Dear John, I found that most older scsi hardrives probably used  Win NT 4 or
older and were formatted to NTFS or Fat 16. This created a problem when I
was trying to install another operating system like Win 95 or 98. Win 98 did
not recognize it. What I did
to fix it was by using Win 2k. I just connected the harddrive to my other
cpu. With Win 2k, I entered into Adminstration tools, entered Computer
Management folder, Clicked on Storage, clicked on Disk Manager, and there I
was able to removed the partions, reformat the HD  to Fat 32 and
then Win 98 was able to recognize the HD. Hope this helps! John Flores
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From: "John Hudson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:54 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Refurbished systems


> I usually build new systems and repair older ones.  I have had a few
> requests for a basic get online check email burn a cd type machine.  As
> M.Sawyer said in a an earlier post most dont want to by used.  Well my
> customers have indicated that they want to so i bought a few 15 off lease
> systems and all of them have scsi hard drives in them pentium 2 350 mhz 64
> megs of ram all i had to do is ad cd and os and they are out the door in
> theory. Heres the catch I have never had any luck installing an os onto a
> system that has a a scsi drive this particular system does not read the HD
> or cd rom which will pick up in my non scsi machine.  Any Ideas as to how
I
> can get this white elephant to get out of the door
>
> Thanks
>
> John Hudson
>
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