Thank you David, John, + All:

Thank you everybody for your tips and suggestions.  I went back and made
sure I used  the correct boot disk, (Win95 B), f-disked,  and the
complete hard drive was recognized right off the bat.   Sad thing is I
did my usual thing, forgot the KISS rule  (keep it simple stupid) and
immediately jumped to the more
complicated, or far reaching ideas.

While thinking about it:  Is there a way to extract a copy of the Win 98
program off of this drive?  I can make a full backup to CD but would end
up with loads of other programs which they may or may not want in the
future.  I know Windows is set to use several .cab files, but i don't
think simply backing up these would suffice?

Thank you
David A. Abbe
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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 06:17:02 -0600 "David A. Abbe" <[log in to unmask]>
writes:

 I stuck a new 6.1 gig with win98 pre-loaded into a machine, tried to
boot, used the boot disk, went into fdisk and under file system, it said
Unknown.  The machine is a somewhat older Packard Bell with a bios date
of 1992. I do know the
machine was running win95A on a 1.5 gig maxtor beforehand and ran fine.
But then again, in Cmos, it recognizes the hard drive just fine.

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