Posted by DAN on April 11, 19101 at 06:47:01:
In Reply to: Re: DAN Re: EMERGENCY COMPATABILITY!!!!! posted by Chris Barnard on April 10, 19101 at 23:57:40:
DANG IT,YES IN THE STATES,,IF THE BIOS SEES IT
AND YOU SAVED THE SETTING B4 LEAVING BIOS SET UP,,
BE SURE ITS SET TO BOOT OFF YOUR FLOPPY,,FIRST BOOT DEVICE IS A: AND FLOPPY SEEK IS ON,,NOW USING
A BOOT DISK THAT IS SAME OPERTING SYSTEM AND
IT DOES NEED TO BE WIN 98 FOR THE 8 GIG UP HD'S
THIS BOOT DISK NEEDS FDISK.EXE,,SYS.COM AND FORMAT.COM ON IT,,THESES ARE UNDER C:\WINDOWS\COMAND..
BOOT WITH THE FLOPPY,TYPE FDISK AND HIT ENTER
SELECT LARGE WHEN ASKED ON BOOTING,,THEN CHOOSE
OPTION ONE [CREATE DOS PARTITION] HIT ENTER,,
FROM HERE FOLLOW PROMPTS,,IF YOU MESS UP REBOOT
OFF THE FLOPPY TYPE FDISK,,DELETE THE PARTITIONS
AND START OVER..
IT DON'T HURT THE HD,,AFTER CREATING ONE OR MORE PARTITIONS,,THIS MEANS ONE LARGE HARD
SAY 30 GIG OR THREE 10 GIG PARTIONS C,D,E OR ANY WHERE IN BETWEEN,ONE OF MINE HAS 20 C TRU U
THE CHOICE IS YOURS,,,WHEN FINISHED SELECT OPTION 2 AND SET C: ACTIVE,,IF YOU DON'T YOU CAN'T BOOT UP YOUR COMPUTER,,,NOW RESTART BOOTING OFF THE FLOPPY THEN TYPE FORMAT C: /S.,,THEN FORMAT ANY OTHER PARTITIONS YOU MAY HAVE CREATED.
THIS WILL FORMAT C: AND COPY SYSTEM FILES TO IT TO MAKE IT BOOTABLE,,THERE IS A SPACE BETWEEN C: AND /S [HIT ENTER,,YOU WILL SEE MESSAGE SYSTEM TRANSFERED,,,NOW GO BACK INTO BIOS SET UP AND
SET C: AS FIRST BOOT DEVICE,,
NOTE WHEN MAKING THE PARTITIONS IN FDISK AND SAY YOU HAVE A 30 GIG AND FDISK ONLY SHOWS A
8 GIG THIS MEANS YOUR BIOS WON'T WORK WITH A
PARTITION LARGER THAN 8 GIG,,THERE ARE SOFTWARE
OVER LAYS TO GET AROUND IT BUT I DON'T USE THEM,
YOU CAN STILL USE IT BUT ONLY AS A 8 GIG IF THIS
HAPPENS
DAN
: Dan
: Cheers, the BIOS is seeing the HDD Drive automatically! The problem occurs when the computer begins to load the DMI pool. I suppose I can't trust the HDD to be configured automatically properly, but I'm not entirely sure how to configure it manually.
: What should happen when everything does work what happens just before you install the OS?
: Any more ideas
:
: Thank you very, very much by the way. I'd buy you a beer, but I think you're in the states!
:
: Chris
:
: YOU DIDN'T MENTION IF IT WOULD DETECT IT IN BIOS
: : SET UP,IT HAS TO DETECT IT BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE CAN HAPPEN,
: : AFTER GOING IN BIOS SETUP,DETECTING THE HD,THEN FDISKING IT,, CREATING PARTITIONS,AND SETTING
: : FIRST PARTITION ACTIVE,, THEN FORMATTING AND
: : SYSTOMING IT THEN IT WILL WORK,
: : IF YOUR BIOS WON'T SEE THE HARD DRIVE,, THE BIOS
: : MAY BE TOO OLD,,A PENTUM 233 WOULD ONLY
: : [ SEE ] AN 8 GIG HD WITH OUT A BIOS UP GRADE OR
: : CHANGING OUT THE BOARD,WHICH WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA,,
: : UNDER$100 FOR MODERN BOARD THAT SUPPORTS ATA 100
: : WITHOUT USING AN ADD ON CARD,THEN YOU COULD USE
: : ONE OF THE NEW 60 GIG HD'S UNDER$200
: : DAN
: : : Please help!!!!!!!
: : : Socket 7 supporting ATA 66 UDMA 33 hard drives. I've tried to install ATA 100 HDD. BIOS reporting drive read error insert system disk. Is an incompatability the problem. I thought it would suppport later modes?????
: : : Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!