I NEED HELP

[Shaner6950]

I've been tinkering with building and refurbishing PCs for a few years. No formal training. always managed to get them up and running. But lately been have a problem that has me stumped. I use a Win98 SE boot disk to Fdisk and Format my hard drives and then to install the operating system. The problem arises at that point. When I go to the D drive and type in setup the prompt informs me that drive E is not ready and there is no Drive E! I've tried old hard drive and brand new right out of the box. Different Boot disk and even a brand new Mother board. Still get the same message. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG???

 

[Slaymate]

I would skip the boot disk to Fdisk and Format and just let Windows Setup handle it.

 

[Shaner6950]

A blank hard drive? I've never tried that before. I'll try deleting the partition and see if it works.

 

[Shaner6950]

Could there be something in the Bios that can be causing this issue? Anyone have any suggestions.

 

[Neeraj.Tewari]

Sometimes a bad connection could be a simple hardware issue. Are the connectors all working?

 

[Shaner6950]

Yeap all are new. I've never had this problem before. I tried a couple different boot/start up floppys that i've down loaded from on line.