My Hard drive packed up a couple of days ago, I bought a new drive and tried ti instal it last night, it is an 80gb drive, I had a 17Gb drive before. Whenever I try to load in the system discs that came when I purchased the computer via Tiny 5 years ago, the new drive is not being recognised. I have tried Fdisk and what I get is that there is no fixed drive. I cannot copy anything onto C because the system does not appear to see a C drive? I am very puzzled and need some help. Could you please post advice via this site please.

Nothing much is going to work until the hard drive is recognized correctly in the BIOS. Hopefully the drive's jumper is correctly set as 'master' - that's normally how they're set from the factory. You might consider trying another cable as well It may be that your machine has a BIOS limit and won't properly see a drive that large. IF you do get it set up in the BIOS, you may need the updated version of fdisk - the original Win98 had problems with drives larger than 64Gb I agree; Computing.Net participants need to proofread

'If' the drive has a jumper to limit it to 32gb, that 'might' let you use it.

Billy, You must use a Windows ME boot disk to see the full 80 GB of the drive. Windows 98 or even 98SE's boot disk will only see 32 or 40 GB. Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and download the "Windows Me OEM" program which will ceate a bootable floppy. Even though you are not installing Windows ME, this is the correct bootdisk for a large hard drive regardless which Windows operating system you plan to install. I - Sandor J Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the wise man. - William Penn (1614 - 1718)

'Must'? By and large, same difference as the updated 98 fdisk - the original from 98 was ok up to about 64Gb - you seem to be misinformed Thing is, if the disk isn't seen in the BIOS (that's still a bit unclear), no progress will be made [insert 'Fruity Pebbles' here] I agree; Computing.Net participants need to proofread