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| 78391 | 2002-09-11 02:59:00 | Assuming I have backed up, then formatted the HD and I have the OS (Win98se) on CD, is rebooting from a floppy just a case of "following your nose" Or is there somewhere I can obtain a step by step instruction for this procedure |
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| 78392 | 2002-09-11 03:06:00 | To some degree, it depends on your CD drive - some older drives require their own driver to be incorporated on the boot disk. Does your bios allow you to boot from CD? This is much easier than fiddling with boot disks. You can try it before you format your hard disk - you get the opportunity to abort the installation (from CD), so testing if it works is non-destructive! | wuppo (41) | ||
| 78393 | 2002-09-11 03:44:00 | Hi yes it is pretty straight forward. Enter the floopy disk and bootup your machine. A menu will appear - select the "with CDROM" option. You will need to change directory using the DOS commands to select the CD then to run setup.exe. Note that your boot disk creates a virtual drive lettered just after your last HD letter. So if your CDROM was previously D:, under the DOS environmen using the boot disk the CDROM is now E: Type the folloowing presuming your CDROM is E: and setup is on the root folder of the CD (ie not under a sub-folder) e: setup The setup on the CD will then run and give instructions as needed. It always pays to check a startup disk works correctly. You sometimes have problems with the CD driver on the boot disk not recognising the CDROM leaving you stranded. From Win98+ a generic driver is used which should work - but it pays to check :-) |
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