I have an old IBM Thinkpad 240 laptop with a Celeron 300Mhz CPU, 64Mb of RAM, and a 6Gb hard drive. Since it has no CD drive, I'm using a USB CD drive which is set as Drive E: I'm trying to reinstall Win 98SE, and have done the following: Partitioned the hard drive to a single partition, and formatted. When I try to install Win98 I get the following message: Windows setup requires 'largest executable program size' to be at least 442368 bytes to run. How do I correct the problem in oder to instll Win 98SE?

After FDISKing and formatting the drive, copy the contents of the WIN98 folder to the flash drive. Then create a folder on the HDD and copy the contents there. Install by running "setup.exe"

I'll try that, thanks much.

Here's some info on that: http://support.microsoft.com/defaul... Are you booting from the USB cdrom or are you booting from a floppy bootdisk which is loading the appropriate cdrom drivers? I think windows setup is not seeing a formatted dos partition. Boot up from whatever media you're using to install 98 but run FDISK, option 4, instead. What does it say?

I found that link myself, and Im going to try copying the files to the hard drive, and install from there. Basically, that's what T-R-S is saying. I'll let you know how I make out.

Success! Since the standard WIN98 boot disk wouldn't pick up the USB CD drive, I had to use a modified boot disk. That's what caused the false hard drive size. After starting with the modified boot disk, I couldn't use a flah drive, as T-R-S suggested, because I only have one USB port. (It's being used by the CD drive) Instead, I created a directory on C: and copied the WIN98 folder from the Install CD to the new directory. I then rebooted with the standard WIN98 statup floppy, and installed WIN98 from the hard drive Eureka it worked! Thanks guys.

Hmm, forgot about the USB drivers being blown away with the format. At least you got it going (and BTW, it's T-R-A, not T-R-S {never had a TRS-80 in my life}---) ;)