Hi John & Fred,

I actually did not get time to work on this further until today.

It appears that it was the boot floppy. I had to remove the partitions
already on the drive, reboot and then run fdisk again with a fresh
windows 98 boot disk. The hard drive was only 20 Gigs, and I have used
the same motherboard/drive combination at least a half dozen times in
the past few months.

Tomorrow, I will take the drive back to school and make sure it works
on the machine that it started out in.

Elizabeth Boston
-----Original Message-----

Hi Elizabeth

I expect you've figured this out already on your own. More information
would be useful to narrow down the issues, since there are a number of
reasons for this problem.

You probably have a large ATA100 drive requiring a matching specialty
cable, using the special ATA100 motherboard connector, setting special
ATA/SCSI boot option in CMOS, perhaps needing drivers in Windows, and
the
like. Check all of these things.

Windows 98 should not have boot issues unless that 90% utilized drive
is
really huge. There are size limits to Boot Partition in Windows (I
don't
recall the sizes but 8GB comes to mind as a drive limit).

Good luck.

John Chin


At 11:09 PM 10/18/2001 Elizabeth Boston wrote:
>Good evening,
>
>
>I was setting up a new computer and everything went as usual. I
>partitioned the hard drive into two partitions. C: is 90% of the
>drive, and D: is 10%. I set the first partition as active, re-booted
>and then formatted both drives. I began to install windows 98, and
>during the first re-boot of the install, it stopped with message
>telling me it couldn't boot, please insert boot CD. I double checked
>everything I had done, and checked the boot sequence in the BIOS.
>Everything looked like it should be fine.
>
>. . .

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