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| 240777 | 2004-06-01 04:12:00 | I have Pentium 2 with 48Mb Ram. I reformatted HD and tried to install clean Win98 from CD. Started PC, inserted CD and got a prompt C:\>. In previous attempts after inserting CD installation started, but now it waiting for Command. Any ideas? Thanks for help. | Taly (4598) | ||
| 240778 | 2004-06-01 04:15:00 | What happens if you type in: d: <enter> ? Can it see the CD? From there you could find the setup.exe program and get it started. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 240779 | 2004-06-01 04:35:00 | Im assuming you've booted from a Boot Floppy. If not, you need to so you'll have CD-Rom support. From there, your CD-Rom drive will become E: (Most likely) because a temporary RamDrive will be D: Try booting from a Boot Floppy and typing: E: dir See if theres anything there. Then, click on FAQ's here at PressF1 and follow the brilliant FAQ that Heather P wrote! Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 240780 | 2004-06-01 07:03:00 | When I typed D: and pressed Enter I got D:\>. But I also tried to boot from CD-rom selecting boot sequence through BIOS, the result was: "Start up from CD-ROM..... failed" By the way, usualy if there is CDROM in, the CD drive lamp blinks. It don't now. Can it be that CD drive failed? |
Taly (4598) | ||
| 240781 | 2004-06-01 07:28:00 | If you enter DIR at the D:> , can you see a win98 <dir> ? Or you can get a win98 bootdisk from here (www.bootdisk.com) (the OEM version). Once the file is downloaded, put a floppy in your A drive and double-click the downloaded file. It will make a bootdisk for you. Next, change your BIOS to start from A drive , put your bootdisk in the drive and start your computer. You will be faced with a menu, choose the one with CD support. Note when it is finishing, what letter it say's it gave to the CDROM drive. Then just enter.. (substitute E with whatever the letter was that was allocated to CDROM if different) E: cd win98 setup |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 240782 | 2004-06-01 23:55:00 | OR..... :) Do as Pheonix says, download a win98 bootdisk with CDROM support and make sure it has FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.COM on it. Use this to start again to wipe the slate clean with a new primary active dos partition and format it. Make a directory win98 on the C: drive, copy the contents of the win98 directory on the CD to the win98 directory on C: Change the prompt to c:\win98 and type setup. Win98 will then install from the hard drive, much better than doing it from the CD. This assumes your CD drive is actually working Ok. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 240783 | 2004-06-03 04:13:00 | Thanks to everybody. It is all right now Regards Taly |
Taly (4598) | ||
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