One of the things that I've had to hang a PC during Windows installation is
the Internal or L2 cache being enabled during the install.  As a matter of
routine, I now disable the internal cache in the BIOS before a Windows
install and then re-enable after installation and all the re-boots are
completed.  Something to try and it may not be related to the hard drive
size.

Doug


At 7/31/2001 02:13 PM, Roy Sparacino wrote:

>Hi, Im sure most of us have run into this before. I have an older generic
>MOBO and an AMD K6 @266MHZ. I am trying to install Windows 98 on a Maxtor
>8.4 Gig drive. The installation goes typically well until the end when it
>searches for devices and attemps to locate and install the appropriate
>drivers. At this point it reboots itself once successfully but the second
>restart is unsuccessful. IT HANGS forever.

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