I had a similiar problem with WIN98 OEM. If "I" formatted the hard drive, there were problems later. If I let the WIN98 install format the drive, then everything was fine. This might help. Ron Jobe On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:13:31 -0500 Elizabeth Boston <[log in to unmask]> writes: ---snip--- > Today, I took out the used hard drive, put in a brand new WD >3G >hard drive, ran Fdisk, formatted the drive, and proceeded to >install a brand new OEM windows 98. Everything goes fine, until >Windows 98 detects the hardware, then on the re-boot, it hangs on >the black screen that says updating files, please wait. > I had been busy elsewhere, so it probably waited 20 minutes >before I noticed. I rebooted, and now it hung right after >"Verifying DMI pool data" shows on the screen. I can boot into >safe mode, but am not sure what to do once there... I tried to >create a bootlog.txt, but was unable to find the file once I had >again booted into safe mode. ---snip--- ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] PCBUILD only works if you contribute. Send your messages to be posted to: [log in to unmask]