Intallation help needed

Can someone help me please?

I have a computer at home that the hard drive died on last week
A new one has been installed but I cannot load an operating system on it.

I've tried using boot disks where it will go through a check and put some files on, fires up the CD and starts to install but then it just goes back to A:/ prompt.

What am I doing wrong?

Help!

Sherri

 

Did you run fdisk?

Did you format it?

 

Here is how to use fdisk and format to ready the HD for Win9x.
At A:\> type fdisk enter
press "Y" enter for large disk support << Y=FAT32, N=FAT16, choose N for 95, Y for 95b,98; if using 95 boot floppy you will not see this.
at FDISK Option select "1" enter
at Create DOS Partition or logical DOS Drive select "1" enter
Verifying drive integrity, **%
press "Y" enter at do you wish to use the maximum available size for Primary DOS Partition
and make the partition active (Y/N)..?
If you want to partition the disk set the size of your primary.
Verifying drive integrity, **%
you then get a message to RESTART your system for changes to take effect
To create a second partition, you must create a extended partition and then create the logical drive(s) or other partitions.
YOU MUST REBOOT and format AFTER FDISK.

Press Esc and then Ctrl,Alt,Del, with bootdisk/Startup disk still in the floppy drive
At windows Startup Menu select without CD-Rom support
at A:\> type format c: (this will only format the HDD)
or A:\> type format c: /s (this will format and make HDD bootable)
At WARNING, ALL DATA WILL BE LOST PRESS "Y "
Formatting and the size of your HDD (i.e. 19,09.84M for a 20Gig)
after format enter a name for the HDD or just press enter you can name it later
Press Ctrl,Alt,Del, to reboot with bootdisk/startdisk in floppy
Select with CD-Rom support
enter A:\>C:\
and C:\>dir to see HDD space (i.e. 19,083.48 MB free for 20Gig)
Install Windows.

 

Try this Site

Try HERE it gives plenty of info on Re-Installing Win 95