boot problem

Hi,

At a guess, I'd say your motherboard wont support a large hard drive. I expect your new one is 20+ Gb?

You may be able to resolve this by updating your BIOS if there is a new version for your motherboard, otherwise you may need to use a disk management utility such as

Disk Manager, EZ-Drive, or DrivePro

Check out the following Microsoft article for more information...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q128730

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You'll find the BIOS upgrade on your motherboards manufacturer's webite. Or you may not... It sounds like a very old motherboard.

Failing all that, you may need to upgrade the motherboard. You'll also need new memory, a new CPU and a new case at a minimum if you go down that track so it may be worthwhile investing in a new system altogether.

Cheers,
Tim.

This is just a guess since you do not give any specs on the HD, or say how you know it is good, especially since it failed on boot. Check the HD's specs for compatibility with the older PC. The PC may not have the juice to drive the drive.
Can you provide more information for a more specific answer? Is this drive a replacement or an addition? Is the HD "brand new"? Has it been formatted and partitioned? etc. Need more input.

Tim is correct, your motherboard can't identify the new drive.
Many older motherboards had assorted drive size limits.
540MB,
2GB
8.4GB
If the drive is larger than any of these steps, the motherboard just can't deal with it.

As Tim stated, adrive overlay program is your lowest cost option to deal with this.

I wouldn't even try to mess with it.
I have seen "bare-bones" Pentium systems on the web for $10.
Since you have a hard drive, you would be pretty much set to go.
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Chas

Win 98 requires 486/66 with 24mb ram. Even if you get this computer to boot, you are going to be really unhappy with the performance.

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