Re: XP/Win98 Hard Drive Issue?
- From: "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:52:39 +1100
grativo@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm trying to build three windows 98 client computers. I have three
> different HD's from 20 GB to 250GB, all of which used to run XP's.
> However, I can't install Windows 98 on them because they all give
> me HD writing errors when beginning to install. It isn't even
> recognized as c: when booted from Win98 setup disk.
Is that in just one PC ?
> If the HD's are dead, I would understand....but HD's aren't dead...
> they all run fine when used as a slave drive on a XP machine.
Then if you are seeing the same problem with 3 drives in one PC,
the problem is in that PC. It could be a flakey power connector,
the metal tunnels in the molex connector can open up over time.
Try one of the connectors off one of the optical drives.
It could be a bad cable in that PC or a bad motherboard too.
> I've tried getting the clean utility to overwrite the entire HD with 0's,
> FDISKed them to create primary DOS partition, and formatted them
> with FAT32 using Partition Magic, but no matter what I try to do,
> same thing on all three HD's. Is there something I'm missing here?
If you are getting that effect in just one PC, most likely its got a problem.
The 98 install does use the system more aggressively than most and I
did at one time use an install as a quick test for hardware problems.
One time it was something as basic as that motherboard didnt like
the mix of memory installed. That was the only symptom, it wouldnt
install 98 properly.
.
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