You might want to get hold of the Western Digital Diagnostic utilities and
do a thorough examination of the drive for starters.  Then, use the utility,
which is included, that will write zeros to the drive.  Since Win98 fdisk
and format have some limitations with very large drives, you might do better
to boot from your WinXP-CD and run the WinXP install from there, instead of
the Win98 boot disk.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Coulter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 10:53 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive Help


I recently installed a new hard drive. It is a Western Digital. I am trying
to install WinXP on it from scratch. When I try to use fdisk from a floppy
A, it gives me the first big paragraph about being over 512 ....anyway I
press Y and as soon as I hit enter, it says Error Reading Fixed Disk. If I
load off of the XP-CD, it will start, format, etc...it will copy files, then
it says it needs to restart. When it restarts, it goes right back through
the same thing in an endless loop?

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