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Ok thanks for all the suggestions -I finally cured my problem by going to see my local used equip store and got another HD (incindently same brand and size)- I was told there to "low level format the disc" and that should fix my problem. Got a program similar to DiscKill from him...

No virus checkers in Bios - cables seem to be right and jumper on HD as well - HD is primary master and CD is secondary master. I had problems creating the primary DOS partition. See after "setup" refuses to format the drive it gives a message to create pri DOS partition. At that point...

I have one(9 in the house all together- 8 working) PC with USB mouse and keyboard -they will sometimes just stop working and I was restarting the computer to get them back then I found where they had broken connection on the motherboard that would make contact most of the time but not all the...

To Edfair - (or anyone) what do you mean by "zero fill"??

I have tried to use a start up disc and "sys c:" but the PC is seeing my CD as drive A: if I start "with CD support." If I start "setup" off the CD then I'm permanently in virtual drive D: - in other words either way I cannot change to any other drive - says invalid...

The windows CD is a purchased copy from retailer (win98SE)I could be wrong but I'm feeling it's something to do with HP/Compac computers that I don't know about. These are the only ones that ever give me trouble.

CHECK YOUR LOCAL "USED COMPUTER" STORES- MINE SELLS ME A FRESH KEYBOARD FOR ABOUT $4.00

I am working on HP 8260 PC. It had 2 HD's and I took one out. The HD I want to use was partitioned so I ran Fdisk and deleted the partitions, then created new primary DOS partition and made active. I run the Win98 CD and PC boots off the CD and goes into setup to the point that it wants to...

This may sound off the wall but try unplugging your floppy drive (had a HD not power up because of reversed connection at floppy drive)and as everyone else has said start with -does HD even have power? Are any pins folded over at connections, are jumper settings correct on HD, double check over...

Dear Sean, Hope this helps - Windows uses your free space on your hard drive as "virtual memory". In other words as an extension of your RAM memory. But if your hard drive is already full or severly fragmented the pieces of free space Windows uses as "Virtual Memory" are few...