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#1 prophet

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Posted 19 April 2004 - 02:50 AM

im having a problem installing SE on my other computer its not a simple problem is there anyone who is really good at working in DOS and knows alot about computer that can give me their AIM so i ask them something?

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#2 simplistik

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Posted 19 April 2004 - 04:31 AM

With Windows 95/98 when you reformat you need to do this. Get a boot disk... boot into DOS.

Type fdisk and press Enter. You should get a screen that says something about your disk size... I think greather than 512... you want to select Y and support large disk. You'll want to make a FAT32 disk.... ok... you'll want to clean your partitions now. Press... 5 (I think) you'll get some selections... all this is gonna do is show you what kind of partition you have. More than likely it's a Primary DOS partition. You're gonna wanna back out one menu... and delete whatever kind of partion it said you had. Then you will want to create a new partition... create a Primary DOS partition... That's it for fdisk reboot your computer w/ the boot disk still in.

Now you're gonna format... this is the easy part... HOWEVER most ppl don't know this about Win95 and 98... when you format it DOESN'T just install the system files like it supposed to... you have to force it to. So... what you do is type this: format c: /s
The /s is the trigger that forces earlier versions of windows to install the proper files.

Hopefully you should have a working windows now if you've done all that jazz :).

It's been a minute since I've formatted 95/98 but I'm pretty sure I'm still on the mark w/ it. I've built lots of computers... so if that doesn't work then you may just need a new HDD. Hope that helps.

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Posted 19 April 2004 - 04:34 AM

sorry for the puncuation but here is whats wrong i know all that.

on my other computer i tryed isntalling XP both formats but after it restarts it doesnt want to goto the XP install screen so i said forget it. today i got win 98 SE and i tryed installing it i selected with cd rom support then it went fine it said we need to check your system then it went to a screen and it said that i have NHFS or something format so i said ok i guess its from me trying to isntall XP so i took out the CD put in the XP cd went thougheverything and reformated with the XP cd as FAT i took out the cd it went to restart blakc screen again (i was waiting for it) so then i put in the 98 se cd and restarted then i did what i did the first time i tryed installing it but this time when it asked boot from HD or CD rom i selected from CD just how i did the first time (the time that i had the XP format on there) but it didnt goto install with cd rom support or not it just went ot a black screen with a blinking "_" so then i reformated with the XP cd as that new format and then did the same thing it worked but when it goes to check my system it says that its not the right format. so i did the same thing and formated with the xp cd as FAT then i put in the 98 se cd again and it did the same thing it starts up then i select boot from CD and then it just goes to a blakc screen with a blinking "_" it doesnt goto install with cd rom support and all that stuff. can someone help

edit: i tryed fdisking when i was in the new XP format when it actually lets me do stuff but it said critical error deviding integer 0 or something so i cant fdisk.

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Posted 19 April 2004 - 04:53 AM

this is what i get when i try to FDISK.

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Posted 19 April 2004 - 05:06 AM

You need to fdisk off whatever drive you used to boot into DOS. so if u used a CD to boot into DOS it would be D:\> fdisk... if it's a floppy you need to switch over to your A drive obviously.

Also another thing that could possibly affect your computer not wanting to boot up the XP install... is your memory... if you have a bad chip, different chips, etc.

Also, if you reformat using the XP reformat it DOES NOT get rid of the main sys files... it just hides them, which is another reason to fdisk. Also, the XP disk doesn't allow you to run the fdisk command. You need a boot disk, 95/98/me disk to run it.

And during the XP install... when the computer reboots itself... don't place it back to boot from CD cause it will just try to start over. It's installed enough of the system that it doesn't need to be booted from that CD anymore and will access the CD as it needs it.

I'm out for the night though man... hope any of that helps. I'll check in the morning see if you've got it.

EDIT: if you still have problems my AIM is on this forum... just click the AIM icon and it will give you my name... and I'll help you out after I get off work if you still haven't figured it out.

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Posted 19 April 2004 - 08:22 PM

i tryed all D and A and it gives me the link above and when i do C: to go into C it says that it was an invalid drive specification is it possible that C is broken?

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Posted 20 April 2004 - 01:00 AM

i installed it thanks for the help everyone!

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Posted 20 April 2004 - 01:32 AM

could you possible tell us what the problem was?

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Posted 20 April 2004 - 02:18 AM

i guess i had to made an FDISK. before i was just using the boot disk and i also had to format the C drive.

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