February 20th 05, 09:15 PM
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There was no disk that came with the drive.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy
HJobe71h wrote:
I just recently put a brand new 40gb hard drive into a relatives
computer. Everything seems to be installed correctly but I am having a
problem installing windows onto that new hard drive. I hope someone
out there can help me. First of all, I can't open the CDROM drive
(either one, even have an Acer CDWR) and as far as I know, when you
use the floppy boot disk, it will locate the drivers for the reg.
cdrom and allow you to use it. My problem is this.. I put the floppy
in, load it with windows 98 support and it goes through the steps of
trying to start the installation process such as recognizing the
hardware. Eventually, it comes to a screen where it says that the
computer can't recognize (doesn't contain) valid Fat or Fat32
partition, so it suggests running fdisk from the command prompt. It
then takes me to the command prompt where I type in FDISK next to the
A: drive command. It says "no fixed disks present" when I hit enter.
So I type in C: and it goes to that drive, I type in FDISK and it
says the same thing, "no fixed disks present." Now as you can see, I
am stuck in a rock and a hard place. And since it can't go through
the motions of loading everything, it won't open the cd drives which
means I am limited to the floppy drive currently. Anyone have ANY
suggestions on how to stop this problem and move onward in the
installation process? I am to my wits ends with ideas. I have tried
everything I know to pull it out of this but nothing seems to work, I
always end up with the same result. Hope you can help! Either respond
or email to
Thank you!!!
If you have a disk that came with the drive you should boot with that in
the floppy and setup the HD that way. Providing you have the drive installed
and jumped properly.
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