pitbull481 Posted July 11, 2005 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 yep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 when you booted up did you choose support for CD rom this time ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted July 11, 2005 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 Reboot and choose #1 for support for CD rom and try again. If you only have the one H.D. and only 1 partition on that H.D. then the Cd rom should be on E: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted July 11, 2005 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 i clicked 1 now its on this: Windows 98 has detected that drive c does not cotain a valid FAT or FAT32 partition . There are several possible causes. 1. This drive may need to be partitioned on the drive, run FDISK from MS-DOS command prompt. 2. You may be using third-party disk-partitioning software, If you are using this type of software, remove the Emergancy BOOT Disk and restart your computer from a floppy disk. 3. Some viruses also cause your drive c to not register. You can use a virus scanning program to check your computer for viruses. what do i do? this part is done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 sounds like the partition didn't take for some reason. Were you able to delete the partition earlier ? And after restart did you go to fdisk again and setup a new partition ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted July 11, 2005 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 sounds like the partition didn't take for some reason. Were you able to delete the partition earlier ? And after restart did you go to fdisk again and setup a new partition ? this part is done now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 when you ran format C: /s did that work OK ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted July 11, 2005 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 when you ran format C: /s did that work OK ? at 1st it didnt. now it did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 OK now try from this point. at the C: prompt type" md win98 "and hit enter. Then at the C: prompt type CD E: that will bring up the cd rom, now at the E: prompt type CD win98 that will bring up the win98 folder then type" copy *.* C:win98 " and hit enter, when it's done you can take the cd out of the drive and the floppy out and restart the PC. This time it will boot to the C: prompt without the boot disk. Just type CD win98 and then type" setup /ie /iv " and hit enter. That should get it going, I know this seems quite complicated and a hassle but it's not that bad, and it will be better than just using the CD rom to load the OS, Any questions just ask.hope it goes OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted July 11, 2005 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 OK now try from this point. at the C: prompt type" md win98 "and hit enter. Then at the C: prompt type CD E: that will bring up the cd rom, now at the E: prompt type CD win98 that will bring up the win98 folder then type" copy *.* C:win98 " and hit enter, when it's done you can take the cd out of the drive and the floppy out and restart the PC. When I type "CD E:" at C: prompt, it just does the same thing goes to C:> looks like this: C:>CD E: E:> C:> (skip the E:> ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 Hit Ctrl/alt/del at the same time and that should restart your PC and boot up and make sure you choose 1 for support cd rom and try again.at the C: prompt try to just type E: then enter then type cd win98 and go from there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 I don't know if you need to use this but here is a link to a Sys C: command http://www.computerhope.com/syshlp.htm#01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 at the C: prompt try to just type E: then enter then type cd win98 and go from there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 prompt type CD win98 that will bring up the win98 folder then type" copy *.* C:win98 " and hit enter, when it's done you can take the cd out of the drive and the floppy out and restart the PC. This time it will boot to the C: prompt without the boot disk. Just type CD win98 and then type" setup /ie /iv " and hit enter. That should get it going, I know this seems quite complicated and a hassle but it's not that bad, and it will be better than just using the CD rom to load the OS, Any questions just ask.hope it goes OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted July 11, 2005 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 at the C: prompt try to just type E: then enter then type cd win98 and go from there I did this now it went to" E:" typed in "cd win98" it said invalid directory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 at the E: prompt type" dir "and see if it has a win98 folder listed there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted July 11, 2005 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 at the E: prompt type" dir "and see if it has a win98 folder listed there i did this and alot of stuff came out WIN98_56 CAB etc etc etc 86 files 111,731,245 bytes 0 dir 0 bytes free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 did you burn that copy from an image ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted July 11, 2005 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 did you burn that copy from an image ? download from limewire in compressed 120 MB i probably didnt do something right from this part Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 ok......At the E: prompt try copy *.* C:win98 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 this is kind of scary because there should be 101 files but we'll see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted July 11, 2005 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 ok......At the E: prompt try copy *.* C:win98 didnt do anything it said "Bad command or file name" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2005 CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 I may be wrong here , but it sounds like you don't have a complete win98 cd or it has to be setup before burning like a .rar file or something like that. If you want I could send you a copy over AIM I would just send the cab files zipped into a win98 folder and it would probably be about 120 MB Let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted July 11, 2005 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2005 I may be wrong here , but it sounds like you don't have a complete win98 cd or it has to be setup before burning like a .rar file or something like that. If you want I could send you a copy over AIM I would just send the cab files zipped into a win98 folder and it would probably be about 120 MB Let me know. yes please thanx for helping out screen name is pitbulls425 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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