Gah! Help!

[Psionicist]

Assumption is the brother of all ups.

Seriously. Did you jumper (master/slave/cable select) the 20GB drive correctly?

 

[thatdarncat]

Assumption is the brother of all ups.

Seriously. Did you jumper (master/slave/cable select) the 20GB drive correctly?

Yup, I double checked, and I verified by checking the bios. It's detecting the drive correctly.

I'm going to low level format the drive and see if that helps.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

TDC, weird man, I haven't had any more incite since we talked in chat....

You are using the dell board and dell power supply right? I can’t imagine that being it but if your using the dell board and a normal power supply it could be an issue… but it would be weird to see it appear like this.

 

[OnCider]

Booting from a Windows XP cd OR a Windows 98SE cd, I get an error message that reads:

"Invalid boot disk.
Please insert a new boot disk into a:"

Don't take this the wrong way, but is your Windows XP CD an original? CDs need to be specifically formatted as bootable. If you were installing from a *cough* "backup" CD, you might not have written the CD correctly.

Not that I have had any prior experience in this area.

Honest.