Disk Boot Failure

[USA 1]

After install of win98 it goes to reboot after install and comes up with disk boot failure.
I see the drive in DOS and put the cabs over on the drive and ran setup locally......Hmmm
Yes the BIOS sees the drive FUJISU 20GIG

[Damned Angel]

does f-disk see a 20g drive or an 8.4g drive?

[USA 1]

It sees all 20.I just switched HD's and MOBO, still does it.I am gonna check Cables and be back.....

[USA 1]

No avail and both 20 Gigs turn out good on other machines.....

[USA 1]

Godd mobo and HD's and cables...WHat now?

[USA 1]

I will che3ck the boot disk's.......@ 5 am

[Damned Angel]

if you just use a disk and format the drive bootable, does is still boot after you cycle the power?

[USA 1]

No....
format c:/s
Thats what I use and tried
/u
as well..........

[Damned Angel]

set cmos to default settings/clear cmos. then try it again.

[Sly]

Two things I over look most of the time are, jumpers on the drive and a non-dos partition on the drive. check both...

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[USA 1]

Well I figured it out.Back about 2 years ago in school we used our boot disks in class and there use to be this virus,called NYB virus.Somehow I was using a win98 boot disk that was infected.I was working on another machine and was gonna do another drive when BammmmmmThe BIOS detected a virus on the floppy....I went Ahhh SH&T...Took it our virus station and sure enough.....NYB.I stood up,looked around at the test bench and had six computers there ,four of them that been in contact with this disk.Need less to say I balled the disk up in half in my hand 2 points to the garbage can.
SOLUTION:
Uninfected boot disk brought back my marvelous 20gigs! <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0">

[USA 1]

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