you need to check the jumpers on both your existing and your new drive to make sure that they are set properly for master and slave. it also could be an IDE cable problem. are you using a cable designed for ATA-66 or faster? is it properly connected with the pins in the right orientation?
Herb....
I am running win98 SE and need to install a new harddrive(samsung 80GB). I have tried rebooting with a startup disk, then fdisk but get the message no fixed disks.
I have tried going into the bios and doing auto detect but pc just hangs when it get to the hard drive.
I can set the hard drive to a removable drive when booting from my original harddrive and it works ok and will format but as soon as i try to put it to a harddrive the computer just hangs.
Any ideas folks? help greatly needed

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