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Upgrading to 98
Hi can you please help? I have 2 hard drives in my computer and want to fit a third one and install Windows 98. My present 3.2gb hard drive is partitioned into 3 sections, I want to reformat this drive with out the present partitions, using it as my new C:\ drive. It is configured in the BYOS as the master with the CD-ROM as the slave.
(1) Am I correct in doing this from a dos prompt in A:\ and using fdisc from a dos 5 set. Then reformatting using fformat, what are the commands if any to use here?
(2) I want to then install the upgrade version of windows 98 on to this drive, I understand that I require a file to be extracted from my windows 95 CD and put on C:\ for this to work , what is this files name.
(3) Do I to have the CD-ROM driver installed or is mscder.exe enough to get the CD-ROM to operate from dos.
(4) I will also be installing an LS120 floppy drive, as I will have no spare IDE sockets available on the motherboard I will be using the one on my sound card will this auto detect in the BYOS?
(5) My other 2 hard drives are a new 6.4gb and a 1.7gb does it make any difference which one I have configured as the master or slave?
(6) If you can think of anything else I need to know please tell me.
Regards Graham.
(1) Am I correct in doing this from a dos prompt in A:\ and using fdisc from a dos 5 set. Then reformatting using fformat, what are the commands if any to use here?
(2) I want to then install the upgrade version of windows 98 on to this drive, I understand that I require a file to be extracted from my windows 95 CD and put on C:\ for this to work , what is this files name.
(3) Do I to have the CD-ROM driver installed or is mscder.exe enough to get the CD-ROM to operate from dos.
(4) I will also be installing an LS120 floppy drive, as I will have no spare IDE sockets available on the motherboard I will be using the one on my sound card will this auto detect in the BYOS?
(5) My other 2 hard drives are a new 6.4gb and a 1.7gb does it make any difference which one I have configured as the master or slave?
(6) If you can think of anything else I need to know please tell me.
Regards Graham.
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1) FDISK from DOS 5 may not work. It may not recognise a drive over a certain amount. (ie. 512MB or 2GB) I recommend you use a WIN98, or a WIN95 startup disk to run FDISK (after booting with it).
2) Windows98 runs a compliance check on over 100 files. You must have a Win95 CD or Disk set. It isn't necessary to copy files, but you must install a CDROM driver from DOS to use your CD drive for verification.
3) You must have an entry for your driver in config.sys usually looks like:
DEVICE=C:\GOODRV.SYS /D:MYCD001
Then either in autoexec.bat or on the command line:
MSCDEX /D:MYCD001 /L:E
the /D: switch tells you which driver (case and name must be the same) and the /L: switch uses that drive letter.
4) Sorry -- 4 IDE Devices (on 2 channels) per customer and BTW -- If Creative's IDE port shows up in device manager, I'd disable it. While were asking, though. Why would a floppy drive go on the IDE channel? Should go as secondary on the floppy controller (unless you have a tape drive?)
5) General rule: Put the bigger drive as master, if practical, because they are generally newer and faster.
6) Remove Anti-virus utilities for the Setup program.
Remove extra display utilities from the startup menu (like Diamond's InControl tools.
Read the README file.
2) Windows98 runs a compliance check on over 100 files. You must have a Win95 CD or Disk set. It isn't necessary to copy files, but you must install a CDROM driver from DOS to use your CD drive for verification.
3) You must have an entry for your driver in config.sys usually looks like:
DEVICE=C:\GOODRV.SYS /D:MYCD001
Then either in autoexec.bat or on the command line:
MSCDEX /D:MYCD001 /L:E
the /D: switch tells you which driver (case and name must be the same) and the /L: switch uses that drive letter.
4) Sorry -- 4 IDE Devices (on 2 channels) per customer and BTW -- If Creative's IDE port shows up in device manager, I'd disable it. While were asking, though. Why would a floppy drive go on the IDE channel? Should go as secondary on the floppy controller (unless you have a tape drive?)
5) General rule: Put the bigger drive as master, if practical, because they are generally newer and faster.
6) Remove Anti-virus utilities for the Setup program.
Remove extra display utilities from the startup menu (like Diamond's InControl tools.
Read the README file.
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(4) think you can run one of the ide socket on the sound card