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Old February 18th 07, 01:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
MRRIGGA
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Default 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
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Old February 18th 07, 01:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
philo
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Default PC can not find the hard drive


"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



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


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Old February 18th 07, 02:45 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Ben Myers
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Default 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

 




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