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| Answer» <html><body><p>Okay here it is... My fiance and i got here old comp back from her <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/mothers-564751" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MOTHERS">MOTHERS</a> place and it was bogged down. It to like <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/5-237653" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 5">5</a> mins to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/open-245076" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OPEN">OPEN</a> my comp. I spent day making it run faster. I got about a 50%increase of speed. But other problems came up so we decieded to wipe everything and start over. <br/>So i fdisked and formated my 2 drives to look like this<br/><br/><br/><br/>1) C: Pri Dos | 4918 MB | Fat32 | 100%<br/> <br/>2) D: Pri Dos | 4863 MB | Fat32 | 50%<br/> E: Ext Dos | 4897 MB | Fat32 | 50%<br/><br/>Did i do this right, i want windows to be on C: .<br/> So then im in dos with cdrom support and i get into F:\ drive.(Cdrom) Then as follows<br/>F:\>setup ---i hit enter---<br/>---Blank line left--- Hangs for a second<br/>F:\> ---then returns me here again.<br/><br/>I am stumped with this way.<br/>So another rout i took was entering 1 on the Start up menu(used boot disk) "Start windows 98 Setup from CD-ROM"<br/>It then loads all of the drivers. Then i get the message:<br/>"The Windows 98 Setup files were not found"<br/><br/>This is a brand new cd. and when i plug it into my XP comp, i can see the setup files; whats going on? Is there anotherway around thes problems?<br/>Thanks for reading and helping me.<br/>Mat<br/><br/>One more problem, when i boot my comp up, my memory test keeps on looping how do i fix this.<br/><br/>Specs. its all old but good stuff at one point!! <br/>ASUS P2L97 mother board<br/>ASUS AGP-V3000 video<br/>768 MB of SDRAM<br/>Fujitsu and Caviar35100 harddrives<br/>BIOS 1.51<br/>If any other info is need just ask.Can anyone help out here??? It's been awhile since I setup a Win 98 system, but if it's having trouble finding the files on the cd try running setup from the f:\win98 instead of from the root directory.<br/><br/>Good Luck, keep us posted<br/>i tried that already as well i just forgot to post it in the original message. but thanks for trying to help. if anyone else knows, plzzzzzzzz let me know.It's been a long time, but Win98 as I remember has to be installed on the first partition of the first drive. (your C: drive in this case). Has the partition been marked as active and why do you have two primary partitions? Unless your're <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/planning-15176" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PLANNING">PLANNING</a> on a dual boot system, I would suggest you allocate the second drive as extended and then build logical partiitions.<br/><br/>Good luck. It appears your computer can see your CD drive as F: but your CD doesn't appear to be reading CD's<br/><br/>Try typing F:\ Dir<br/><br/>This will list the directory of files on the CD if it is reading properly - if not it will return with a cannot read directory message<br/><br/>first the second was to be used to install win xp, then i did some research on it and it won't be compatable. Like you said about the partitions, i did exactly that last night. Thanks for the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/advice-768624" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ADVICE">ADVICE</a> anyway. <br/><br/>When i type F:>dir i get to see all files and i can open some of them like normal. yet whe i typ setup, nothing.... but thank you for trying, any other idea I WILL try. any thing.Hi try to use another CD ROM or CD Driveproblem solved... i got another cd drive from a friend for dirt cheap and all is fine now, i guess my old one was sH.. thank you all for your help. oh ya i also contacted microsoft about this issue, and they also recomended to replace my cd drive... for others information. once again thank you all for trying to help me.</p></body></html> | |