Hello
I was trying to upgrade a friend’s PC by adding a larger harddive.The original was 1gb and has been made a slave to the new HDD which is 40gb.The problem is the old motherboard only sees up to 8gb.I installed win98SE from the normal fdisk etc and after the install it worked some of the time but would freeze up and shut down when trying to install some programs.I tried to partition the HDD into smaller partitions,but it would only partition 8gb of the HDD not the whole 40gb.I was told this all of this was happening because it was not seeing the harddrive properly.I obtained a copy of Seagate’s Disk wizard which made the BIOS see the whole 40gb and would format the HDD and then say insert OS boot disk from which it would copy thefiles,and then come up with a message saying to install the OS from diskette or bootable CD rom.
When I tried to install from the win98 CD it would not read the CD.I then tried to install from using the boot disk and the CD from which it would begin to install,but then come up with an error message and abort the install.
Is there some way I can fix this problem?Is there a program that will let the board see the whole 40gb and install Win98 SE without any problems or is the board too old?
Any answers greatly appreciated
Thanks
Steve