Disk Write Error when loading Win98 on new hard drive

[dancinOTG]

We installed a 20 gig hard drive on an older system.

When trying to install windows 98... it goes all the way through the install then when it goes to start windows for the first time we are getting a disk write error and that's all she wrote

can anyone help me with this

i believe there is a dos command that will help with this but have forgotten what it is

danc

 

[franklin97355]

Make sure your bios will handle a 20 gig drive (check with the vendor) then check the disk for bad sectors. The software that comes with most new hard disks should do this.

 

[dancinOTG]

Windows was already loaded on this computer with the 20gig drive... we initially had this same problem and the vendor did a dos command of some sort that allowed it to load windows 98

The eejit using the computer was having problems and instead of finding out what the problem was he formatted the drive. Now its back to not being able to load windows w/o that command. But the person we bought the drive from is no longer around.

sigh
lol

 

[Comtech]

Turn off any anti-virus, aka "Trend ChipAway", in BIOS.

Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[franklin97355]

According to one of the guys here you need to go to the drive manufacturers site and get the utility that allows older bios versions to see drives bigger that 8.4 gig. This should let you use the drive with this computer.