Installing 98

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#1 GRS

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Posted 22 September 2006 - 11:01 PM

Hi, New one for me, Trying to install 98, formatted and ran setuo, on first boot I got this,Have no idea what to do. :oh_my_god:

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Posted 23 September 2006 - 01:30 AM

I picked this up from Microsoft and another site, should solve it.

Try fdisk /mbr then fdisk the drive. When you format the drive do not use the /s flag to transfer the system files. Win 98 will/should install them.

http://support.micro...com/kb/q187641/

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Posted 23 September 2006 - 12:27 PM

GRS, on Sep 22 2006, 07:01 PM, said:

Hi, New one for me, Trying to install 98, formatted and ran setuo, on first boot I got this,Have no idea what to do. :oh_my_god:

Gary, If you already formatted the drive, C: wouldn't be created yet.

You should have a 98 boot disk in the floppy drive and the win98 disk in the cd drive.... choose boot th the floppy drive A:.

At the A:/ prompt type "setup" no quotes. If that doesn't start the setup process type D: at the A:/ prompt, then type "setup" at the D:/ prompt.

BTW... In this case, the A: drive has to be first in the boot order in the bios.

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Posted 23 September 2006 - 03:01 PM

Smokey, on Sep 23 2006, 06:27 AM, said:

Gary, If you already formatted the drive, C: wouldn't be created yet.

You should have a 98 boot disk in the floppy drive and the win98 disk in the cd drive.... choose boot th the floppy drive A:.

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At the A:/ prompt type "setup" no quotes. If that doesn't start the setup process type D: at the A:/ prompt, then type "setup" at the D:/ prompt.

BTW... In this case, the A: drive has to be first in the boot order in the bios.

Oh, how quickly we lose track of things in the past. That screen appears to me as a Drive Overlay on the HDD that 'lies' to the computer about the true size of the HDD. It was quite frequently needed as HDDs got larger but the BIOS on the motherboard didn't keep up with the changes and the larger HDDs weren't recognized properly.

Using a Win98/98SE boot floppy and typing fdisk /mbr at the A: prompt should remove the overlay. Of course, the BIOS must be able to work with the full size of the HDD or the overlay will need to remain in place. I've found that, starting with Win95, it is much better not to use the overlay as it can cause problems.

Usually with an overlay the message about booting to the A: drive is necessary as booting directly to the A: drive may not allow the overlay to load and the HDD will not yet be usable.

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Posted 23 September 2006 - 07:55 PM

Thanks For your responses but computer is already striped for parts and in the recycle center, I was just playing with a very old computer in hopes of learning something, should have not bothered you guys by posting about this.I know you don't mind.

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