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Reinstallation-Win98se takes 2hrs??
Name: thameemahmed Date: November 11, 2008 at 21:12:50 Pacific OS: Win98SE CPU/Ram: P II x86 Product: LG
Comment:
I was accounting a problem, The system gets freezed and i can't operate anything in My win 98se, So I formatted My system drives and tried to reinstall the OS..But The win 98SE reinstallation normally takes 30min..But after this problem it takes me almost 2 hrs..What would be the reason for this.????
Name: RTAdams89 Date: November 11, 2008 at 21:18:24 Pacific
Reply:
Could be a damaged hard drive or memory. Try using another computer with a CD burner to make a a memtest86 boot CD (http://www.memtest86.com/download.html). Boot from that and test the memory. If there are no errors, go to the website for your hard drive manufacture and download any diagnostic tools they provide. These will check your hard drive for problems. Finally, boot from a DOS floppy and use fdisk to completely wipe the drive. Don't bother making a new partition, just delete everything that is already on the drive. Then boot from the Win98 CD and try installing again.
Name: pyrolitic Date: November 12, 2008 at 16:20:17 Pacific
Reply:
Also, check the IDE drive cables. Sometimes a bad connection in the ribbon cables connecting the hard drives can cause problems similar to what you describe.
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Response Number 3
Name: thameemahmed Date: November 12, 2008 at 19:28:48 Pacific
Reply:
Thank You all for your suggestion guys now the system is cool...
Thameem ahmed
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Response Number 4
Name: Bug_zs Date: November 14, 2008 at 10:49:15 Pacific
Reply:
Thameem,
If you want to cut that 30 minutes to about 3-4 minutes, check these links out:
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