Windows 98 Finally Gets a REAL NVMe Driver! (...and it's fast!)

Windows 98 now has native NVMe support!
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Get the NVMe9x driver by SweetLow: https://github.com/LordOfMice/Tools
Based on NVMe 2K driver by Dominik Behr: https://github.com/techomancer/nvme2k

So... for the first time ever, Windows 98 can talk directly to NVMe drives without relying on BIOS compatibility mode—delivering over 1GB/s compared to the painful 5-20MB/s from BIOS mode. In this video, I test the new native driver on modern AMD and Intel systems, format a 512GB NVMe with FAT32, run benchmarks, and even boot MS-DOS 3.3 from 1987 on a Ryzen 9 9900X just because we can.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 New NVMe driver for Windows 98
0:25 MS-DOS Compatibility Mode & BIOS Disk Access
1:42 MS-DOS 3.3 on Ryzen 9 9900X and NVMe
3:09 Why Write a Native NVMe Driver for Windows 98?
3:27 Sponsor - boot.dev
4:58 BIOS Mode Limitations & Windows Protection Errors
5:47 FAT32 Storage Limits - 2TB Partition Support
6:29 NVMe Speed Benchmarks - 1GB/s on Windows 98
8:00 Booting Windows 98 from NVMe - Does It Work?
9:11 NVMe Driver Installation Guide
9:31 New HD Audio Driver for Windows 98 Coming Soon
10:07 Outro

HARDWARE USED:
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X
Asus Prime X670-P
Kingston FURY Renegade 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 6400MHz KF564C32RSK2-64
Kingston FURY Renegade G5 2TB (SFYR2S/2T0)
Kingston A2000 512GB NVMe
Samsung PM981 512GB NVMe
Citizen USB Floppy Drive
Also tested and working: Ryzen 5 4500 build(Gigabyte B550 motherboard), Intel Core i5-9500 (Asus B360)

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