+-geek-+ Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 ok....so...i had an old 200 Mhz P1 with motherboard and 64 megs of ram...a 2 gig HD and a 6 gig HD...i installed XP on the 2 gig and used the 6 to load all my programs and stuff...i get some money and decide to upgrade...got a new P4 mobo with a 1.8 ghz cpu...128 meg ram...i hook everything up.....still with the same HDs...first time i try to boot it up it says NTLDR missing....i go into the cmos....this is the weird part...my computer decides when to see what hard drives...i hit the auto find button thing that searches for the hard drives and sets the stats...first time it sees me second HD but not the first...and thinks its really small....i hit it again....now it sees both...but the wrong sizes...i hit it again and it sees neither....hit it again and it thinks i have a 1853 GIG hard drive....hit it again.....again...its always changing....i go in to reinstal windows it thinks theres no hard drive.....its really screwed up.....if someone thinks they can help me.....or at least get me started...please AIM me on geekofallnerds....thank you!!...i really hope this can be fixed... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caffeinejunkie Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 Do you have a floppy that will format a hardrive ? if so that should work Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-geek-+ Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 (edited) sure i do.....the thing is...i go to use it... format C: invalid drive specification format D: invalid drive specification I just disabled the second hard drive and rebooted.....this is what i got Pri Master HDD error Run Setup press F1 to resume Edited January 7, 2004 by +-geek-+ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caffeinejunkie Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 Thats strange. I would say hd failure but both of them at the same time would be strange. So i don't know. I have had hd die on me but never two in the same comp at the same time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 Sounds like you need to remove the file system and replace it with a Pri Dos Partition using fdisk. Do that they try reformating. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentsoundguy32 Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 sounds to me like that new motherboard just does not like those old hard drives. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-geek-+ Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 my 6 gig is actually fairly new....its a maxtor...that fdisk thing....how would i go about that? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 my 6 gig is actually fairly new....its a maxtor...that fdisk thing....how would i go about that? You need a WIN98 boot disk or a ME one fdisk will be on it, get to a prompt and type fdisk and go from there. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-geek-+ Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 (edited) ok...ill try that next...right now im gonna try installing windows on the 6...ill tell u what happens when i try fdisk hey...its seeing my 2 gig...and it has the right name!!(it was a garble of letters and sybols last time)...im gonna try reinstalling XP on it while i have the chance...i didnt do FDISK yet...if this doesnt work ill go back to that... "windows setup did not find a hard drive..."...ok....back to plan fdisk Edited January 7, 2004 by +-geek-+ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanksta Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 check jumpers, if that helps....... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-geek-+ Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 (edited) which jumpers...hard drive jumpers??...those are set correctly...havent changed sense the p1.. WOOHOO...im getting somewhere...my WIN98SE CD found my 2 gig hard drive....now its formatting it....i guess ill install 98 first...at least get it to boot up...then work from there....it seems like i am definetly getting somewhere...im not sure if any of these posts led to this somehow....but probably in some way they did so THANK YOU SO FAR!!lol....ill tell u what happens when it is done formatting.............oh crap...."setup found an error while formatting....cannot continue installing".....here we go again...im gonna try the same thing with my XP cd this time...hopefully ill get lucky... not this time.."...cannot find hard drive..."..ill keep tryin... im going back to fdisk...can some explain it fully?...do i want to creat a dos partition?..do i want to set active partition?...delete partition?...im pretty sure its the first one....am i right? Edited January 7, 2004 by +-geek-+ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eva_Unit_0 Posted January 7, 2004 Posted January 7, 2004 You'll want to delete all the partitions on both drives, and then create a new primary dos partition on each one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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