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why wont win98 install... ?

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decibel08

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Jan 11, 2002
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so i formatted my hard drive and run windows setup from the cd. it runs the blue screen scan of the hard drive and seems fine. then it says 'copying files needed for setup' and then suddenly goes back to the dos prompt (with the cursor not blinking, if that makes any difference).

i have no idea why this is happening. im using a win98 boot disk, not the original startup disk that comes with windows, and maybe thats some problem. but it worked twice recently with this disk. can someone point me to a website that has the files for the initial win98 startup disk? any help is appreciated.
 
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