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This exercise was taking up more time than it was worth, so I decided to just install Win 98 from CD. When I did this, setup wanted to format the 30GB partition because it thought the existing file system was "incompatible with Windows 98" (even though I formatted the partition fat32). I let it reformat but after it finished it said there were errors and couldn't continue. To get around this I rebooted and chose option 2 "start computer with CD-ROM support" (as opposed to option 1, "start computer and run setup"). This boots to a command line which allowed me to run setup as follows: setup /id /im /nm /is . For those unaware what these do is: /id - bypass disk space check /im - cause setup to ignore the conventional memory check /nm - bypass CPU detection /is - cause setup not to run scandisk Win 98 is now installed and dual booting with Win 95 via Boot-US.

Hello, I have an old IBM PIII computer which I would like to run Win 9x games on. The system will dual boot Win 95 OSR 2 and Win 98SE. Win 95 is successfully installed but I am having trouble getting Win 98 to install how I would like. I put a reasonably modern hard drive in the system - a 160 GB Samsung. It is connected to a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 PCI controller card (using the last driver which supports drives > 137GB). I installed Win95 in a 7GB fat32 primary partition created and formatted using fdisk on a Win95 startup disk. Of course, fdisk did not see the full capacity of the drive (it thought it was 21553MB) but Win 95 installed and booted without any problems. I then created and formatted a 30GB fat32 primary partition for Win98 using Boot-US . This program will also be the boot manager (it works by hiding and deactivating primary partitions other than the one you are booting). When Win 98 is installed I will also use Boot-US to create and format 3 x 30GB fat32 logical partitions (the formatted capacity will be 127GB to avoid problems with disk limitations in Win 9x). To make the Win98 install easier I copied the "win98" folder from the Win 98 CD to the new partition. I would prefer to have this folder on the hard drive to save having to use the CD during the install. After hiding and deactivating the Win 95 partition with Boot-US, I booted the system using a Win 98 startup disk. The goal is to access the Win 98 folder in order to run setup. However, I am unable to do this. At the C:\ prompt I get a "File not found" (even though the correct capacity of the partition is reported now). The same happens if I try to copy the win98 folder from the CD to the hard drive while in the DOS environment. Is there a way I can run Win98 setup from the hard drive, as I would prefer? Or will I have to install from CD (assuming that will even work in the above setup)? Thanks in advance.

Tried it but no change. This appears to be a dead link. I haven't tried 1, 2 or 3 yet. Yes, the drive is partitioned as follows - C:\ - Win98 SE, FAT32, 25GB, Primary F:\ - Win XP, FAT32, 15GB, Primary Linux, Ext3, 10GB, Primary Extended partition containing the following logical volumes - Linux, Swap, 512MB Linux, Ext3, 35GB E:\ - FAT32, 25GB As mentioned above, there is a phantom 'D:\' showing up in Win98 As I have not finished installing everything on XP and have not yet put anything on the other partitions, I think what I will end up doing is image WinXP, wipe all the partitions except Win98, then redo them all as logical volumes. But if you have a patch which fixes this I will try it first. Thanks.

Hi, I have an old IBM P3 which I added an Initio SATA controller card to. The drive attached to the card was partitioned as follows (all primary partitions) - Win 98SE (C:\) Xubuntu Linux Linux Data Partition FAT32 Data Partition (originally D:\) There are no other drives in the system apart from a DVD-ROM drive. I wiped everything bar Win98 and installed WinXP in a new partition right after Win98. Everything worked fine. The plan is to triple boot with Lubuntu Linux. I used Gparted to create some more partitions before installing Linux. The drive is now partitioned like this, with drive letters for all FAT32 partitions as they now appear in Win 98 - Win 98SE (primary - C:\) Win XP (primary - F:\) Ext3 Linux (primary) Linux Swap (logical) Linux Data (logical) FAT32 Data (logical - E:\) I would have thought that Win XP would become D:\ and the other FAT32 partition would be E:\. I first noticed something odd when I booted in to Win 98 and Scandisk wanted to do a full scan on 'D:\'. It did this without any issues. But after logging in drive D:\ now shows up in My Computer as a 'phantom' drive letter. By this I mean - All other drives are labelled but this isn't Right-clicking 'Properties' shows it as 0 bytes capacity But right-clicking 'Format' shows it has the same capacity as the Win XP drive Double clicking on it brings up this error - 'D:\ is not accessible - A device attached to the system is not functioning' System Properties>Performance has this error message - 'Drive D is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system' When emptying the Recycle Bin I get a message asking if I want to format D:\ My goal is to have Win98 recognise each partition as it should, without me having to reformat anything. I have tried various methods of re-assigning drive letters but without success. I can make the icon disappear with TweakUI but that is not a solution. All other FAT32 partitions are readable/writable and there are no conflicts/problems in Device Manager. Does anyone have any solutions to this problem? Thanks in advance.