Topic awaiting preservation: big HDD problem

i have been trying to get an old pc working for someone and was having trouble with the mouse (usb) installation, i ran the usb config program and after about a minute, the machine re-booted, then when searching for primary/secondary drives could not find any. NONE! according to the startup there is no HDD installed on the machine.

i ran fdisk from win98 boot disk and it could not open necause there was no drive to 'fdisk' on.

i have never seen this happen before. if anyone copuld explain it to me it would be great. if someone could tell me how/ if i can fix fix it, it would greatly be appreciated

this question is not related to the bios question, thanks

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i should have been more specific above, i installed win2K on the machine but no usb support. then after the crash i was using win98 boot disk to access fdisk, but that didnt work