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got the pci ata controler card to work also got the new 20 gb seagate hd to work. was a pain to get it to work in windows 98 but i did.

of course it would not have been as much trouble if i had any schooling in this stuff but since i dont


first i had to set up the drivers that was not too hard.

second i had to figure out what was making the bios see the hd and not windows. that did take some time.

but i finaly was either so tired i just did what was normal and did not try and think about it or i am just a super smart person and a genius?


but the rest of you must know this so i will say i was just tired enough to do it with out thinking.

but the hd needed to be FDisked first then formated and it was then useable.

now how did i know about the Fdisk if i never had any trainning in this computer stuff.

i did kind of have some trainning i was trying to learn qbasic by teaching myself on an old 386 30hrz computer did learn some of the programs from that i guess? did not learn qbasic but i got some walking help from all that trying


now if i can just figure out the power supply on the other computer??





Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1207, old post ID:10640

FDisk, something I always forget when installing a new HDD.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1207, old post ID:10662

Yep, forget that, and you'll never see the drive. I wonder what the F in fdisk means. I would think format, but fdisking is not really formatting... I think I know what the F *really* means.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1207, old post ID:10677