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05-24-2003, 01:51 AM
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Win 98 se Install
Hope you can help!
I am about to replace a HD for a friend who wants Win 98 se installed. I have done this many times before from the CD ROM, but for a change, this time I want to copy the contents of the CD to the HD and run setup.exe from there. The only problem is, I'm not sure how to do the copy etc. Any tips would be great! 
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05-24-2003, 03:07 AM
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you can plug the HD, into your computer, clear it, and then copy from the 98 se cd to the HD of your friend's...
that would be one way to do it... |
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05-24-2003, 06:30 AM
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I dont think its quite as easy as that viperfx but I am not sure how it is done myself but I am sure someone on here will tell us.
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05-24-2003, 10:41 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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With the new hard drive installed, run fdisk and format off a Win98 boot/setup floppy first and then from the a: prompt switch to the c: drive and type "md win98" (without the quotes) and hit Enter. Then type "cd win98" (without the quotes) and hit Enter. Then put the Win98 CD in the CD-ROM drive and while you're still in the Win98 directory, type "copy x:\win98\*.*" (without the quote marks and the x: represents the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive). This will copy all the necessary files from the Win98 CD to the hard drive. When the files are all copied over, you should still be in the c:win98 directory...type "setup" and hit Enter and the Win98 installation process will begin.
Cricketedit: Forgot to mention the Win98 boot/setup floppy. Last edited by Cricket; 05-24-2003 at 01:07 PM. |
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05-24-2003, 10:51 AM
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welcome to pcmechanic...
I'm not sure you can copy your installation disc to your hard drive without an operating system already there. To run any commands would at least require Dos...never heard of it done this way. I have the windows folder of the disc copied so that I don't have to insert it when installing certain software programs...a lot of guys do this. What is the purpose of trying to install this way? maybe some one else knows..... |
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05-24-2003, 10:57 AM
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Dan,
Aslong as the hard drive is partitioned and formatted with a file system. You can use DOS to create directories(Like Cricket mentioned) all that the OS does is provide a GUI. |
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05-24-2003, 11:02 AM
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Thing is, Dan, if you are booted up from a floppy disk you already have DOS for an OS (temporary of course).
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05-24-2003, 11:07 AM
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thanks pillainp and Matt...couldn't logically figure this one out....makes sense with the startup disk in tho'...there's the OS.
Last edited by Dan; 05-24-2003 at 11:10 AM. |
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