Help needed, please

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I have just installed a new hard drive, cdrom, floppy drive and graphics
card into a pentium 2 450mhz I switched it on and everything seems to be
working ..I went into the bios to set up the hard drive (just to make sure)
and when it boots, on the initial screen it doesnt show that it has found
the hard drive but it is there in the bios. So I let it continue to the
"verifying (DMI/PMI ??) Data" and it stops and shows me this "remove disks
or media and press any button to continue"...so i press any button and it
just repeats itself...I have tried pressing F8 continuously but cant get to
the C:prompt...so I cant format the disk or do anything else to it.
 
| I have just installed a new hard drive, cdrom, floppy drive and graphics
| card into a pentium 2 450mhz I switched it on and everything seems to be
| working ..I went into the bios to set up the hard drive (just to make
sure)
| and when it boots, on the initial screen it doesnt show that it has found
| the hard drive but it is there in the bios. So I let it continue to the
| "verifying (DMI/PMI ??) Data" and it stops and shows me this "remove disks
| or media and press any button to continue"...so i press any button and it
| just repeats itself...I have tried pressing F8 continuously but cant get
to
| the C:prompt...so I cant format the disk or do anything else to it.
|


Startup with a bootable floppy that includes the fdisk and format files.
This assumes you are working with a new harddrive that has not been
"fdisked" and formatted. Do the fdisk and format routines.

Make sure that the floppy is listed as the first boot device in your BIOS.

Also make sure that your BIOS supports the new harddrive's size.
 
booting from? a floppy into DOS?

You want to get to the A: prompt i think, in this situation, You need a Win 9x/Me startup disk(floppy)

Bios is set to 'AUTO' detect the hardddrives?(IDE)

"Intial screen" meaning the POST, where it shows the hardware, IRQ's, and Processor speed it does NOT show the HD?
Or is it the fact that it halts before it gets to the C: prompt, that made you say that?
 
Bishoop said:
| I have just installed a new hard drive, cdrom, floppy drive and graphics
| card into a pentium 2 450mhz I switched it on and everything seems to be
| working ..I went into the bios to set up the hard drive (just to make
sure)
| and when it boots, on the initial screen it doesnt show that it has found
| the hard drive but it is there in the bios. So I let it continue to the
| "verifying (DMI/PMI ??) Data" and it stops and shows me this "remove disks
| or media and press any button to continue"...so i press any button and it
| just repeats itself...I have tried pressing F8 continuously but cant get
to
| the C:prompt...so I cant format the disk or do anything else to it.
|


Startup with a bootable floppy that includes the fdisk and format files.
This assumes you are working with a new harddrive that has not been
"fdisked" and formatted. Do the fdisk and format routines.

Make sure that the floppy is listed as the first boot device in your BIOS.

Also make sure that your BIOS supports the new harddrive's size.
Click to expand...
OOoops should have said,,, I tried booting from disk too :-) ..and the hard
drive is 10mb and I had it in my computer but decided to take it out so I
formatted it before I took it out of my machine back to fat 32 as I want to
install doze 98. I just cant get to the C: prompt. as soon as I get there
I will be able to do everything else its just getting there..

tia
 
yes the post screen, it says none but when i restart and look in the bios
again the hard drive is there.

JAD said:
booting from? a floppy into DOS?

You want to get to the A: prompt i think, in this situation, You need a Win 9x/Me startup disk(floppy)

Bios is set to 'AUTO' detect the hardddrives?(IDE)

"Intial screen" meaning the POST, where it shows the hardware, IRQ's, and
Click to expand...
Processor speed it does NOT show the HD?
 
Yes bios is set to auto


lil ol me said:
yes the post screen, it says none but when i restart and look in the bios
again the hard drive is there.

and
Processor speed it does NOT show the HD? made
you say that? get
Click to expand...
 
You got to put a autoexec.bat and config.sys file on the boot disk.

Make a bootable floppy.

I think the command is "bootdisk" in dos.....but lazyness has got the
better of me and I can't confirm that.
 
How do you plan on booting to C: when you have no Partition on the hard
drive and no operating system???


Try a boot disk in the Floppy or in the CDROM. Win98 has to have a
bootable floppy and Winxp can boot from the CDROM.


You have to use Fdisk or the fdisk on the winxpcd to make a partition and
extended partition and logical drive, and mark a partition as
bootable, and format C:/ with a file system and an operating system.
 
OOoops should have said,,, I tried booting from disk too :-)
Click to expand...

Why "too"? I assume you tried W98install-CD boot as first?
Your first goal is to boot!
As long as you haven't even made it to the A: prompt ?
Which you're not too clear about, there's no reason to get excited
about the hd or C:.
..and the hard
drive is 10mb and I had it in my computer but decided to take it out so I
formatted it before I took it out of my machine back to fat 32 as I want to
install doze 98. I just cant get to the C: prompt. as soon as I get there
I will be able to do everything else its just getting there..
Click to expand...

If a boot floppy boots correctly, but command.com doesn't let you see
C: Then just a hunch, bootfloppy needs to support FAT32 since that's
how you formatted it. Doesn't explain why an install CD should fail to
find C: though...


ancra
 
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