If the Win 95 HD had an overlay on it you might have this problem.  That was often done to allow Win 95 machines to see big drives (like 4.3-6.4 gigs was big then).  Western Digital had their own installation software called EZ-drive.  If you bought a small "big drive" off ebay it may also have an overlay on it. In order to make drives like that useful you will need to find a copy of EZ-drive (if the drive(s) are WD brand), load it on a bootable floppy and remove the overlay.  I think Maxtor had something similar, but you will have to google search because they don't use those anymore. I may have a copy of EZ-drive somewhere, and if you think that is the problem, if the drive is a WD, and if you can't find a download of it with a google search,  I'll e-mail it to you (it is a small download measurable in Kilobytes). Personally, I wouldn't waste that much time on such an old machine because you will have to repeat the overlay to install any drive over 2 gigs.  If you are going to give it away, put the drive back, burn a copy of Win 98 and include that in the gift.  Some enterprising young turbogeek will figure it out.

-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Ledford <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:46:38 -0800
Subject: [PCBUILD] 2 hard drives


Hi guys!

Got another problem! I was given a computer that
originally had Win95 on it. I was going to give it
away after upgrading the OS to Win98. At first I could
not get the floppy drive to work, so I took the hard
drive out and connected it in place of my hard drive.
From that point it was not being recognized, and it
didn't matter which computer I tried it in. In my
computer my harddrive works fine. So I took it to my
stepfather, the unofficial expert in PC repairs. He
too was unable to get either his or the original PC to
recognize it. So, I bought another HD from someone on
ebay, It too doesnot  work in any of the 3 PCs. I
installed the ebay HD in my PC first, and it did
exactly the same as the first one. Thinking I had done
something wrong, I took it to my stepfather, he had
same issue. Neither of us have tried to install our
WinXP HDs in the original PC. (I'm a little skerred
to!) What are the chances of both HDs going bad
suddenly?!  HELP Please!
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