I have a Window 98 Gateway which had an IBM Deskstar 64.1GB hard drive that provided me with eight YEARS of service. A few days ago it passed away. YES, the dreaded tick...tick...tick of death. I have since purchased another IBM Deskstar, but with 76.8 GB. The system is not auto detecting the new hard drive. I've tried the FDISK path, but I can't even FDISK. In the BIOS SETUP mode the master hard drive is nowhere to be found. My jumpers are set as the master hard drive. I'm suspecting I may need a driver for this hard drive. How can I load a driver on the system if it won't boot up? I'm curently using my Windows 95 computer as a backup. I only have a 1.44 DISK for DOWNLOADING. Any thoughts or ideas. Thanks.you can pop in a copy of Win 95 or even Win 98 and boot from the CD.
to load the drivers.Remove all drives except the new one...
Then boot up and see if the BIOS recognises it...
If so DLoad a fresh copy of a Win98SE bootdisk from bootdisk.com...
Select the one with CDROM support and follow the info on creating a bootable floppy...
Re-boot with the floppy in and you should be able to run FDISK from there.