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Alabama1234 · 10-28-2004, 05:53 PM

I repartitioned the drive to 3 6 GB partitions using my desktop and then formated each. I used format/s on C. I then loaded Win 98 (my laptop has an external CD and I must have Windows loaded to access the USB port), again using my desktop. Everything worked fine. When I moved the drive to my laptop I got the initial screen saying to press F1 for setup and immediately the screen changed to a picture with 3 parts. The upper section looked like the front of a floppy drive the middle part looked like a floppy and the bottom section was a series of squares labeled F1-F12. The floppy picture had an arrow moving from the floppy to the front of the drive and the series of blocks had two rows of two blinking arrows pointing toward the F1 square. When I hooked up the floppy drive with the start-up disk, the system started but instead of showing the hard drive installed and made Drive C the drive. Then it said that "Windows 98 has detected that drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT32 partition." It gave 3 causes and then said that diagnostic tools had been loaded onto Drive C. At the a>, fdisk got the response "No fixed disks present." This is exactly where I was before I did this repartition and reformat. Am I missing, or messing up, something? By the way, my old 2 GB hard drive is recognized but has so many damaged sectors that is is really worthless.

10-28-2004, 05:53 PM	#5
Alabama1234 Member (4 bit) Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 13	Still Not Recognized I repartitioned the drive to 3 6 GB partitions using my desktop and then formated each. I used format/s on C. I then loaded Win 98 (my laptop has an external CD and I must have Windows loaded to access the USB port), again using my desktop. Everything worked fine. When I moved the drive to my laptop I got the initial screen saying to press F1 for setup and immediately the screen changed to a picture with 3 parts. The upper section looked like the front of a floppy drive the middle part looked like a floppy and the bottom section was a series of squares labeled F1-F12. The floppy picture had an arrow moving from the floppy to the front of the drive and the series of blocks had two rows of two blinking arrows pointing toward the F1 square. When I hooked up the floppy drive with the start-up disk, the system started but instead of showing the hard drive installed and made Drive C the drive. Then it said that "Windows 98 has detected that drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT32 partition." It gave 3 causes and then said that diagnostic tools had been loaded onto Drive C. At the a>, fdisk got the response "No fixed disks present." This is exactly where I was before I did this repartition and reformat. Am I missing, or messing up, something? By the way, my old 2 GB hard drive is recognized but has so many damaged sectors that is is really worthless.