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Topic: SATA Hard Drive help
Posted: February 26 2010 at 7:50am

a few months ago i built a new pc and i brought this hard drive which is a 500gb. it uses the sata interface when i try to install windows 98( its the only non upgrade os i have) it keeps telling me to download widows to the floppy disk, which i dont have. no instructions came with the hard drive its all in the motherboard book which is a Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3, it says its recommended to use 2 of the exact hard drives to prevent raid, but you can use 1 if needed. The hard drive shows that its in (E:) and its in IDE channel 1 master.

so my question is how the heck can i get windows on my new hard drive?maybe need to get a higher OS? the book says to install XP vista or 7 but my XP is only the upgrade version.. is 98 not compatible?

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Posted: February 26 2010 at 9:49am

Appears to me its a motherboard issue.The chipset will not run 98/me.

Can see if your mobo has a updated bios/chipset "driver".

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Posted: February 26 2010 at 10:13am

If you download the full version of the XP you have and use the CD key?

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Posted: February 26 2010 at 11:10am

If I remember correctly, Win 98 (FE/SE) both had a 'boot floppy' option...yes the 3.5" variant. You can run/install the Win 98 (Exactly what version you have, i don't know) right from the CD; but this won't let you do the required "fdisk" command. As the 3.5" boot disk acts as a 'portable OS' allowing any setup requirements to take place; also as stated above, Win 98 (FE, if you have this one) doesn't allow for SATA interfaced physical drives; I think it will recognize SCSI interfaced physical drives. I think 98 SE also doesn't support SATA.

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Posted: February 26 2010 at 11:46am

I just wonder why some 1 wants to install Win98, all kind of windows on isohunt.com, found there clean windows of any kind, using Xp x 64 for months without any problem its activated, downloads the updates and its not any light, black or some stupid modification.I have legit Xps and vistas, i prefer this one first of all because its 64 bit, its english and dont crash!God bless the seeders.

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Posted: February 26 2010 at 4:26pm

Originally posted by Cresil

i prefer this one first of all because its 64 bit, its english and dont crash!God bless the seeders.

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Posted: February 26 2010 at 4:50pm

Thanks for your help.

i dont download bootleg copys of windows srry. lol

btw its second edition i got a windows me os but thats just the upgrade also might aswell go buy vista or 7 save the hassle and time

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Posted: February 26 2010 at 7:01pm

I'd try sticking in the XP upgrade and see if it will boot from it. If so try to install.

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Posted: February 27 2010 at 8:00am

i did that as well.after it reboots during the installation process to move on to next step of installing XP upgrade it repeats it self from the beginning of the download.

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Posted: February 27 2010 at 10:49am

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=SATA_Troubleshooter_-_Windows_98_Me_Installation_Basics&vgnextoid=f3c44a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

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Posted: February 27 2010 at 3:29pm

thanks man ill look into it more a little later.

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