[exhaust18]

My system specs are:

Celeron 466@507
Soyo 6BA+III Slot 1
224 MB SDram
Ati Rage Fury 32mb


I have a WD 13GB harddrive for primary master. I recently got a 30GB Quantum lct20. My motherboard only supports ata33 and the 30GB is ata100. I went out and bought an ata100 cable thats backwards compatible with ata33. My bios recognizes the secondary master 30GB, same as in windows xp. Windows recognized and installed my drive correctly but everytime I try to access it is says this drive is not formatted do you want to format it now. I click yes and it just stays on 0% forever. So far I have been unable to use this drive. What can be the problem?

[repo man11]

You could go to www.bootdisk.com , and get a Win98 bootdisk, and format it with Fdisk. You ought to be able to do it the way you are trying, but some sort of glitch is preventing it. So try that and see what happens.