Installing an OS

[mikeb]

I am looking for some help installing an OS to a hdd. I have a Win9x start-up disk which gets me to the point where I can choose to boot from the hdd or from the CD-ROM. Choosing the CD-ROM gets me further, but after several items appear to load, I get to a screen which says that the hdd has not been located.

I would appreciate any assistance, step by step, what I can do to install the new OS.

Thank you in advance,
Mike

[S.D.Willie]

when your pc boots do you see the hard drive in the system??? can you go into bios when you boot(delete key on most pc's, F10 on compaq's) and see it in there? you should have it set to "auto detect" in bios. have you ran FDISK yet from your 98 start up disk??? you might want to make sure the drive is formatted and partitioned first.
then you would boot with a start up disk, load with cdrom support...switch to the cdrom drive letter...and run "setup.exe"
if you cant do this you might have a bad drive. good luck.

SD

if you arent familiar with partitioning and formatting, look around this forum or do a search. theres plenty of info on it all over.

[Sabbath]

First thing I would do mike is double check to make sure all your cables, power connection and jumpers are connected/ set correctly. Then start the computer and go to the bios and see if the HDD is being detected. If not change the settings to auto detect and see what happens.

That's about all the advice I can give, I am sure someone here at Sysopt can get you through this if my suggestions don't work.

I am curious to here some other suggestions because I am having the same problem and I have done everything I told you to try and it still isn't detecting the HDD either. Hopefully it will work for you.

[rlpos]

Detailed info at this link on WIN95

http://www.angelfire.com/la2/rlpos1/page3.html