After checking to make sure the partition was active according to Bob's suggestion, I figured that it was because I was using a Win98 boot disk to fdisk and reformat, and not the ones that came with dos 6.22. After I did that, the computer booted fine. Thanks for all your help everyone. > hmm... could be that drive parameters are incorrectly set or were > incorrectly set on the machine the HD was created on, copy them > exactly from BIOS to BIOS... > > if this was a second drive in the orig. system, it could be an inactive > partition... use any partition manager - I believe FDISK is good - to > activate it. Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html