The command is copy powerprof.dll c:\windows\system
Make sure you have disabled your virus protection is bios, something isn't right if you crashed during th einstall. Dave

If you identify at what step the installation failed that may help, determining what may have caused it to fail, it could be harddrive or removing the cards (ISA and PCI) until you have the OS loaded. Have you run a scanidisk on the drive, windows hould have during the install? Will it come up in safemode or didn't you get that far? It sounds like hardware or the virus protection in bios crashed from wht you described. Dave

When installing or upgrading Windows, I've found it better to install from the hard drive itself, rather than the CD. It accomplishes several things. If you need to install a driver before the controller(s) plug and play, you may not have a CD Drive to install them from yet. Also, once you've installed from the HDD (if done properly), you may never need the CD again. If later, you add hardware or features which need the 98 CD, it will automatically go to the installation directory on the HDD for the CAB file info (beacuse of the registry entries for the installation directory). To do this, I create a folder called CABS under the C:\WINDOWS folder. I then copy ALL THE FILES from the CD:\Win98 folder to the created directory C:\WINDOWS\CABS (you shouldn't need the folders from under the CD:\Win98 directory, but you can copy those also if hard drive space permits). Reboot to DOS mode. CD to C:\WINDOWS\CABS and type SETUP. Works like a charm. The only caveat is that the CAB files will eat up around 100MB of HDD space. On newer machines, this is just a drop in the bucket, but you can decide if it's worth it. It is to me.

Now, to your problem. If you do as I suggest above, you may get through the issue altogether. If not, just boot into safe mode, run SFC (Start/Run/Type: SFC/Click OK/Click the radio button to "Extract one file from installation disk"?Click "Start"). When The next window appears, type into the text box for "Restore from:" "C:\WINDOWS\CABS" and "Restore To:" "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM" and click "OK". That will restore the file in question.

But I truly believe that the installation from HDD will fix your problem.

- Jim

if you had win98 1st edition installed before this failed upgrade,,,,,then in order to get windows back up,,,,,hold down ctrl key on bootup and at the menu select command prompt only,,,,,then type  C:\scanreg/restore     enter,,,,,pick older reg date and restore,,,,,,this should get windows back(seen this work on failed upgrades),,,,,,,,then do as jmfairchild  suggested and copy win98 SE dir off cd to your hd and run setup from dos,,,,,,,James

if you are infact useing a upgrade win98SE cd to upgrade 1st edition your prob not going to like the end results,,,,,normanaly very troublesome.....a clean install is always better,,,,,let us know what you are doing

Thank you very much

Glad your up and running! Best of luck to you! :>) Dave

boy was that an experience.......lol

:>)

btw people......I found out it was Norton works that caused the installation to fail.....................BOOOOOOOO............................................. NORTON.......-)

Thanks for the feedback. :>)