I formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows 98se. I then tried to install a wireless network adapter so i could connect to my wireless internet. It would not load and i noticed I needed to be running 2000 or XP. After I removed it windows 98 wouldn't load so I reformatted and started over. Now when I insert the boot disk and select 1. Start computer with cd rom support. I get the following:
This driver is provided by Oak Technology, Inc.. OTI-91X ATAPI-CDROM device driver, REV D91XV353
(C)Copyright Oak Technology Inc. 1987-1997
Device Name : MSCD001
Your program caused a divide overflow error.
If the problem persists, contact your program vendor.

and I can't go any farther.

Please help.
thanks

I'm sorry that you've had no reply yet. I suspect that this is because the cause of the problem that you've described initially sounds rather hard to work out. However, thinking laterally, you could probably boot from the CD instead if you have a full "retail" version of Windows 98SE. In fact, most OEM versions of Windows 98SE will probably allow booting from the CD as well. To do this, you may need to enter the BIOS (System Setup) screen to change the Boot Order or Boot Sequence so that your PC tries to boot from a CD before the hard drive.

I hope that helps.

Yes, apologies for missing this thread and making you wait.

Your boot disk may be corrupted (or the drive may be dirty/dusty). Have you tried another Win98SE Boot Disk*?

You should run a full SCANDISK in DOS before initializing Windows 98 Setup;

When the boot completes, at the C:\> prompt, type in* scandisk /all/autofix/nosave/nosummary and hit the Enter key. All of your drives (partitions) will be scanned and fixed if problems exist.



*The above bootdisk image file is a self extracting file and has to be executed (run) from a running Windows machine in order to create the actual startup diskette on one of your floppy disks. (This image file produces the same bootdisk which 98SE creates.) This downloaded image file will format the floppy disk to ensure its integrity, write the files to the disk, then verify the file write, so it'll take a minute or three to create the bootdisk.

Ensure the floppy drive is set as the first boot device in the bios.

NOTE: When you boot a machine with this boot floppy, it creates a RAMDRIVE in system memory to contain DOS system tools/drivers. Thus it will move your "normal" CDROM device/drive letter "up" one level. (If your CDROM is normally E: it will be F: when booting with this bootdisk.)

The path to the found CDROM will be set with the bootfiles, so entering A:\>f:\setup is the same as entering A:\>setup at the A:\> prompt. There is no need to include the cdrom drive letter. The CDROM device letter will be assigned near the end of the floppy boot process, right after MSCDEX is loaded.

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