PC can not find the hard drive
 

Hi All
I wanted to use the HD from my old Windows 98 PC for storage on my Windows
XP Home PC. so I formated the drive. Having purchased a bigger storage HD for
my XP PC I decided to refit the old drive back into my Windows 98 PC. Problem
is the computer can not find the HD so I find it impossible to reload Windows
98. Would the problem be in the BIOS set up if so where.
Any ideas please
B J G

PC can not find the hard drive
 

"MRRIGGA" wrote in message
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Hi All
I wanted to use the HD from my old Windows 98 PC for storage on my Windows
XP Home PC. so I formated the drive. Having purchased a bigger storage HD
for
my XP PC I decided to refit the old drive back into my Windows 98 PC.
Problem
is the computer can not find the HD so I find it impossible to reload
Windows
98. Would the problem be in the BIOS set up if so where.
Any ideas please
B J G


Yes
you need to jumper it the way it originally was...
then re-detect it in the bios.

If you formatted it NTFS you'll of course have to delete it and recreate as
fat32

PC can not find the hard drive
 

Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and create a Windows 98 boot
floppy. Use it to start the computer in question, use fdisk to delete any existing
partitions, run fdisk again, accept "Large disk support", create a primary DOS
partition and format it. Then run "setup.exe" from the Win98 directory on the
Windows 98 CD.

Ben

"MRRIGGA" wrote in message ...
Hi All
I wanted to use the HD from my old Windows 98 PC for storage on my Windows
XP Home PC. so I formated the drive. Having purchased a bigger storage HD for
my XP PC I decided to refit the old drive back into my Windows 98 PC. Problem
is the computer can not find the HD so I find it impossible to reload Windows
98. Would the problem be in the BIOS set up if so where.
Any ideas please
B J G