Here's the story,
I finished my last day of classes on Thursday, and could not wait to get home to see the family. Unfortunately, I knew I had one last task before I could leave: the dreaded reformat. I won't go into the details of why I just had to reformat and load the new os, but I did. Doing so meant that I had to backup all of the past semesters work plus other things. Knowing all that would extend my stay, I started Thursday afternoon. Everything was going fine until I realized that my BIOS had to be flashed before I could load Win2K or XP, so that stalled me a while (I'm new to this type of thing). I finally got that done (earlier today), but then when the XP disk got through the initial setup, it said that it couldn't find my hard drive. Then just to see if something was wrong with XP, I tried the Win2K disk and got the same message. So, if anybody knows what I'm doing wrong please let me know. I just want to get home for Christmas. Thanks.
Details:
mobo - BP6 Socket 370 dual celeron - flashed with latest bios (BP6_RU.bin)
OS Win2K or WinXP (I don't care at this point)
HDrive - IBM UMDA/66 15gig
I finished my last day of classes on Thursday, and could not wait to get home to see the family. Unfortunately, I knew I had one last task before I could leave: the dreaded reformat. I won't go into the details of why I just had to reformat and load the new os, but I did. Doing so meant that I had to backup all of the past semesters work plus other things. Knowing all that would extend my stay, I started Thursday afternoon. Everything was going fine until I realized that my BIOS had to be flashed before I could load Win2K or XP, so that stalled me a while (I'm new to this type of thing). I finally got that done (earlier today), but then when the XP disk got through the initial setup, it said that it couldn't find my hard drive. Then just to see if something was wrong with XP, I tried the Win2K disk and got the same message. So, if anybody knows what I'm doing wrong please let me know. I just want to get home for Christmas. Thanks.
Details:
mobo - BP6 Socket 370 dual celeron - flashed with latest bios (BP6_RU.bin)
OS Win2K or WinXP (I don't care at this point)
HDrive - IBM UMDA/66 15gig