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Old May 15th 06, 10:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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I had to replace my defective hard drive. I installed one that had
been wiped clean by the previous user. As a result, when I attempted
to use my HP Recovery CD, it produced the C: prompt but indicated that
it was unable to detect a hard drive. I assume that means that the
hard drive has to be formatted because when I checked the bios startup
both the Primary and Secondary Slaves said "None." Does that mean that
I have to Format the drive before the drive is recognized?

Also, is there any way around the use of a boot up floppy?
Unfortunately, I do not have one, and my second computer does not have
a floppy drive.
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Old May 16th 06, 05:50 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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need a floppy
take the hard disk out, plug it into a working system
FDISK it
format it
sys it
copy the windows cdrom to the hard disk
put the disk back in the pc
boot to dos
run setup

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I had to replace my defective hard drive. I installed one that had
been wiped clean by the previous user. As a result, when I attempted
to use my HP Recovery CD, it produced the C: prompt but indicated that
it was unable to detect a hard drive. I assume that means that the
hard drive has to be formatted because when I checked the bios startup
both the Primary and Secondary Slaves said "None." Does that mean that
I have to Format the drive before the drive is recognized?

Also, is there any way around the use of a boot up floppy?
Unfortunately, I do not have one, and my second computer does not have
a floppy drive.



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Old May 16th 06, 10:22 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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A drive does not need to be formatted to be recognised by BIOS, and probably
not even for the recovery CD to use it. But if BIOS doesn't see it then the
restore CD certainly won't. You should check the installation of the new
drive, as it appears something is wrong with the hardware (such as cables).
Get a hard drive diagnostic routine from the www site of the disk drive
manufacturer - it might indicate what has gone wrong with the installation.

If the hard drive is not working or is not formatted the only option is to
install a floppy drive that works, or use a CD drive and bootable CD. Most
Windows 98 CDs aren't bootable. If yours is (a recovery CD might be) then
your BIOS needs to support booting from CD for it to work.
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I had to replace my defective hard drive. I installed one that had
been wiped clean by the previous user. As a result, when I attempted
to use my HP Recovery CD, it produced the C: prompt but indicated that
it was unable to detect a hard drive. I assume that means that the
hard drive has to be formatted because when I checked the bios startup
both the Primary and Secondary Slaves said "None." Does that mean that
I have to Format the drive before the drive is recognized?

Also, is there any way around the use of a boot up floppy?
Unfortunately, I do not have one, and my second computer does not have
a floppy drive.



 




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