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Step 2Creating a boot disk
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A FLOPPY DRIVE:
You can buy an external USB floppy drive for cheap. I picked up one at Wal-Mart for around $10. If you just do not want anything to do with a floppy drive, you can make a bootable USB drive with these instructions:
How to make a bootable USB flash drive
I had success with a Windows 98 SE OEM boot disk image. If you decide to use something else, please post your results in the comments for other readers.
1. Insert a blank floppy disk into the drive.
2. To create the boot disk, run the file that you downloaded from Bootdisk.com (my file was called "boot98se.exe")
3. Once that process is finished, you need to copy hddhackr.com to your floppy disk.
4. You also need to copy the hddss.bin file to the disk. This is the one that you found searching the net. Make sure it is for 120GB hard drives! There are 3 copies out there (20GB, 60GB, and 120GB).
You can buy an external USB floppy drive for cheap. I picked up one at Wal-Mart for around $10. If you just do not want anything to do with a floppy drive, you can make a bootable USB drive with these instructions:
How to make a bootable USB flash drive
I had success with a Windows 98 SE OEM boot disk image. If you decide to use something else, please post your results in the comments for other readers.
1. Insert a blank floppy disk into the drive.
2. To create the boot disk, run the file that you downloaded from Bootdisk.com (my file was called "boot98se.exe")
3. Once that process is finished, you need to copy hddhackr.com to your floppy disk.
4. You also need to copy the hddss.bin file to the disk. This is the one that you found searching the net. Make sure it is for 120GB hard drives! There are 3 copies out there (20GB, 60GB, and 120GB).
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Most computers have a key either F11 or F12 to enter the boot menu from which you can select the drive you want to boot from(much simpler than going into BIOS), just check on the start up screen to see which key takes you to the boot menu
The site is not very user friendly, and assumes you already understand a LOT that I doubt the average make user does. And, I personally didn't really want to shell out an extra $10 for a usb drive when I'm trying to do a money-saving mod.
You boot from a usb drive changing your computers boot setting in the BIOS menu. When you start up your computer, it should say something along the lines of "F2 to enter startup" (actual key may vary). You press that key, and it will bring you to the BIOS setting screen, which has a key to instruct you on how to cycle through menus and change values.
Cycle through the menus until you find the option to change the order your computer checks the drives to boot from, it is probably currently set to check the optical drive, then hard disk. Instruct it to check the usb ports before the hard drive, and if you've properly configured the usb drive, it will boot from that.
And if you don't want to buy a flash drive, you could just borrow one from somebody.