I just reformated my friends hard drive, please help?

[nubomb]

I'm planning on reinstalling Windows 98SE. I already erased the old partition and created a new one. DO I need to install a generic driver to get my CD-Rom drive D: to work? Is there anythintg else I would need?

Oh and the command to start the install is Install?

Thanks foryour help!!

 

[smp]

Setup

is the command you're looking for. I can't remember now if the win98 CD is bootable or not, but you can go into the bios and set the machine to boot off of CD first, and then try to boot off of the CD .. otherwise just stick a win98 boot floppy into the FDD, boot off of that and when it prompts you say yes to CD support. When you get the A; prompt type "setup" ..

 

[jlee]

Boot from the Win98 CD (you may have to go to the BIOS, and put CD first in the boot order). A menu will come up, asking if you want to boot into MSDOS with CD support, without CD support, or run Win98 setup. Select run Win98 setup.

If you boot from a floppy, the command to install Windows is "setup" (without the quotes), given from the root setup directory.

 

[Wolfsraider]

all windows since win 95 are bootable

hope this helps

 

[chucky2]

In addition to what was suggested above, and providing your hardware can boot off the CD drive, it's a good idea to set the boot sequence to C, CDROM, ...

This way, when the setup routine has to reboot the machine, you won't have to take the CD-ROM out of the drive and then put it back in.

Just a little time saver.

Chuck

 

[Gunbuster]

<<all windows since win 95 are bootable>>

IIRC I had a (real) Win ME cd that was not bootable

lots of badly burned juarez cds are also not bootable

 

[nubomb]

Thanks for the replies.

I used the Win 98 boot disk but it never prompted me to boot off cd? Maybe there is something wrong with disk? I'll try another.

Would it matter that it's a burned copy of 98SE (it's an upgrade). I have the original 95 but the last time I did this I only needed it for verification.

Anyway I'll try changing the Bios settings. Thanks again.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

The win98 start up diskette won't give you an option to boot to CD. it just gives an option to load with CD support. Then you have to run the setup.exe file on the CD.

I however prefered to copy all the CAB files to HDD and run the setup from there. No CD to worry about after coping the files, and it's faster.

 

[Wolfsraider]

yes as stated burned copies often are not bootable
yes upgrade cd's are also in this group as they assume you are installing from windows(although some are bootable not all are)
the first statement about all disks was under the assumption of retail disks sorry for the confusion


mike