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 > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > > > > ================================= > > > Help make your TechAssist database better! > > > Submit your fixes here: > > http://circuitwork.com/techassist/tip/#tips > > > ================================= > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE your email address, click here: > > > mailto:techassist-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > > > > > > > > > > > > ================================= > > Help make your TechAssist database better! > > Submit your fixes here: http://circuitwork.com/techassist/tip/#tips > > ================================= > > To UNSUBSCRIBE your email address, click here: > > mailto:techassist-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > > > >================================= >Help make your TechAssist database better! >Submit your fixes here: http://circuitwork.com/techassist/tip/#tips >================================= >To UNSUBSCRIBE your email address, click here: >mailto:techassist-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ================================= Help make your TechAssist database better! 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