Trouble booting/loading OS

[DyslexicHobo]

My step-dad just bought a wireless router and one wireless hub for each computer in the house. His computer was using Win98, and needed at least Win2000 to use the hub. I formatted his hard drive (deleted the partition, I hope I did it correctly, it was the first time I've done it), and tried to install the Windows XP Upgrade CD that I bought. I popped it in the CD drive and everything seemed to go fine, it asked for the previous version of Windows that I had and I put in the Win98 CD. Everything went smooth, but once it was done installing and formatting, it asked for a reboot. After it booted this time, it didn't give me the option to boot from the hard drive!

I went into the BIOS and couldn't find the hard drive listed anywhere, so I don't know if it's a problem with the motherboard/BIOS or if it's a problem with the hard drive/OS itself. Does anyone know what the problem could be?

Thanks for any help!

 

[meltdown75]

when you formatted, did you select NTFS or fat32? NTFS is what you would want for WinXP... i think it would still boot though even under fat32 but don't quote me on that (?).

However if your drive isn't showing up in the BIOS, then it isn't being detected anyway. It's too bad you don't have a regular XP install disc though because you never know if the problems are coming from your specific installation routine (upgrade etc).

 

[montag451]

When you partitioned the drive, did you restart afterwards?

Try doing everything from the xp cd [i think with the upgrade version, you can set up a partition, and format]
You will be able to use FAT32, but only worth doing this if you are using Win9x and need to access files on the other drive.
Please let us know what happens.
Thank you

 

[Uncle Bob]

Originally posted by: DyslexicHobo
........................ After it booted this time, it didn't give me the option to boot from the hard drive!

so what did it (the pc) do at this point? what was on the screen?

 

[DyslexicHobo]

Found the problem, thanks guys. I forget exactly what I did but it involved a LOT of re-booting and stuff. I ended up setting the Pri-Master to the HD instead of auto-select or whatever it is.