I recently was given a 6gb hard drive that I wanted to use as a back up, while installing it into my system as a single drive to see what it had on it, I was given the prompt " no operating system found". So I poped in my win98 boot disk, and ran Fdisk on the single partition that it had. I then disconnected it, put on my other 4gb hard drive with the windows 98, and booted back up, I then got the following error on boot up " Disk drive eroror, please insert boot disk into drive a, press any key to enter". I put in the boot disk, then rebooted the system again with the disk out, and kept getting the same error message. It seemed to have been locked in some eternal loop, I eventually had to put in the 6 gb hard drive, boot from a boot cd, install 98 on that hard drive, then swap and install the 4gb and reboot before I could get the system to work again. Needless to say 3 hrs later, I got it all working. So...I have the following questions.

1. How do I get out of this loop in the future.

2. How do I format the 6gb hard drive to use as a piggy back on the 4gb hard drive without getting into another loop.

3. When I try to piggy back both drives together, the 6 does not register, but when I pop in a 2gb hard drive, it registers as a d drive.

thanks,
Jerry Adair