BIOS mis-detected HD size, now it wont boot

[darrkblu]

Alright, heres a summary of my situation:

I just installed Win98SE onto a previously Mandrake Linux machine. Everything was fine until I noticed Win98 was reporting my 8GB HD as a 1.2GB HD. Not a big deal. Checked the BIOS and it had simply detected it wrong. Ran auto-detect and it recognized it as the right size.

Now the computer won't boot from the HD, and I can't boot from my Win98SE setup CD. No error messages, just black screen and some kind of disk activity, both trying to boot off the HD and from the setup CD.

The HD was working immediately before that and it is a fairly new drive. No physical changes to it (i.e. jumpers, cables, etc.) just changed the OS and then auto-detected the right size. Win98 was running fine before I fixed the BIOS problem.

 

[gargouille]

I'd jumper the board and flush the BIOS while powered down...

 

[hotfusion]

I think you'll need to reformat the drive now that the BIOS recognises it as a different size, as the FAT will be disrupted. My suggestions are what I would try myself. If incorrect, I welcome corrections to my rather limited knowledge. Andy.