New cpu ,mboard and hard drive

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Hi Guyz

I recently purchased a 900k7t-bird,orb fan,abit kt7 raid mboard and a ibm 30 gig 7200rpm hard drive eidi and win98 second edition any i am having problems getting the pc 2 reconize the new hard drive and the start up disk is working and reconizes my cdrom and a drive but wont reconize my hard drive can u tell me what 2 do

and how can i make a small partition and a big 1 on the hard drive i was also wondering would i need 2 install ms dos on the new hard drive be 4 i tried 2 install win98 can u help me plz the other stuff like graphics and soundcards i have no problems with it is just the above it keeps doin my head in

thx again lta

-- Drew (snafu@snafu27.freeserve.co.uk), January 22, 2001

Answers

Hi Drew, Looking at your set up have you plugged the IDE cable into one of the Raid IDE ports? If so this is likely the reason why it won't detect otherwise the Mobo or Hard Disk might be in some way defective. To partition the hard drive, when you insert your setup disk and boot to the prompt, if your setup disk automaticaly enters windows setup then exit from the setup, to the dos prompt. You should use the FDisk command to partition your hard disk. Set two partitions of whatever size you need making sure you rmember that you set the primary (bootable) partition. Next run Windows setup again and it should detect the Hard disk and proceed to install itself.

John

-- John Holroyd (johnh@aone.co.uk), January 23, 2001.


You will also need to format the drive as for some reason (microsoft) win98se will not install properly from the cd unless the drive partition c is formatted first

Rik

-- richard day (rikkybloke@hotmail.com), March 23, 2001.


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