Rudy Loew’s SATA patch is what got Windows 98 installing at all on a SATA-only Dell OptiPlex 380 — out of the box, the install just hung during boot, and this patch is what fixed it. Not an optional tweak in that case; without it, the install simply didn’t work.
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Rudy Loew's SATA Patch
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