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by ervin_rob2002

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i installed win98 on a harddrive from a running machine A,than installed the same harddrive in a nother machine to make it function. I booted the machine B and got a floppy error and no win98(can't read from disk...press any key to continue) can anyone help :0

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by thechas

A floppy error on boot usually means that the floppy drive cable is backward.

If not, the drive may be set as the wrong type in BIOS settings.

The non-boot from the hard drive could be a number of things.
Was the drive the C: drive on the other PC?
If not, you need to run fdisk, and make the primary partition active.

Was/is there more drives on either system?
Many drives have different jumper setting requirements if the drive is a single versus a master with slave present.

If thehard drive was a D: drive on the other system, did the C: drive have a drive overlay program running to allow the PC to access large hard drives?

Is BIOS detecting the drive properly?

Are the chip-sets on both motherboards the same?

While this should not be a big issue at boot, if the chip-sets are different, Windows may have problems once it starts loading drivers.

I know this is a big list, but your question leaves things a bit open ended as to what could be the problem.

Pleaseadd a comment with full details of both systems.

Chas

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