old pc

[SKUNK1111]

my eldery nebiour has give me his very old pc to see if i can sort it out for him,it boots up with a big IBM across the the screen in the post boot set up ,its got a petium 120mhz processor and 10mb memory(i did say old)now ive put a 4gb hard drive in it for him but for some reason after ive formatted it i cant get windows 95 back on it.In the bios i select 1st booting device cdrom but no joy.I just keep getting a picture in black and white with what looks like f1 to f10 and 4 little arrows poniting to the f1 button .so basicly iam stumped any idears any body.

[bison1947]

Its possible that the motherboard is that old
that it wont reconize a hard drive over a certain size
If you have got a smaller drive try that

Bison....

[countzerouk]

You can find more info on HD size barriers at http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/bios/size.html

Did you let the pc auto-detect disk geometry or did you enter it yourself? Also check the master/slave jumper settings. Might be worth re-creating the master boot record by booting from floppy and running fdisk /mbr

[SKUNK1111]

the hard drive when i put it in this pc had windows 2000 on it and it did boot up to acertain point so i think the mother board does reconize the hard drive it seems asif it wont boot from the cd rom for some unknow reason.