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"Brand new pc!! Prob - cnt see HD!"

hiya guys, after much excitement my brand new custom PC arrived.
To cut costs, i requested that no OS was installed, as i already have win98, which im content enough with.

So im all up and running, put in the windows CD in, and it says i have nowhere to write to. I check, and yes, the C: doesnt exist, it cat write on the HD yet.

So where now? Any help would be much appreciated!!

thanks
J.

K, it wont find anything on the floppy, but will find bootable stuff from the W98 CD. So i jus hit start computer with CD support.

Now im at a:\
Dir checks the disk and finds all the files it should do from the boot disk.
Typing fdisk tells me that

No fixed disks present.

!?!? is this a prob i have becoz im lucky enough to inherit a broken computer?
I wanna cry! :(

Thx for responding TB,

Boot disk in,

This is what i get:

Searching for Boot Record from CDROM..Not found
Searching for boot record from SCSI..Not found

Boot Failure
Insert BOOT Diskette in A:
Press any key

So i made sure the disk was in, check, made sure it was an actual boot disk, check. Still repeats the above. It doesnt even sound as if it checks the disk.

You may have to manually format your HDD although I'd have thought Win98 would do this itself. Get a DOS bootdisk, put it in the floppy drive, boot up and use fdisk to format the C drive into Fat32, and you'll be fine.

But, I would *really* recommend you get yourself a copy of Win2K or WinXP, because 98 is fantastically lame.

K, ive located the CMOS thingy in the bios, and next to the Primary IDE Master, it says: Not Installed.

Then it has a list

Type >>> Auto
Cylinders
Heads
Write Precompensation
Sectors

Maximum Capacity
LBA Mode
Block Mode
Fast Programmed I/O Modes
32 Bit Transfer Mode

i dont know any of this information about my hard drive at all. Am i screwed or is there still a way round?

hiya guys, after much excitement my brand new custom PC arrived.
To cut costs, i requested that no OS was installed, as i already have win98, which im content enough with.

So im all up and running, put in the windows CD in, and it says i have nowhere to write to. I check, and yes, the C: doesnt exist, it cat write on the HD yet.

So where now? Any help would be much appreciated!!

thanks
J.