Hey,
We have an old 486 computer that formerly ran win95 until the 1gb harddrive died (a sector…or part of the harddrive). So, I am pretty sure that it can only recognize 1gb harddrives but want to install a ~6gb harddrive that I have already formatted. I want to install win98 on the hd instead of win95. So, I decided we need to partition it and to start with it, we partitioned it on another computer into 2 drives (a 1gb hd and a ~5gb hd) as a slave. Then, since the cd drive doesn’t work due to not having a driver on the 486. We took the setup files from the win98 disk and put it on the harddrive (while connected as a slave on another computer), then accessed these files and ran them through dos on the old 486. Win98 was sucessfully installed, BUT still the same error message keeps showing up where first it says:
PhoenixBIOS(TM) E486 vers. 1.00.19.AMO
Then:
“No installable device found”
and:
“Bios not installed”
Other possibly useless info:
Just to clarify, we can see the files on the hardrive though dos by typing “dir” and have installed win98 on the 1gb partitioned part of the total ~6gb hd. However, we CAN NOT see the ~5gb partition (which we expect).
Should I update the BIOS and how do I do that…..
Or
Do I need to partition the WHOLE HD into 1gb or less drives before it will boot correctly (using partition magic) or is it okay to just have one partition that is 1gb and do all installation from that, then partition the rest later? Thanks a ton for your help.
