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Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) Garisimo Profile Please advise on the specific hard drive to use in the webplayer... I got a 12mm 4gig Travelstar from Compgeeks (for another brainiac project) and tried (in vain) to get it working last night. I even pulled the DOC with the same results... the system would see the HD (on initial boot and in the bios, with correct info on cylinders, etc) but just blinks a cursor into eternity... So, before I buy another HD to attempt, I wanted to know what others were using in their webplayers. P.S. Doesn't it look like I got goosed when writing my message subject? and wrote down the expletive? 11-29-2000 07:52:40

RE:Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) famewolf Profile You have to make the hard drive bootable and install the required software for it to boot. 11-29-2000 08:06:20

RE:Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) Garisimo Profile Thanks for the quick reply!! By making the hard drive bootable I assume you mean enabling the primary IDE in the BIOS.... Do I need to make other modifications within the BIOS as well? I have tried many variations, including changing the drive jumper from master to cable select.... no dice... so maybe the software I have on the HD is incorrect... I formatted the drive on my desktop PC (win98) and copied over the system files (command.com and its ilk). Then I put all the other stuff (embed98.img, DOC software) on the drive.... Is there somthing else I need to do or put on the drive? -garisimo- 11-29-2000 09:47:30

RE:Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) famewolf Profile GO through the bios and look at the menu options..set any that offer "win95" or "dos" as an option to those as opposed to the default setting of "other". Verify that your PC can boot off the HD before trying it on the webplayer. 11-29-2000 10:51:37

RE:Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email Making a hard drive bootable is usually done using FDISK or some other partition manager on a host system. One usually must be sure that the hard drive to be set up is the only hard drive on the system and you boot up from a windows boot disk. During the boot you need to enter CMOS setup and detect/configure cmos for your hard drive. You need to set it up as a primary dos partition. Your then exit FDISK and do a format /s Verify that you can boot from it. Now you should be able to move it to the not so Virgin (anymore) 11-29-2000 10:54:35

RE:Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) Dag2000 Profile | Email You will also, while FDISKing, need to set the dos partition as the "Active" partition. I hade to make a bootable floppy, with fdisk on it, in order to be able to do this. When I ran Fdisk and tried to set the partition as active, it would only allow the drive connected to the primary master to be made "active". -Dag 11-29-2000 22:28:16

RE:Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) gvonk Profile | Email > I formatted the drive on my desktop PC (win98) and copied over the system files (command.com and >its ilk). Then I put all the other stuff (embed98.img, DOC software) on the drive.... Is there >somthing else I need to do or put on the drive? Well, command.com does not equal an operating system. That's a big part of it. You need to install DOS, or more likely, Windows onto that hard drive. 11-30-2000 01:07:02

RE:Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) Garisimo Profile Big thanks all around. I installed the notebook drive on my desktop pc as the only HD, then fdisked and formatted the bugger. Then, I copied the system files over and the files needed for the DOC. Booted to C:\ on the WP, where I swapped the images. I restarted and Win98 loaded fine, with one hiccup.... the windows database was being update and looking for a file (in the Cabs) but couldn't find it... and when I browsed the files, there was one folder with a crazy garbled name... The embed98 file I d/l might be corrupt, so I am going to re-install it tomorrow. BTW, why is there a drive H: labeled Host for d??? It contains a few files, like command.com, msdos.sys.... I removed the HD, so it shouldn't be that (besides, when I had the HD installed, the HD was D:, the DOC C:, and the Host for d was H:) Thanks again! -g- 11-30-2000 01:12:04

RE:Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) famewolf Profile The Diskonchip is 48 meg..the embed98 image contains a version of win98 compressed with Drivespace III (win 98 disk compression) to allow win98 to fit in that small a space..drive H is the host drive for drive C when booting off the doc...drive C is nothing more then a large file on Drive H. System boots up..reads drive C....renames C to H...reads file on H...creates new C... 11-30-2000 10:26:21

RE:Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) Garisimo Profile Number One Weedhopper here. Thanks for the information, Famewolf. Garisimo 11-30-2000 12:06:57

RE:Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) Garisimo Profile ho boy... just when I thought it was safe... i was having some oddities with the system so thought it would be a good idea to re-d/l the embed98.img and re-install it.. after it goes through the 90,000+ blocks and says ok, i restart and the win98 screen comes up but then a message appears letting me know some .vxd file cannot be found.... yeeeks.... any advice? 12-01-2000 14:33:55

RE:Hard Drive Help and HEY! :) (modified 0 times) Garisimo Profile specifically, it says it is looking for vmm32.vxd.... rats 12-01-2000 15:20:23

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