gulfcoastman
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win 98
i want to clean my entire hard drive and reinstall win 98, but when i insert the disc into the cd rom i get no response.....what do i have to do?
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Dennis
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if you want to use the win98 (Full version) cd as a boot disk you must first go into the bios of your computer by pressing f1 or f2 to enter set up. Look for a screen called boot, use right arrow to tab to this screen and look for first boot device and change to cd rom.(now insert the win98 cd in cd rom drive)press escape and save changes and exit. You will get a menu that say's boot from hard disk or cd rom select cd rom. Then you will get a message to start computer with cd rom support select that option, after bus scan and cd rom driver is installed you will get to the A:\> (called A prompt).
Then type in D: then hit enter
you are now at the D prompt.
type cd(then hit the space bar 1 time)win98 then hit enter
type in format c: /u (this will format your hard drive and remove all data) select y to proceed, this takes about 40 minutes. to install win98 type in d:
enter then cd win98 enter
now type in setup.exe and hit enter.
Then type in D: then hit enter
you are now at the D prompt.
type cd(then hit the space bar 1 time)win98 then hit enter
type in format c: /u (this will format your hard drive and remove all data) select y to proceed, this takes about 40 minutes. to install win98 type in d:
enter then cd win98 enter
now type in setup.exe and hit enter.
When you boot up with a Win98 bootdisk it will give you the option of having CD-Rom support, select that and at the A: you can switch to your CD-Rom and run setup from there.
Are you trying to do a clean install?? on a formatted HD?
Why are you going this route? is there a problem on your current setup?