Win98 on new HD problem

[Mr. P]

Building a new computer, and am having some problems getting win98 installed on it.

The system consists of:
-Asus A7V mobo
-AMD 950TB
-128 PC133 Micron Ram
-Maxtor 20.4GB HD
-Asus v7100 32MB geforce2 MX

The problem I am having is that whenever I get into the install of Win98, it will go completely through the install with no problems. For some reason I cannot get the HD to recognize that there is a c:-drive. It will read my a: and d:(CD) with no problems. I have tried using both the Maxtor Utility and the win98 start-up disk and continue to have the same problem. I have also played around with the HD bios settings from auto and manual setting. If anyone has any ideas please let me know, any help would be greatly appreciated.

jeremy

[hapoo]

can you access the drive through a startup disk? is the HD formated yet?

[Mr. P]

Well, that's the problem. I cannot get it to recognize that there is a c: to even format it. And I cannot access it through a boot up disk either. This thing has me puzzled considering how smoothly everything has gone up to this point.

[hapoo]

so you can't even see it in the bios??? In that case make sure the cable is attached correctly, Is the drive set to Master/Slave??

[Mr. P]

It shows up as my Primary Master in bios, and it tells me exactly what's there. It picked that up through auto detection.

[hapoo]

did you set up a partition in FDisk?

[Mr. P]

OK, I went ahead and reran the maxtor utility, and cleaned out the hard drive again. This time I set it up into 2 partitions.... c: and d:. Now it boots up just perfectly, I have formatted both drives, and set c: as my bootable drive. It does just fine getting into the dos c: prompt at bootup, but NOW my cd-rom is not listed as a drive, which means I cannot access my win98 setup cd now. After reboot, just before the c: prompt i get an message:

C:\>C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /M:10
Bad command or filename

The system bios does find the cd-rom listed as my secondary master. I have tried changing the autoexec.bat and config.sys because the cd-rom should be located at E:, but it still made no difference, I get the same error just with an E in place of the D above. Maybe this is an easier fix. Thanks.

jeremy

[Mr. P]

OK, win98 is up and running. Apparently I had a bad startup disk. Ended up downloading one from a website and it worked perfectly.

jeremy