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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:18 am
by nprime
With XP, we do the first bit where you are asked if you want to format the drive, and we say yes...and it does it's thing for what seems like forever, then it says re- boot. When we do it says would you like to format this hard drive?
98SE says that there is no hard drive there.
R:(
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:22 am
by garyb
a likely culprit.
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:34 am
by at0m
nprime, I suspect you formatted NTFS... Win98 only recognises FAT and FAT32 partitions. FAT32 is recommended for Win98...
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:32 am
by blazesboylan
This is a bit of an aside, apologies Rod. There's a utility that works pretty well for reading NTFS hard drives. But you have to copy some XP files over to 98 before you can use it... So probably not helpful for you... Also don't use it to copy big files, unless you have to! It's deadly slow doing big files.
SysInternals
Back to the subject at hand -- how does Windoze know what to do after reboot? Does it store some BIOS parameter or something? If so... maybe a battery issue? I don't know, I'm just guessing -- shoot me down if it sounds dumb!
Johann
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:33 am
by garyb
i think it's by what's written on the hd....
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:48 pm
by nprime
The drive was a dud. Store replaced it.
Here we go again.
R
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:08 pm
by nprime
...and the new hard rive does the same thing.
R
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:43 pm
by nprime
Me smart.
...go to Seagate website and find troubleshooting guide.
Now the drive is recognized, we will see what happens.
R
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:19 am
by nprime
Finally, I have Windows XP installed!
Hopefully I will find some time today to load everything else.
R
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:40 pm
by garyb
