First post, by EdmondDantes
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All righty guys, here's the lowdown.
I ordered this motherboard, this power supply and this case. My video card is a Voodoo 3 2000 (PCI slot) and my sound card is a Soundblaster 16 (ISA slot).
Pretty much from the moment I got all the parts and built this beast, I had problems, as documented elsewhere, but I managed to solve all of them. However, now I'm having a problem that truly baffles me and I can't find the answer.
AND YES, I TRIED GOOGLE. The results I got were not applicable to my situation, because they all assume the HDD is bad and I know its not.
So here's the situation:
I decided to do a fresh install of Windows 98SE on it, and it seemed to all be going fine... but then, at the last leg (the second time it reboots the comp, IE the part where you get to actually use Windows 98)... the moment the OS loads up it gives me a Blue Screen saying "Unable to write to Drive C: Files or Folders may be lost."
... Wut.
I was literally copying files on and off my hard drive earlier, on this buiild, using a boot floppy. I was exploring it and copying things off CD-ROMs unperturbed. In fact the fact that it even got this far should say that yes, it can indeed write to the hard disk. So why is it now saying it can't?
... There is something that may be related.
I had to plug my hard drive into the "Secondary" IDE channel on the motherboard. For some reason, when its plugged into the Primary, it fails. I have my CD-ROM drive plugged into that now, and it apparently works just fine. So yes, my CD-ROM is my Primary IDE and my Hard Disk is my Secondary IDE. Could that be the problem?
Thanks in advance.