Q: Ok, im trying to upgrade my new machine from 98 to win2k. Before the actual upgrade, check the win2k disk. It gave me an error message that the hard disk is currupted and that the installation could not continue. I know for a fact the hard drive is not currupted because I bought it yesterday and I installed 98 on it without problems.
Has ecountered anyone help?
Re:remove your sound and modem cards, fdisk a 2gig partition for w98 and a 6gig for w2k, format both fat32, install w98, then w2k install, hit f6 at the very start of the install of w2k "when it ask", install the ata100 drivers and it should continue.
DL sp2 update asap and when all is cool, start installing your cards one at a time back.
get PM and finish sizing up the rest of your drive.
CU8er
Pete
Re:Ok, so ill upgrade to the latest bios and ill reformat prior to installing the OS. Ill let you know how it goes. Thanks again
If anyone has anymore suggestions please dont hesitate to mention it
Re:Before installing a new OS, it makes sense to ensure that all your hardware is installed properly (no loose cards or cables) and upgraded to the latest BIOS or firmware drivers. Immature BIOS and firmware revisions can have all kinds of bugs, so without having installed the latest versions, the kind of quirky problem that you are having would be impossible to properly diagnose.
Upgrade your mobo BIOS, and if you're still having the same problem, I will offer alternative approaches.
Re:hmmm, first thanks for the quick reply
1. Ok, its a brand new Western Digital 60 gig 5400 rpm hard drive.
2. When i installed Windows 98 at first, it formatted the WHOLE hard drive before the installation
3. I have a Transcend Ali magic chipset DDR board. There is a newer bios but is this the real solution?
Anymore responses?
Re:What's the size of the hard drive? Something tells me you have an outdated motherboard BIOS, which forced you to format the drive below its full capacity, and Win2k is complaining about that.
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