hard drive problems.

[maxi]

have old 486dx4 with 410 mb. Tryed to upgrade hard-drive to wd caviar 1.6 gig and now can not boot to c:\. Have a bootable disk in and proper boot sequence(a,C). Have award bios v.4.50g and plan to upgrade or flash the bios. old bios supported only that hard-drive. I am desperate and need Help!!!!

[JP]

I must have more information. Did the BIOS detect the drive? Which one is master/slave? Is the bootable drive partition set "active" with fdisk? Did you copy system files to the boot drive? Reply with that info and we'll take it from there.
-JP
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[GVolosky]

Fdisk must be on the boot disk - start fdisk and create a dos partition and make it active - Escape out and reboot making sure you have "format" on your boot disk - At "A" prompt type format c:/s and your c drive is now bootable remove boot disk and restart.
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