Probs initializing disk..Win 98

[metro1]

I'm putting a 30 gig hard drive into a pentium 1 computer. It was taken from a Macintosh. When I boot up from the Win98 boot floppy, I can run fdisk, When I reboot the machine to format, the boot disk stops at a black screen, with the floppy drive light illuminated. It won't go into a dos prompt. At this point, I am zeroing all the hard drive data and will attempt it again. Any ideas?

 

[wolluf]

Did you run fdisk /mbr to write a new Master Boot Record (I assume you removed any existing MAC partition before setting up new FAT32 one & set it active).

 

[metro1]

wolluf,

no luck on the issue described above. The disk worked fine in the macintosh and the low-level format went all the way through.

 

[metro1]

As a follow-up, I got it solved. My old pc won't recognize drives over 8 gigs. HP won't release a firmware upgrade to see larger drives. I got hold of EZ BIOS and it formatted the drive to see all 30 gigs. wolluf, thanks for your help.