I'm going to email you a bootdisk file. Use that instead of booting from the cdrom.

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OK, you've got that stupid gmail that blocks just about everything. If you want the file you need to make the appropriate changes in your email settings. Remember a couple decades ago when Coke came out with 'new Coke'? All their eclectic surveys made them think it was the greatest thing since the pill. Well of course nobody liked the stuff and in a short time it was gone forever. It was so bad that when Coke restored the original formula they called it 'classic coke' in order to distance themselves from the debacle. Well that's gmail. You had to get an 'invitation' to it. And people handing those out acted like they were 50-yard line tickets at the super bowl. It was just a load of hype.

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Heh Ah, yes - I've got nearly 3Gb of storage available in my (largely unused) gmail account - oh boy Never tried, but I wonder if you archived the file with something other than ZIP (RAR or ACE for example) you might be able to slip an executable past the pesky gmail 'security' We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

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My guess is that you only fdisk'd the 8mb DOS partition. Use DelPart to remove the NTFS partition and then format the whole thing. Then you should have enough memory to load Win98SE. Bryan

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Not obvious what partitions have to do with memory, but I'll stay tuned. On the debacle front, [vaporware dept] Mr. Bill visited Japan and said that the Japanese version of vista would be released at the same time as the American ver. LOL ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2Go

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Hmmm - can't hardly wait for that - or at least, the shiny new Computing.Net Vista forum fwiw, "program too big to fit in memory" typically indicates a corrupt executable - but it may mean it's not being read correctly due to CD or memory errors We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

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"fwiw, "program too big to fit in memory" typically indicates a corrupt executable - but it may mean it's not being read correctly due to CD or memory errors" That's why I said what I did in #1. pat2k5, Just for drill, boot on floppy and: mem ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2Go

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Sure - that was just offered as a bit of expansion & reinforcement We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

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Converting a partition from FAT32 to NTFS can be done by an inbuilt utility in the Windows XP operating system — but it is important to realise that it is a one-way process. You cannot convert back, except possibly by use of Partition Magic 7.01, and that is not always successful. Windows XP has no tool for converting from NTFS to FAT32. http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php is where I found this info. Hope someone has found a work around for this situation for you. Rex

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Well, "BB", they're not trying to run XP - rather, they are installing Win98 - hard to see the relevance Thanks for staying focussed We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

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Pat2k5, are you sure that Windows XP isn't still on your system. It's just the computer might think that you want both Windows 98 and XP and it can't fit both in. I presume that you only want Windows 98 on your system and not XP as well. Well, When you formatted the drive, did any errors occur? If they did, the Windows XP may not have been completely removed. From, Vi.

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