My old harddrive in my thinkpad was giving me trouble so i bought a brandnew one. Still in the static-resistent packaging. when i put it in and booted the windows 98 install disc up, it ran the usual scans and then said that windows couldn't install cause it couldn't find the harddrive. So what i am wondering is do you have to format brand new harddrives or something? I called my friend and he said that windows 98 should automatically do that for me, but it didn't.