First I want to apologize that I thought it was SCSI, that's what the Device manager details told me. I tried to boot both a Windows 98 SE and a (patched) Windows ME Boot Disk equipped SSD, and it booted it both on a real PC and on VMWare with the same results (I will be showing the results of VMWare).
It booted successfully.
The problem is that right after boot, it stops being able to read from the SSD asking for a directory with a command interpreter:
When I redirect to the floppy entering A:\command.com
, it doesn't matter whether I put the Win98 files on the SSD or the WinME ones. It says it isn't ready reading from the SSD I just booted from:
When I try to enter any command with SSD Root as cd, I get prompted with the following question and enter F:
As you can see, the cd
command gives me the Fail on INT 24
error. If I enter an invalid command, I get prompted the same question without the int 24 error, but with a Bad command or file name
error instead.
The SSD is formatted in FAT32 as it should and connected via the supported SCSI (Edit: Device Manager lied. It's NVMe and is not supported as of VMware). Do I need a LBA48 driver/patch for the emergency boot disk?
It worked with a 2000MB partition instead of 128000MB, but that was fat16. Windows 10 can't get past the 32gb limit, "fat32 format" doesn't support SSD and some other programs have this functionality only in the paid version. There happens to be a Seagate Samsung Disk utility, but it only works on external drives. I found another Seagate DiscWizard utility. It looks like it's formatted successfully, but it gives the following error on boot:
Non-system disk, press any key...
MBR Error 1
Press any key to boot from floppy...