gallagher120

its going to be a master drive

[Edited by gallagher120 - 5/2/2003 11:53:43 AM]

gallagher120

ok thanks alot mate, try it later, i'll post on here if anything goes wrong, so keep your eye open!!

[Edited by gallagher120 - 5/2/2003 1:34:52 PM]

gallagher120

well the title says it all really! i can install its just setting it up, the hard drive is a samsung 40GB 5400rpm (i think) want it to run windows 98SE,

so if u know any good websites!! keep em coming, e-mail me also if you like,

thanks in advance,

adam

Fig

Are you installing it as the first or an additional drive?

Fig

OK once you have set it as the master and installed it, you need to boot from a Win98SE Boot Disk and run fdisk to partition the drive. Then, depending on whether you have a bootable CD drive or not, you either:

Reboot with boot disk in (with CD Rom support), format the new drive and then run setup from the root of the CD

or

Reboot with the CD in (no boot disk) and select Start Windows setup from CD (wording may not be exact) - which should take you through the format process.


To complicate matters, if you install Windows from the CD, you will have problems when it comes to detect hardware, as it forgets to install a protected mode driver for the CD drive prior to this point, so cannot access the CD to install the required files as it detects the hardware (good old Microsoft!). Personally, I would format the drive manually (from boot disk) then create a folder on the hard drive (called anything you like except WINDOWS, copy the contents of the WIN98 folder from the CD into this folder and run setup from there. Advantage of this is you will not need to insert the Windows CD when you make changes in future.