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Originally Posted by Dan Penny

OK, I'll be watching for your further update.

I have just got thru trying to install 98SE on here again and i have been trying since 8 this morning and no such luck. I used FDISK everytime, reset my motherboard jumper to it's defauly settings as it came new and everything there is to install it and i have used 4 different cd's of 98se and i just gave up. As of now i don't know who to contact the maker of my HD or motherboard and also everytime i have tried to download a 98 boot disk and trying to install it on a floppy it say's the file is corrupt so it's not my floppys nor my floppy drive. I'm using a fat32 as always since i have had this computer and i never had any trouble installing 98 on here at all untill i installed xp. If anyone reads this thjat could really tell me how to get 98 installed i would really love to know. I'm not saying the replys i have gotten about this was wrong but nothing worked and also i forgot to say i did check my bios settings and they are all ok and set right. Thanks for your help but i do want my 98 back just like the song say's, i want my MTV.

"I used FDISK everytime"

How are you running fdisk if the boot floppies aren't working? Is your 98SE CD bootable?

"everytime i have tried to download a 98 boot disk and trying to install it on a floppy it say's the file is corrupt"

Can you provide the links to the 98SE boot floppies you have tried? What sites?

How are you creating the boot floppies?

Does the machine you're making the boot floppies on run other floppy drive elements, such as FORMAT, Scandisk (on floppies), etc?

I'll attach a file which should walk you through the install step by step. Pay particular attention to the fdisk content. (If a hard disk isn't properly set up ready to receive data (partitioned, then formatted), you won't get any further.)

Read it and post back if you are doing anything different than what is outlined.

Something isn't right somewhere, and with the information you've provided thus far, and what I've answered with, I'd really like to know what is wrong here.

Originally Posted by Dan Penny

"I used FDISK everytime"

How are you running fdisk if the boot floppies aren't working? Is your 98SE CD bootable?

"everytime i have tried to download a 98 boot disk and trying to install it on a floppy it say's the file is corrupt"

Can you provide the links to the 98SE boot floppies you have tried? What sites?

How are you creating the boot floppies?

Does the machine you're making the boot floppies on run other floppy drive elements, such as FORMAT, Scandisk (on floppies), etc?

I'll attach a file which should walk you through the install step by step. Pay particular attention to the fdisk content. (If a hard disk isn't properly set up ready to receive data (partitioned, then formatted), you won't get any further.)

Read it and post back if you are doing anything different than what is outlined.

Something isn't right somewhere, and with the information you've provided thus far, and what I've answered with, I'd really like to know what is wrong here.

I have a good clean floppy but i though it could be the floppy not installing all the drivers but i do try and make other floppys when i can to have in case this one goes bad. I run Fidsk from the floppy and have ran it from my c drive but none would make 98se install and as for the scandisk i can run it from my floppy but i was told it could be my floppy but i ran a scandisk on it and no bad sectors so it's good. I have read your TXT you sent me and i have an oem verson of 98se with a key. I have went by the txt and books on installing and yesterday i formated my HD and ran scandisk and good, i ran fisk and deleted my parition and then created one and i had to format before it would install anything but back to installing yesterday it went thru every part till it got to here in windows 98se. Copying windows 98 files to your computer, at that point it stopped at 5% and i formated again and done a clean install and it stopped at 6% and when it use to go once to 57%. I know it's not my cd's cause my sone uses my 98se cd to install windows cause that is my computer he has so we can contact one another and he has no problem installing and i never did untill this year so somethis is wrong some place.

Hi,

Did you go in the BIOS and reset all to default? If this did not work then try removing the BIOS battery, leaving it out for an hour and replacing it. Your BIOS should completely reset but just go in and make sure all your settings are found again and try again. I know this sounds quite a weird thing to do but I assure you that it should work especially after you saying that it only installs to 5% which is where my install kept failing.

Please post results.

Originally Posted by Geo2411

Hi,

Did you go in the BIOS and reset all to default? If this did not work then try removing the BIOS battery, leaving it out for an hour and replacing it. Your BIOS should completely reset but just go in and make sure all your settings are found again and try again. I know this sounds quite a weird thing to do but I assure you that it should work especially after you saying that it only installs to 5% which is where my install kept failing.

Please post results.

[QUOTE]I have a jumper on my motherboard that sets it back just like it came new and i have done that a lot also. The battery is in a spot as to where it will take me a long time to take it out and get back in and i have contacted soyo about this and all they could tell me it's new on them and to jump j5 the jumper i was talking about and they said that's all they could tell me to do and they won't help anymore. This has me stund also cause i had xp in here before last year i think i said before and i deleted it and 98se went back in here with no problem at all untill this year. If you have any other answers that you know would really work cause i am tired of formating and trying to reinstalling.

i ran a scandisk on it and no bad sectors so it's good

Only if you selected Thorough, Standard will not verify for bad sectors, unless they are in the directory or fat.

It might be time to copy the files to the hdd with dos and install from the hdd.
from the A: prompt MD C:\CABS enter {make folder named cabs on C:}
COPY X:\WIN98\*.* C:\CABS enter {X: the cd drive letter likely E:} {copy setup files to the hdd }
C: enter {You should now be at prompt C:\}
CD CABS enter {change folder to CABS}
setup
If you get an error while copying files- your cd or cd drive is bad or dirty, may be cd drive IDE cable is loose on drive or mother board.

If any errors, post when and exactly what is displayed.

When you ran FDISK you did set the partition ACTIVE ?

Originally Posted by Top

Only if you selected Thorough, Standard will not verify for bad sectors, unless they are in the directory or fat.

It might be time to copy the files to the hdd with dos and install from the hdd.
from the A: prompt MD C:\CABS enter {make folder named cabs on C:}
COPY X:\WIN98\*.* C:\CABS enter {X: the cd drive letter likely E:} {copy setup files to the hdd }
C: enter {You should now be at prompt C:\}
CD CABS enter {change folder to CABS}
setup
If you get an error while copying files- your cd or cd drive is bad or dirty, may be cd drive IDE cable is loose on drive or mother board.

If any errors, post when and exactly what is displayed.

When you ran FDISK you did set the partition ACTIVE ?

[QUOTE]Yes i set it to active and i will try copping th ecab files to my HD as soon as i can after i see part of the bonnarool music in this county on the internet cause there are a few groups on tonight and tomorrow also i want to see so i will save these emails to yahoo when i format my HD and get back with you asap. The motherboard is only about 6 months old, the one i have in here now and my other one is a year old and same type so what happens, happens.

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Yes i set it to active and i will try copping th ecab files to my HD as soon as i can after i see part of the bonnarool music in this county on the internet cause there are a few groups on tonight and tomorrow also i want to see so i will save these emails to yahoo when i format my HD and get back with you asap. The motherboard is only about 6 months old, the one i have in here now and my other one is a year old and same type so what happens, happens.

[QUOTE]I copyed the cab files from the windows 98se disk to my HD and copyed them to a cd and i formated my HD and done everything else. After i was ready to install the cabs i copyed them to my HD as you said and ran them after i unzipped them. It could not find the setup at all when i tryed it that way but there was a setup95 on there so i tryed that and it said it could not run from dos, i had the cabs copyed to the disk so i inserted the disk and tryed to run it and the same thing happen. I replaced my cables in which they didn't need replaced and i gave up again after that didn't work i tryed the other three windows 98se cd's and i had it set to boot from the cd-rom drive at first but no luck and then i tryed to install it thru dos as i have always done in the past but then i just got to 5% of the files copyed. I just do not know what to do next on this cause i have worked on 98se for many years now and i can build a compute from the ground up but this sure has me on edge.

I copyed the cab files from the windows 98se disk to my HD and copyed them to a cd and i formated my HD and done everything else. After i was ready to install the cabs i copyed them to my HD as you said and ran them after i unzipped them.

At no time did I say to copy the file to a cd nor did I say copy only the cab files from the Win98 cd. Also one does not unzip the cab file, setup must do it. The dos commands were to be used on the bad computer after booting with a boot cd or floppy. If we are to help, you must not read into the directions we give or modify them to your liking. If you do not understand them , just say so.

If I recall correctly you said something about bad ram ? Run a memory test program. DOCMEMORY http://www.majorgeeks.com/download315.html

It may also be a good idea to go to hdd manufacture web site and use their hdd test program.

Originally Posted by Top

At no time did I say to copy the file to a cd nor did I say copy only the cab files from the Win98 cd. Also one does not unzip the cab file, setup must do it. The dos commands were to be used on the bad computer after booting with a boot cd or floppy. If we are to help, you must not read into the directions we give or modify them to your liking. If you do not understand them , just say so.

If I recall correctly you said something about bad ram ? Run a memory test program. DOCMEMORY http://www.majorgeeks.com/download315.html

It may also be a good idea to go to hdd manufacture web site and use their hdd test program.

Maybe this is the wrong site i wrote this too. I had posted this on two different places to try and get help i know. No i don't have a memory problem at all or ram. I was told to copy my can files to my HD so i did that and i make a copy of them on one cd and on the other one i unzipped them. There was no way after formatting my HD that i could place the cabs on my HD and get them to open up at all cause i tryed that also. No maybe i do not understand all this after all these years but i found another website that said copy the cap's to the HD and and run them from there and that way if i open them then i would have 98se and xp together unless i copyed them to a cd. If i'm wrong then i am cause age does get to a person over time as it does to everyone but here with all the family problems i have you or anyone could messup bad.