[TechAssist] Re: seagate hard drive problem
- From: "adam miller" <adamt123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:51:18 -0500
no,
it is something more complicated or really silly than that, i have 2 win98
cd's , i tried them both, if i take the same computer, use a differant hard
drive, such as a western digital, its all good with either cd, setup works
fine with another hard drive, problem is that i dont have any decent size
hard drive other than the segate, and i was trying to avoid buying a new
one, i also connected the seagate as a slave drive and load windows onto the
350mb hard drive, and the seagate seemed to work fine as a slave drive, you
can copy files, and so on, but i need a larger drive as main drive because i
want to put office on this computer and it ownt let you just install
everything to d:\ for some reason it keeps saying not enough disk space when
i try to browse and install to the d: directory, i know i know its a
differant problem but i want to know why the heck the seagate wont let me
load windows, i tried setting bios to fail safe, then setting them to
optimal defaults, then i tried to manually select the drive and set it to
lba mode. none of this helped......it is a mystery,
troy
>From: joel e sanford <rope23@xxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>CC: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: seagate hard drive problem
>Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:44:30 -0600
>
>
>
>
> Help! I am reading your post , and i have the almost same
>prob.... I was haveing a problem with certain files needed to run the
>programs and i tried to frag the hard drive thinking i would clean it up
>and then reload the windows 98 and be all good! Didn,t happen!it omitted
>all of 4,3gigs on my hard drive, leaveing me only two to use i don,t have
>the HD disk ,am I just SOL or what can i do to retreive my four gigs?
>I had the HD partitioned off in to two times three and had some programs
>in each of them Help!
>
>
>
>Sanford
>On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:53:57 -0500 "RS Tek Inc" <rstek@xxxxxxxxxx>
>writes:
> >
> > Ok, first things first, you don't need a management program for
> > your Hd.
> > Go to fdisk and take it to one partition. Multiple partitions are
> > not
> > needed anymore. Restart the pc with your win98 boot disk in drive A
> > and
> > your cd in the cd drive. When you get your A prompt type"setup"
> > then let
> > windows format your HD and install itself. If it still blows up you
> > may
> > have a dirty cd-rom drive. I've had many problems with bum cd-rom
> > drives
> > causing problems like you described. Lastly, try re-loading the
> > default
> > settings for the bios. They usually will work with a clean install.
> >
> > If you have any other questions let me know.
> >
> > Frank
> > Rs-Tek Inc.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "adam miller" <adamt123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:14 PM
> > Subject: [TechAssist] seagate hard drive problem
> >
> >
> > >
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > i have a stupid problem with a seagate st31720 hard drive. i
> > wanted to
> > > re-install windows from scratch on a differant computer, and i
> > formatted
> > the
> > > whole drive and re partitioned it, without knowing you had to
> > install this
> > > disk manager, anyway, i downloaded the disk manager and ran fdisk
> > one more
> > > time, scandisk says no errors are found on the drive, so i try to
> > run
> > setup
> > > for window 98, it goes through scandisk, and after you exit
> > scandisk and
> > go
> > > to the screen where it says windows is installing files nesacary
> > for
> > setup,
> > > the computer freezes, i tried another disc and i get differant
> > errors,
> > like
> > > package is corrupt, and so on, everything looks ok in the bios, i
> > am using
> > a
> > > via 700MHZ processor, award bios, anyone have any ideas? this
> > thing is
> > > driving me crazy.............im trying to put a computer together
> > for one
> > of
> > > my nephews, so any advice is much apreciate,
> > >
> > > troy
> > >
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