Windows 98

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Postby kthulhu » Sat Mar 27, 2004 8:46 pm

*Sigh*

All right, since the hard drive is already formatted, here's how this should go:

1. Download the Windows 98 boot disk from bootdisk.com (plenty of links up this thread). Make a boot floppy out of it. Why the Windows 98 boot disk? Because that ABSOLUTELY should have the DOS CD-ROM driver.

2. Boot up off the Win 98 boot floppy you just made. When it's finished loading drivers and all that, an "A:\>" prompt should be on your screen. Since the hard drive appears to be formatted now, change over to your CD-ROM drive. This should be "D:" or "E:", so type in drive letter: and press Enter.

3. Type SETUP, press enter, and follow the instructions.
I'm out...
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Postby BigDude » Sun Mar 28, 2004 3:48 pm

When I get to the part where I'm suppose to type 'SETUP' it gives me the good ol' "BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME" excuse... :|
Other times when it tries to load the driver for the D: drive at the vary beginning it says "No drivers found, installation failed"
So I'm really lost here... :?
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Postby kthulhu » Mon Mar 29, 2004 2:21 am

Hmm...it might be a system restore disc...

Have you tried booting up off the CD by setting the option for it in the BIOS?

As for not being able to install a CD-Rom driver, that's probably because MSCDEX (the program that handle's DOS based CD-ROM stuff) can't find the specific DOS driver for your CD-ROM.
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