Installing W98 on new disk

[btfsplk]

I'm trying to install w98 second ed on an old computer with a new hard disk. I have the W98 system disk and CD. Tne CD-ROM seems to work fine from the boot disk, but I can't run "setup". It tells me I have used an improper command or file name. I can run "Dir" on the CD, and it tells me that setup.exe is an executable file on the disk. Incidentally, the W98 CD starts by itself on my newer computer, so I think the CD is OK. Any ideas?

 

[ANFPS26]

Did you change to the "E" drive to run setup? At the C:\> prompt type E: then setup.

Jim

 

[lgebhart]

If that doesn't work:

After you get to the e drive (Or whatever your CD drive letter is) with the step above

e:\>(Type the following cd win98 (Press enter)
e:\win98>(Type the following setup (Press Enter)



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[btfsplk]

Yes, I was working from the "E" drive when I got the "bad command or file name". Running cd win98 gets me "Invalid directory", altough win98 is listed in "Dir" as a directory file.

 

[wolluf]

Does this machine have bios option to boot from CD? (once you've created partition, it should be able to install booting from CD).

Hardware may be bad in this machine - eg, perhaps the CD drive is not functioning properly (can you view its directory structure using dir?) - might be worth using another (for the setup at least).

 

[btfsplk]

Thanks, Wolluf. Yes, the computer will boot from the CD-ROM, but I don't think the W98 Installation disk is bootable. The boot process stops at "Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM:". I do have a bootable Windows ME recovery disk, and that boots up just fine (but I don't have enough disk space to install WME and everything else on that set of disks). Anyway, it does seem that the CD-ROM is working OK.

To your other question, Yes, I can view the directory structure using "DIR". I just can't execute a command or open one of the subdirectories.

 

[micker377]

I do have a bootable Windows ME"

Use a Win98SE floppy boot disk.

 

[micker377]

Is this a "Full" Win98SE CD, or an "update" Win98SE CD? An update needs to be installed by (and within) Windows 98.

 

[btfsplk]

This is full W98SE disk. I also have a bootable floppy, but that won't let me run setup or enter the directories on the CD. I can only read the directory list with "DIR".

 

[edfair]

Sounds like the CDROM drive is the problem, as discussed above, or possibly the CD itself. It is starting the boot but hanging. The failure to change to win98 directory is also an indication.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[btfsplk]

Thanks, edfair. You are probably right. I think it is the CD, though, as the CD-ROM works fine with other disks. I guess I'll try to shoehorn the WME image backup disks onto the hard disk. (This old machine only recognizes 8G of a 20G hard drive.)