New system...now the headaches?

nprime · Post by **nprime** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:18 am

With XP, we do the first bit where you are asked if you want to format the drive, and we say yes...and it does it's thing for what seems like forever, then it says re- boot. When we do it says would you like to format this hard drive?

98SE says that there is no hard drive there.

R:(

Post by **garyb** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:22 am

a likely culprit.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:34 am

nprime, I suspect you formatted NTFS... Win98 only recognises FAT and FAT32 partitions. FAT32 is recommended for Win98...

blazesboylan · Post by **blazesboylan** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:32 am

This is a bit of an aside, apologies Rod. There's a utility that works pretty well for reading NTFS hard drives. But you have to copy some XP files over to 98 before you can use it... So probably not helpful for you... Also don't use it to copy big files, unless you have to! It's deadly slow doing big files.

SysInternals

Back to the subject at hand -- how does Windoze know what to do after reboot? Does it store some BIOS parameter or something? If so... maybe a battery issue? I don't know, I'm just guessing -- shoot me down if it sounds dumb!

Johann

Post by **garyb** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:33 am

i think it's by what's written on the hd....

nprime · Post by **nprime** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:48 pm

The drive was a dud. Store replaced it.

Here we go again.

R

nprime · Post by **nprime** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:08 pm

...and the new hard rive does the same thing.

R

nprime · Post by **nprime** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:43 pm

Me smart.

...go to Seagate website and find troubleshooting guide.

Now the drive is recognized, we will see what happens.

R

nprime · Post by **nprime** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:19 am

Finally, I have Windows XP installed!

Hopefully I will find some time today to load everything else.

R

Post by **garyb** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:40 pm