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Old February 22nd 06, 01:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default HDD install not detected

Some simple questions:
Is the harddrive cables properly installed ??
Is the hard drive jumper set properly
Does the motherboard bios support drives this size.

Back in the old days there were motherboards with 2G limits, 8 G limits and
32 G limits

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"Chuck" wrote in message
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I am trying to install a new replacement HDD in my boy's PC (PIII 333MHz,
Win98--yeah, it's old). I have a Seagate 80GB replacement HDD. After a
couple
of tries and some cable swaps, I got the machine to boot back up from the
motherboard, but it will not detect the new HDD. It won't even boot from
my
Windows staretup disk.
I have all the BIOS settings as per the instructions with the drive. BUT,
when I try to get the PC to auto-detect the HDD, it stalls at
"Auto-detecting
new primary master" and that's it. I can't even back out of it; it
completely
freezes and I have to power the PC off.
Any ideas?
Thanks. :-|