David davies' post (Clipped)

<<< It seems the disk will not work on win 98.  Win 98se is earliest it will work
on???? >>>

hard disk drives are not operating system specific except for "accessible capacity" of the operating system and this can be overcome by suitably partitioning the drive.therefore IMO the disk should load win 98 also.

<<< I gave up and ordered a new one.>>>

I would not give up so easily on the old disk especially if there is data to be retrieved.

<<< When mover it to master of slave the computer would load past the
initial bios >>>

I presume that with the above your problem is resolved. if not pl. do get back to the forum.

 good luck and have a nice day----Venkat Viswanathan

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