS format) and when 20Gb came out everyone didn't think we'd fill them.
 
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If it helps I have a 16GB SSD (compactflash card in CF/PATA adaptor) as the only drive in my DOS/98 PC (well, except the FDD) and it's nowhere near full.
 
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As above, I'd use a CF card, 16GB will be plenty. Or just use any harddrive and partition it so that it is short-stroking for nippy speeds.
 
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