Windows 98 install problems

[azay32]

Hi, I recently formatted my hard drive and tryed to install windows 98, but it got stuck on a screen that said "Disk Write Error, Unable to write to c" Now I deleted my old partitions which was "ntfs" and created a normal dos partition and then formatted my c drive and tryed to install 98. Towards the end of the install, it went to a screen saying please allow a few more minutes to configure some files and then came up with that error above. I've tryed everything i can think of disabling network adapters and formatting again. If anyone could help out it would be greatly appreciated. thanks

[EzyStvy]

How big is the drive and the C partition? If it's bigger then 32gigs, try makeing the C parition smaller.

[edfair]

what operating system did you use to create the DOS partition? If it was the underlying DOS from 98 you may have a partition that is too small.

[azay32]

Well, its like a 80 gig drive. I booted up from a win 98 boot-up disk and went into fdisk and deleted the old partition and created one primary dos partition. Should i make a extended as well? It was the old win 98 edfair

[glc]

Did you make the partition 100% of the drive? When the drive is over 64gb, 98's FDISK has a bug, you have to use percentages, not megabytes, when you are partitioning.

[azay32]

Thanks for everyones help. I finally got windows installed. I partitioned my drive into c and d and changed my boot configuration to boot from a cd, and finally was able to get windows xp installed. Only problem i'm having now is for some reason i cannot find out my sound card model to download the driver. I've tried dxdiag and i also went into device manager and looked in there and all i get is audio controller. Do you think i may have a damaged sound card since i cant find the model anywhere? It's a onboard soundcard.

[glc]

If you can tell us the computer brand and model, or if it's a custom, the motherboard brand and model, we can find the drivers for you. There are probably more drivers that you need for proper performance - such as chipset drivers.

[azay32]

Sorry I'm having trouble finding my motherboard info. I was able to get my bios number "bf86510a.86a" I dont know if that will help but if it does or doesnt thanks for trying!


I just found this if it helps Intel® Desktop Board D865GBF

[glc]

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Prod...?ProductID=948

[azay32]

Thank You! Everything is working and running properly. Thanks for taking your time and helping me.