Interesting ??
I would run Data Lifeguard Tools from Western Digital to make sure the hard
drives are ok. Use Ver 2.6 or better. It almost sounds like you got a bad
boot disk. I used to go through them alot cause I used the 98 boot disk to
get me where I wanted to be even though I was loading 95/98/ME ect.. I am
wondering why you are doing a 90/10 instead of a 10/90. Are you putting your
OS on the D?

Fred Caldwell
Computerboy


> Good evening,
>
> I have recently run into a problem that I have not seen before.
>
> 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.
>
> I tried a second hard drive with the same results.
>
> I took the hard drive home and tried it in a working machine. The hard
> drive would not boot.
>
> Tonight in a class that I teach, one of my students was building his
> first computer, and he had the same exact problem. He is using a
> totally different motherboard, and the only thing both situations seem
> to have in common, is that they are all Western Digital drives
> purchased in the past few weeks, and the same boot disk was used to
> fdisk and format the drives.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas?
>
> Elizabeth Boston

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