lesmond74

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.