Hard Drive issues downgrading from 2000 to 98?

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Nottoman

I'm trying to install Win 98 on a Presario that had Win2K on it, as Compaq
doesn't supply any drivers for Win2k and advises not to use it on this model
(3550).
I couldn't get the stinking hard drive to come up with a Win98 startup disk,
so I put it as a secondary on a Win2K machine and reformatted it FAT32. It
still won't come up with the startup disk. The disk won't go through the
full sequence.
Any issues here I should be addressing?
 
Hello,

Have you checked to see if the drive is being recognized by the system BIOS.
I would start by ensuring that the disk is configured properly in the BIOS
setup.

Regards,

Ken Simmons

Microsoft Technical Support for Platforms and Business Applications
 
Thanks Ken,
No it wasn't. The BIOS is way out of date '99 and very limited -- it won't
even give me boot up options such as A then C, etc.

Is there a Master Boot record issue here that may be a problem going from
NTFS to FAT32??
 
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