Hey folks,
When i try to put a new maxtor 8.4 gig HD in my system everything goes fine until I am prompted to put in my startup disk to load window95, (I have AST so I put in the floppy for it). this floppy enables the cd and gets up to the point of copying the restore disk, then I get a message like, No Hard Drive found, use the appropriate utility to format disk. Thing is I used the Maxtor utility to format and partition with no problem. I have looked at my documentation for the disk and see there is alot to consider when putting a large HD on Windows 95, (I have osr1 with the service pack 1 so I currently have 4.00.95a)I went ahead and did the jumpers as Maxtor said if there is a capacity issue (J50 and J46). I also tried to do a user defined on the bios to do 16 heads 63 cylinders and 1023 in other categories. Maxtor says I should also disable LBA. Well nothing says anything about LBA in my AST Bios Rel. 1.02. What do you think? Is LBA the problem? Should I try to update the bios? Should I try to put 95 on the system without using the AST restore disk? I have a Win95 companion disk. If anyone can clarify this it would be great, I'm calling Maxtor tomorrow so eventually I will lick this, but I've always found, more info, better than less. thanx