Re: XP/Win98 Hard Drive Issue?

You want 3 different PCs to install Win98 on them as client.
Perhaps it would be okay to suggest placing each hard drive as the first
hard drive seen by the PC. Normally primary, master. That is if all are
the run of the mill onboard ide types.
On each of these hard drives, create one primary partition. Make that
partition active. Format it. FAT32 of course.

http://www.48bitlba.com/win98hbi.htm

Write errors may be due to marginal RAM, or flaky power supply, as well as
the hard drive itself. Ron mentioned the ribbon cable as well. Replace
with 80 wire version.
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Jonny
<grativo@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1135884371.792616.183490@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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. 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. 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?
>
> Grativo
>


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