Posted by DAN on May 03, 19101 at 19:08:56:
In Reply to: IBM installation posted by Steviebee on May 03, 19101 at 10:55:49:
I WENT TRU THAT,,RUN FDISK AND DELETE THE PARTITION'S IN THE NEW DRIVE,,
TO GET THE OVERLAY OFF BOOT OFF A BOOTABLE FLOPPY,,[WIN98] THAT HAS FDISK.EXE ANS FORMAT.COM
AND SYS.EXE ON IT,
AFTER BOOTING TYPE FDISK /MBR [SPACE BETWEEN FDISK AND MBR ] HIT ENTER,,YOU WON'T SEE ANYTHING HAPPEN ,IT DOES HAPPEN,,NOW TYPE FDISK AND SELECT OPTION 4 ,VIEW DOS PARTITIONS,,IF ANY THERE
DELETE THEM,,
NOW SET THE DRIVE MANUALLY IN BIOS SET UP
TO THE CYLINDERS,HEADS AND SECTORS THAT IS ON THE HARD DRIVE,,THEN BOOT OFF THE FLOPPY AND RUN FDISK AND MAKE THE PARTITIONS MANUALLY,,IF THE SETTINGS ARE NOT ON THE DRIVE GO TO THIERE WEB SITE AND GET THEM,,BE SURE TO FORMAT THE PARTITIONS AND MAKE BOOT PARTITION ACTIVE
RUN SYS.EXE TO MAKE IT BOOTABLE,,ALLTHIS WOULD BE ON THE BOOTABLE FLOPPY,,THE DRIVE YOU ARE WORKING ON NEEDS TO BE SET AS MASTER AND THE OMLY DRIVE IN THERE WHILE DOING THIS
DAN
: After your last advice, I decided to go for the one drive - now an IBM IC35L040AVER07-0 40gig ATA100. I've used IBM Disk Manager diskette to install it as Primary Slave (with the original Seagate ST310232A set up as Primary Master so I can transfer 10gigs of files) and it has altered the reported size to 33gigs and applied a Disk Drive Overlay. Problem is, even though the BIOS sees both drives now, the system refuses to boot when both are activated. When I hit Esc the DOS screen shows both CD-Rom drives have been detected, but neither HDD. Resetting to just the original Seagate, everything loads fine. All cables, connectors and jumpers have been checked and rechecked but still nothing. When I get back to the Disk Manager Program in Windows it tells me that I need to change BIOS settings to activate the new drive, but when I do...Lock-up!! I'm going round in ever-decreasing circles, but getting nowhere. Any suggestions?