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Name: jackyl Date: February 19, 2003 at 01:15:56 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: 1.4 gig cpu 128 mram
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I bought a new computer with a 40 gig hard drive. I tried to install win 98 and had to partition the hard drive. I did the fdisk and format 's and now i am getting no drives found / aborting installation. It's not detecting my hard drive or my cdrom.
Name: Shmanda Date: February 19, 2003 at 01:28:39 Pacific
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Your best bet is to start over with FDISK.
Follow the steps in this tutorial: http://www.ualberta.ca/HELP/how-tos/fdisk.html
Pay special attention when it tells you to reboot and set an active partition since that sounds like where you got confused.
After that's done, then format your new logical drives one at a time. Then startup with the Win98 floppy again (choose to start with CD support), change directory at the prompt to "c:" (type CD C:)and type "x:\setup.exe" where x is the letter of your CD drive (probably E:). That will get you into Windows 98 setup.
Good luck =)
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Response Number 2
Name: jackyl Date: February 19, 2003 at 02:08:58 Pacific
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I tried fdisk and got a no fixed disks present.
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Response Number 3
Name: SKULL_NOOSE Date: February 19, 2003 at 04:10:12 Pacific
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You may want to check the jumper settings on the drives. Check BIOS to see if the drive is being detected. The drive may be bad.
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Response Number 4
Name: jackyl Date: February 19, 2003 at 05:30:38 Pacific
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Already did all that.
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Response Number 5
Name: PCtech Date: February 19, 2003 at 05:40:18 Pacific
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Well in this case i will call to tech support and ask tham what hardware do i have in my computer? and they should be able to tell you, or go to website and look for your model number there.
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Response Number 6
Name: red Date: February 19, 2003 at 09:50:06 Pacific
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Have you checked the WIN XP forum?
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Response Number 7
Name: ding Date: February 19, 2003 at 12:57:36 Pacific
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for if you had xp on it before the problems began, this is the wrong forum to ask your questions
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Response Number 8
Name: MindsEye Date: February 19, 2003 at 13:41:29 Pacific
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If this computer originally had XP on it ... did you check to see what the file system was. If it is NTFS I don't think that FDISK will work. I think you would need to use a boot floppy with DELPART on it to delete the NTFS partitions. OK ... someone who knows what I mean please jump in here. I have XP on my computer with NTFS but so far I haven't had any problems and no desire to go back to 98. Hope this helps you at least a little. MindsEye
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Response Number 9
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: February 19, 2003 at 21:49:10 Pacific
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'No fixed disks present' is not due to NTFS or other partitions unrecognized by an OS. It means the OS is not seeing any physical harddrive.
Assuming your hardware is good, it's either an incorrect setting in cmos (make sure the IDE controllers are enabled) or a connection/jumper problem.
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