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Yes, everything is plugged in correctly.
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Well, maybe the drive is defective, as you suggested. Or the IDE
controller & cable may be defective, thats easy enough to test, if it can see one of your CD devices then it should see the HD. If it can't see the CD device then the cable or controller is at fault. John HJobe71h wrote: Yes, everything is plugged in correctly. |
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is the drive seen by your bios.
"HJobe71h" wrote: Yes, everything is plugged in correctly. -- HJobe71h |
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I last time I reinstalled windows 98 I had the same problem with the their
being know valid fat. What you need to do is format you partition. There is an order that these thing need to be done first you have to create a partition then you have to format the partition so that is can be recongnized by windows. If you installed a new hard drive or just made a new partition with windows already install some where else you would need to the new partition before it can be used. "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!!! -- HJobe71h |
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