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Installing Win98 on formatted drive
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Name: Teemo
Date: November 10, 2003 at 16:21:28 Pacific
Subject: Installing Win98 on formatted drive OS: Win98 CPU/Ram: Pentium 111/128
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Comment: After discovering errors on my computer I deicded that it is better to format drive C and install win98. First I made a startup disk, formatted partition C, loaded system files by using SYS C command and when I tried to install windows through my CDRom, I got the message that "largest executable programme size is 442000 bytes". I tried to use memmaker but could not find it. What should i do?
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Response Number 1
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Name: Don Miller
Date: November 10, 2003 at 16:29:12 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Did you boot from a diskette (with CD-ROM support)? If so, then you can try the following: Copy the CD-ROM Installation contents to the C:\ drive: Assume your CD is E:\ E: press <Enter> XCOPY \WIN98 C:\WIN98 /S ..press <Enter> Exit and reboot to C: delete any AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files on C:\ Type CD \Win98 and press <Enter> Type Setup Make sure any BIOS virus protection is turned off before you do this. You should be good to go Don
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Response Number 3
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Name: MaadhuriMN
Date: November 10, 2003 at 16:39:46 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If you have formatted the the HDD and transferred the system files to the formatted C:Drive to make it bootable and then, after removing the Win98 Startup disk and changing the First Boot Device to CD-ROM drive in the BIOS setup, and restarted the PC with Full version of Win98 CD in CD-ROM drive for it to start the Setup, or if the Win98Boot Disk is properly made to access the CD-ROM drive, then accessing the CD-ROM drive by typing its Drive latter designated by the Boot Disk [one letter beyond the usual letter in Windows. D:->E: ]and then typing Setup & ENTER you must be able to start the Windows98 Reinstall on a properly formatted helthy HDD using a Good Full version Win98 CD and the correct Product Key. If you can expand what you actually did when you " tried to install windows through my CDRom", we might be able to say what the problem could have been.
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