Win 98 SE Setup Error - SU0013, Can't copy files

[Kelemvor]

Can anyone help me out with this? Here's the situation

I bought a new 40 gig HDD. It is partitioned into 5 and 35 gig FAT32 partitions. Plan is to put Win98 SE and anything related to it on the C Drive and everything ese program related on the D drive.

I copied the Win98 SE CD file onto the C drive to install Windows directly off the Hard Drive which I always do. However, when I run the setup.exe file, it does the standard ScanDisk, then brings me to the Windows Setup Screen. After waiting for the blue bar to go to 100% I then get an error that says:

Error SU0013
Setup could not create files on your startup drive and cannot set up Windows. If you have HPFS or Windows NT file system, you must create an MS-DOS boot partition. If you have LANtastic server or SuperStor compression, disable it before running Setup. See SETUP.TXT on Setup Disk 1 or the Windows CD-ROM.

Has anyone encountered thsi and gotten around it somehow? The microsoft.com site didn't offer much help and I'm stuck.

Thanks.

 

[LiLithTecH]

You need to boot from a DOS bootdisk or a Win98 Startup disk.

The drive overlay program (such as EZ-Drive) is conflicting
with the installation files.

Also, if you are running EZ-Drive, make sure the Floppy Protection is disabled.

 

[Kelemvor]

I'm not using anything like EZ Drive or anything that I know of. I unplugged all other drives except for the new HDD and a CD ROM. I booted off a 98 Start Up disk and that's where I got the problem. I also tried to make the HDD Bootable directly but that didn't work for some reason.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.

 

[SPAnDAU]

When you boot off of the Windows CD can you browse the C: drive? also check to see what the capacity of the C: drive is.
If you boot off of the windows CD and run FDISK, can it see the partitions?
Did you create the partitions witht the same Windows CD you are booting from?

If yes to all these, I'd start from scratch again. FDISK it all over again and try one more time.

EDIT -- KanT sPelL. wenT to puBlik sKool

 

[Kelemvor]

I wasn't booting from the Windows CD, I was booting frmo a Win98 BOot Disk. I originally put the new drive in as a slave and use Partition Magic to create the partitions and copy the Windows files to it. Then I made it the master to install WIndows which is where the problems started.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Windows is detecting something that's not supposed to be there.

Try clearing the Master Boot Record.

From a DOS prompt type: FDISK /mbr

 

[AKA]

Here.. this will actually help you.

SU Errors

 

[SPAnDAU]

Did you set the partition as 'active' in fdisk?