Why does it say cannot ready drive or no disk present, when I'm able to format and set

[optimistic]

Why does it say cannot ready drive or no disk present, when I'm able to format and fdisk?

I need for some way to get this comptuer to detect it's hard drive. I need to install win98.

Thank you very much for any advice.

 

[optimistic]

I tried everything!

I tried switch hard drives. Formating. Setting Partition to active in fdisk. Creating new partitions. But no go. 🙁

 

[jmatt]

http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/index.html
Freeware .
WIPE OUT : as the name implies, this utility will absolutely WIPE your hard drive. For those
times when an industrial strength cleaner is needed to remove any pesky files Fdisk may have
left behind. A readme file is included in the zip file. WARNING...WIPE OUT will remove ALL data
from the Hard Drive.

WARNING
The use of WIPEOUT can and will result in the loss of ALL data on your hard drive.

DIRECTIONS

1- Unzip file
2- Copy WIPEOUT to a Win9x boot disk
3- Boot with Win9x disk
4- At the A:\> type "wipeout c: /nq /np" (no quotes)
/nq = no queries - you will not be asked if you are sure.
/np = no partitions - this will overwrite the MBR

Press Enter .

Now run fdisk to set up partitions .
When done reboot & format .

 

[optimistic]

Oh thank you kind sir. I will try! 🙂

 

[tracerbullet]

Hope that works, I'm interested if it does.

I've run into similar problems before, had to do something with MBR (Master boot record) and EMBR (extended master boot record). Some programs (EZ BIOS comes to mind) seem to stick exa crap on the drive. When you boot from a floppy and format the disk, it doesn't get this stuff off. However it seems to try to boot from it.

All I've ever done is eventually figure out what was used the first time and then use it again to undo itself.

 

[kylef]

Wow... that almost sounds like a disk controller with two master drives on the same cable...

 

[bacillus]

would you hdd happen to be a western digital one?

 

[vsfoxe]

I'm currently stymied by the symptoms tracerbullet has seen. Tried WD Data Life Guard, formatted to FAT-32, and the drive is no longer "recognized" by the OS. The BIOS recognizes it, but not the OS. Jumpers on rear are set to "Slave" and it's on the slave IDE-1 plug.

I'm trying to take a former WIN-XP Pro NTFS WD-60-GB drive, reformat it to FAT-32, and use it in a WIN-98SE computer.

Reinstalled in my XP computer, formatted it in Windows Explorer, and after that the computer cannot "see" the drive.

I have no idea what to try, or what to do.