Hi all,
While trying to install windows afresh on my pc, by loading smartdrv.exe then winnt.exe from a 98 boot disk (for some unknown reason my computer wont boot from cd/dvd drives), as soon as the first blue screen loads it says a drive with at least 477MB of storage is needed. I have two hdds (160gb, 320gb). They are recognised on the first screen when i power on the pc.
I ran fdisk to see if formatting c: would help, but it only comes up with one drive, ~25GB in capacity. I have no such drive in the pc.
I have installed windows before this way and it worked fine. I have tried unplugging the 2nd hdd, switching sata cables and using sata port 2 and 3 instead of 0. The computer boots up fine off the hdd with windows on, but i have had a few bsods(will get minidump of pc and post asap), mostly when copying files between the hdds.
Any help gratefully recieved,
Thanks for reading,
Chris
While trying to install windows afresh on my pc, by loading smartdrv.exe then winnt.exe from a 98 boot disk (for some unknown reason my computer wont boot from cd/dvd drives), as soon as the first blue screen loads it says a drive with at least 477MB of storage is needed. I have two hdds (160gb, 320gb). They are recognised on the first screen when i power on the pc.
I ran fdisk to see if formatting c: would help, but it only comes up with one drive, ~25GB in capacity. I have no such drive in the pc.
I have installed windows before this way and it worked fine. I have tried unplugging the 2nd hdd, switching sata cables and using sata port 2 and 3 instead of 0. The computer boots up fine off the hdd with windows on, but i have had a few bsods(will get minidump of pc and post asap), mostly when copying files between the hdds.
Any help gratefully recieved,
Thanks for reading,
Chris