Help reinstalling my W98SE PC

[SMHarman]

Type FDISK,
it asks about large disk support, select yes. Then says disk error

Is this because the PC is an antique or the disk is DOA.

This is the disk
http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/at...ifications.htm
120Gb
This is the PC Spec
http://support.gateway.com/support/s...?sn=0010974567

Must say I find it impressive they still have this info for a PC shipped in September 1998.
Motherboard is
Anigma Pentium II Motherboard w/ Integrated AGP/Audio/DVD [Part #4000274]

Thanks all in anticipation

[SMHarman]

Found this - does it help?

Q11. How can I increase hard disk capacity?
A11. If you want to upgrade or replace your IDE hard disk drive with one of the newer large capacity IDE disks (> 528MB capacity), there are three general solutions:

a BIOS upgrade
an Extended IDE (EIDE) controller card
software drivers supplied by most manufacturers of large EIDE hard disks.
An up-to-date BIOS is the most trouble-free solution for using large IDE hard disks. It is compatible with both your motherboard and nearly all major operating systems. The BIOS installed on your motherboard must provide Logical Block Addressing (LBA), at minimum, to support large hard disk drives.

Any Phoenix BIOS identified as Version 1.xx is limited to handling IDE hard disks no larger than 528MB. The Award 4.28 and 4.32A BIOS used in the Anigma EISA 486 board has the same limitations. As a general rule, any Phoenix BIOS identified as 4.xx is capable of handling EIDE hard disks up to 2.1GB in capacity. The latest MicroFirmware BIOS upgrades allow you to install the largest EIDE hard disks available. Contact MicroFirmware for BIOS upgrade information. All MicroFirmware BIOS upgrades support LBA plus other advanced BIOS features.

If you decide to investigate an EIDE controller card solution, you must have one which supports LBA, at minimum.

Software solutions to the large IDE hard disk problem are not universal. They apply only to the operating system that you use, sometimes requiring an exact software release to operate correctly. Generally, they require that you set up a conventional DOS partition on the hard disk, then run a software install program which adds drivers and other special software to your system to give you access to the additional hard disk capacity.

Finally, if your system uses SCSI hard disks, refer to the manufacturer-supplied documentation for the SCSI host adapter installed on your system. This documentation describes the capacity limitations, if any, of the SCSI host adapter. Modern SCSI host adapters support very large hard disks with little extra effort on your part.
http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/mi.../anigma.htm#Q9

[bopdude]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

Type FDISK,
it asks about large disk support,
Thanks all in anticipation

I seem to remember something about win '98 not being able to read some hdd's above 60 Gb ( I think ) Not sure what the fix was but there IS a way AFAIK, will look around seen it somewhere

[swoop101]

you used the magic word MAXTOR

get maxblast3 from http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/dow...xblast3win.htm

download it and let it do the work for you.

[SMHarman]

Sorted - at 2:56 am...

Maxtor HDDs don't have a Master/Slave/CableSelect, they have a master and CS, if you remove the jumper it is slave.

And then it all worked.

MaxBlast ran and its all running

Only thing I don't seem to be able to get rid of is a password request box for windys networking. Anyone know if you can? It appears when Windows starts. I'd just like this PC to be able to restart without any prompts so I don't need a screen plugged in to restart it.