Hello everybody.
I have recently had Windows XP running OK on my machine, but (for reasons I won't get into here) I am going back to Windows 98. I had WinXP running on NTFS and so I zero'd the hard disk, run FDISK (to set 1 partition only - FAT32) and reformatted the disk. Everything with the drive appeared to perfectly OK. The disk booted fine into DOS after the format. Free space etc all reports properly. Then after installing 98, it simply will not boot. In fact, it refused to boot into windows during the first re-boot of the installation process.
So, I re-did the whole proccess again. Same result. I have successfully installed 98 onto this disk a number of times in the past, but it just seems to hang now.
It's a 40GB Baracuda, S.M.A.R.T is reporting no problems, and I'm running it through a 80 pin cable, with cable select pin configuration on IDE1.
Everythings checks out OK, but it simplt hangs FOREVER when attempting to start windows. Autoexec seems to execute OK, it's when it gets to the 'starting windows for the first time' message that it just sits there.
PLEASE - HELP!!