lunarloop
October 16th, 2003, 11:03 PM
Can't install win98, says must put MSDOS partition first. I bought a cheap little pentium 400 to fix up to give to a kid who doesn't have a PC. It is an HP, appears it was used for business purposes. It is a Vectra. It has one of those complicated setups. If I put in the CDROM boot floppy for win98, and the win98 CD in the tray, it tells me I will have to put an MSDOS partition on before windows can be set up. If I put in disk to put on MSDOS partition, it tells me no hard drive is present, or it is not working propers, or needs a specific driver. I feel like the hard disk is probably good, and it just has all of this proprietary stuff out there. Does anyone know how to break through this armour, to prepare this drive properly for win98? I sure would appreciate it. I really want to give this little girl a computer.