[TechAssist] Re: seagate hard drive problem
- From: jmgoins.tn@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:47:58 -0500
If you have previously used a hd manager, and are trying to reinstall it
without one, you might trye to boot from a diskette, and rewrite the master
boot record with "fdisk /mbr". I think that some of the disk managers embed
themselves into the mbr, and a DOS format program does not rewrite that.
Also once you have a drive formatted and partitioned from DOS, you can copy
the win98 directory off of the CD onto the hard drive, and run setup from
there. If you can afford the space to leave it there, it makes adding
peripherals and printers convenient, as you no longer have to figure where
you left the CD. (Although you should ditch the part that has the online
services junk)
Mike Goins jmgoins.tn@xxxxxxxxxxx
At 04:51 PM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>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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