Boot disk failure

If you have the WIN98 install CD, try putting the old drive as master and the new one as slave. Repair the WIN98 and that may get you into the new drive.

Its possible the hard drive has died. If this is the case everything stored on it is lost. If your older hard drive has sufficient space you could set it as master and install xp on it.
A tip I have is to have two hard drives and use one for backups in case of disk failure.

Try the "Questions" forum; the "Discussion" forum is for matters of general discussion, not specific problems in search of a solution.

Post problems such as this to the "Question" forum, rather than the "Discussion" forum. There are those who specifically seek out problems in need of a solution, and that's where they go to look for such.

Additionally there are the benefits that:

1) The "Questions" forum provides for your feedback, by way of your being able to mark "helpful" responses as such. This does not necessarily mean that a given response contained the complete solution to your problem, but only that it served to guide you toward it. This is intended to serve as an aid to those who may in the future have a problem similar to yours, so that they might have a ready source of reference available, thereby perhaps obviating the need for them to repeat questions previously asked and answered.

2) The revised TR makes it quite difficult to find both "Discussions" and "Questions" that have not had a fairly recent post, owing to some functions comingling them in the listings. By keeping each type in their respective forums, it is easier for all to find what they are looking for.

Dear Ccallis,
I also have a similar problem with another computer I have and luckily I was able to obtain all information from that computer's hard drive by simply installing it on my second good computer I have as an additional hard drive. From there I have found that you can either transfer the data over yourself or use
something like acronis easy migrate 7.0 to clonbe the info on the bad hard drive to the second hard drive. BUT BE CAREFUL! When doing this make sure you don't the hook up the bad HD as the primary HD or it will try and boot from it instead of the good one on the other computer.
-Best of Luck, Kennjame62