Did you remember to format the new drive?  Installing Win 98 was one of the easier installs I've ever done.  Just installed it in 2/01 on a new WD 30 gig 7200 rpm drive.  Do a google search (www.google.com) for "installing Windows 98". I found a detailed list of instructions, right down to all the DOS codes. You might try pulling the power plugs on your other drives so you only have your C drive running when you do the installation.

>----         Diana Benoit <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hard drive is brand new and I've used the OS disk before very successfully
>> -- not a mark on it.  All the drives are new.  I know I didn't include
>> them in the original list of what's on the system (it was well after
>> midnight when I wrote) but I have a 40g hard drive, CD-ROM and CD-RW
>> also in the system.  Anyway, it is a genuine MS copy.  I do have Win
>> 2000, but have never used it and was hoping to
>> set up my new system with what I know and go from there.  Might just
>> have to go with Win 2000.  Thanks.
>>
>> joseph marty wrote:
>>
>> > If I were having trouble installing the OS, first thing I'd look
>> at is the copy of the OS, then the drive.  Can you borrow a clean hard
>> drive to see if your CD will install Win 98 SE on it?  Do you have
>> a real, genuine MS copy of Win 98 SE, or did someone burn a CD copy?
>>  A few days ago a lister had problems installing Win 2K, but could
>> install Win 98.  Turned out he had a bad copy of Win 2K.
>> >
>> > Just finished putting together my third system and have run into
>> something that
>> > >never happened to me before.  My system is as follows:
>> > >
>> > >Pentium III Intel Celeron 1000MB
>
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