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    Win98 hangs up on install

    I formatted and made sure everything was OK via fdisk again. I then copied everything to the C drive with copy f:\win98\*.* and I saw a lot of CAB files get copied. I then, without a restart, tried c: win98\setup.exe and scandisk showed everything OK again. At that same splash screen, though...
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    Win98 hangs up on install

    Hi, Several of you helped me out when I was helping a friend do a format of 10.2 GB startup disk. It finally shows FAT32 and 100% usage. Now, upon installing win98, it goes through scandisk and shows everything OK. Then it stops at the Windows 98 ßetup screen. It's the screen that shows...
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    Can you walk me through a format/re-install of W98?

    Thanks for the info. One question, though. After deleting partitions and making one partition, what has to be done to make that partition active? Thanks again. Lou.
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    Can you walk me through a format/re-install of W98?

    Guys, I was trying to help a friend but something went waaaaay wrong. He did a format and I was going to help him but he was showing C and D drives. He said he wanted only 1 drive/partition so I deleted one of the partitions that said it was non-DOS with fdisk. We then did another format but...