WarPiper wrote:
what is the best way of going about installing w2k on a firewire drive with a system running windblows 98se. 
Does Win98 see the drive after the driver is installed?  
Can you format the beast as FAT32? 
 Another possibilty is your BIOS can't support such a large disk.  My PC is only a year or so old and it doesn't support anything larger than 132GB.   Also, I don't think that drive will be bootable without fireware drive support in BIOS.  What is your motherboard make and model?