howdy,
I've thought about this for a while and was wondering if someone could shed some light as to what would cause a new hard drive to not fdisk, when I know that it has already been formatted and partitioned properly?
When I use the Win98 boot disk, it loads but says that the drive has not been partitioned, then gives three options as to why it is not partitioned (virus, third party software, etc.). So I type in fdisk, and type yes to enable large disk support (FAT32) and screen gives me an error message about fdisk error, then it reutrns to A: promt.
Any ideas? I know that the system is set up properly, the drive is good, the mobo is good, but for some reason this hard drive will not allow fdisk to work, and will not even allow the win98 boot disk (or win 2000 boot disks) to work becuase of errors.
THanks,
post scriptum,
this has to do with the post of the ECS K7S5A motherbpard and a new 60 GB hard drive from Maxtor. Smaller drives work, but this new 60 GB will not allow the boot disk to properly load. I've checked the set up and everything is set up properly. The power supply is 300 Watts, Memory tested good, video card is good, cpu is good (Duron 950 MHz). All drives appear to be recognized in BIOS, but only the 60 GB hard drive will not work when I try to load boot disk Win98 or Win2000, keeps giving fdisk error for the Win98 disk, and "I/O error" for Win 2000 disks when they are almost done loading.
any more ideas?
I've thought about this for a while and was wondering if someone could shed some light as to what would cause a new hard drive to not fdisk, when I know that it has already been formatted and partitioned properly?
When I use the Win98 boot disk, it loads but says that the drive has not been partitioned, then gives three options as to why it is not partitioned (virus, third party software, etc.). So I type in fdisk, and type yes to enable large disk support (FAT32) and screen gives me an error message about fdisk error, then it reutrns to A: promt.
Any ideas? I know that the system is set up properly, the drive is good, the mobo is good, but for some reason this hard drive will not allow fdisk to work, and will not even allow the win98 boot disk (or win 2000 boot disks) to work becuase of errors.
THanks,
post scriptum,
this has to do with the post of the ECS K7S5A motherbpard and a new 60 GB hard drive from Maxtor. Smaller drives work, but this new 60 GB will not allow the boot disk to properly load. I've checked the set up and everything is set up properly. The power supply is 300 Watts, Memory tested good, video card is good, cpu is good (Duron 950 MHz). All drives appear to be recognized in BIOS, but only the 60 GB hard drive will not work when I try to load boot disk Win98 or Win2000, keeps giving fdisk error for the Win98 disk, and "I/O error" for Win 2000 disks when they are almost done loading.
any more ideas?
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