Can't access dos from new drive

[Packin]

I just installed an IBM 80 gb drive into my comp. I ran the setup for it, and I popped in my win 95 disk and copied over all of those files to my 80 gig drive. now technically it should boot up into dos mode from the hard drive (its always done it in the past with older hds 17gig) but it doesnt. all it does is ask me to insert the system disk and i have to put in the floppy once again. this means that my hard drive never loads up my device drivers for my cd-rom drive and i cant get to my cd-rom drive to install windows...the only full version of windows i have is windows 95, 98 and xp are upgrades. does this hd not support 95?

EDIT: I have a Gigabyte GA-8IRXP mobo is there some setting in there i need to change? i set it up to boot from the hard drive first but it still doesnt work.

 

[michaelh20]

When I do this, after I copy the files over, I always boot up with a bootable floppy and do "sys driveletterhere: " from the bootable floppy. Just copying isn't enough i don't think

You also have to set a partition active on the new drive, or else it won't boot up either. I guess you can do this either from something like partionmagic or FDISK (set active partition)

 

[kursplat]

just installed an IBM 80 gb drive into my comp. I ran the setup for it, and I popped in my win 95 disk

setup for what ? the utility that came with the drive ? i don't think win95 is going to be able to see that big of drive with out making a small enough partion to install to. try using the XP upgrade disk you have . boot from it and let it partion the drive . it should then just ask for your win98 disk to conferm you have it.
good luck

 

[monckywrench]

http://www.pcnineoneone.com/tweaks/fixes1c.html#clean is a good tutorial on clean installing from an upgrade disk.
For a boot floppy, just download a Windows 98 floppy image from bootdisk.com, Microns support section, etc.