you guys are right because after you go into the setup screen it lists all the drives that it has connected to it and it says
ide drive error
equipment configuration error
but the cd rom drive shows up but it never sees the 30gb hdd so i'm going to try and find a 2gb hdd and maybe that will...
now that you mention it i have the older type of ide cables in the aptiva is there anything else that can cause the windows discs not to boot up at the ibm screen? but i'm going to try one of the new cables and see if that helps, because i do get a small message that says "ide error
i have this old ibm aptiva that was running windows 95 upgraded to win98.
my problem is this the hdd went bad and i went out and bought a small 30gb to replace the one that broke. when i go to install win95 with the two cd-roms that the system came with it won't do anything all i get is the ibm...
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