At least you know it is working (of a fashion) when you put a known working HDD in and its booting.. .The first thing to do is boot from either the Win98 CD or from an emer startup disk and do a full reformat, deleting all the partitions currently on the HDD this will give you a starting point and then install win98 on the formatted drive, this should work.. .Another option would be to format the HDD and install win 98 on it on another PC, yes you will get a lot of errors , but these can be sorted out easily at first boot on your built PC. .Remember to make the drive bootable when you format it !!
[ 24 January 2002: Message edited by: SLF 999 ]</p>