Having trouble installing Win98SE.

[Bobsled]

I'm trying to install Win98SE on a PIII 1GHz/Asus CUSL2 combo with no luck. Basic set-up is CPU/Mobo w/ Chaintech MX420 video, SB Live 5.1, CR-ROM WD 8.4 (ATA66) HDD, and one double sided stick of Hynix 256MB PC133 RAM (in slot 1). Problem is with a clean HDD using a third party boot up disk, during the boot up process the HDD is assigned drive letter D and CD-ROM is letter E therefore OS can't be installed on a non-existant C drive. It was late last night a I haven't tried any diagnostics. Any help would be great. TIA.

 

[IamDavid]

1. Why use 3rd party boot disk? Just boot from CD, your system is definitely new enough..
2. Is the hard drive partitioned and formated? Run FDISK to partition and format to format..

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

If you cannot boot from the CD, Get a regular Win98 Boot floppy and boot to it..Run FDISK, set primary DOS partition(and make it active), format (format c: /s) and you should be golden. Restart comp with 98 floppy, choose to start with CD support, switch to E:\ drive(CD) and then type "setup" (without quotes).