need help!!!

[edrug]

hey there i need some help trying to fix
my hard drive i know some of u know the same
about vcds as youll do about formating a hard drive

(the old pc dose not have any cd-rom)
(new pc haves cd-roms)
my old pc stoped working cuz the hard drive got f$$k up
and i tryed to format it in the old pc no luck.
so thin i started to think how can i format the old hd.
And bingo it came to me. Why i dont just plug in the old
hd in to my new pc and format it from there so i did it was
all going good the win98 startup disk was working and it formated.
And i started on the setup and Boom there it was i know that it was to
easy. It told me i cant install windows 98 cuz am runing a newer os windows me

so can any of u tell me what i can do to install windows 98 back in
to my old hard drive

p.s. is there a program out there that can lit me add a os like windows 98 in to a 2ed hard drive to that i can put it back in to my old pc

[Prospero424]

Well, this is just a bit off topic, but I need to know where The Win98 setup is detecting the WIndows ME installation. Was this the OS previously installed on the same disk you are trying to install Win98 on or is WinME installed on the disc of your new computer?

If WinME is located on one of the disks attached to your new computer, simply disconnect the drive with ME on it before attempting to install 98 on the other disk.

If ME was on the disc you are now trying to get Win98 on, then I need to know exactly what you did when you formated. Did you also use Fdisk to repartition the drive or did you just format the drive without repartitioning? If you did not repartition the disk, I would go ahead and use fdisk (located on any win98 or me startup floppy) to wipe out any partitions on the disk then, create a new partition (after resetting the computer of course)) before doing the final formatting.

If for some odd reason the Win98 setup program STILL thinks ME is on the drive, then I would go to the manufacturer of your drive's site and download whatever repair or setup utilities they have. One of these will usually let you simply write zeroes over the entire drive, completely erasing ANY data on the drive. That will get rid of any lingering remnants of ME for sure.

Hope this helps,

Prospero