windos 98 installaton problem

[prawinready]

hi all
my freind has 40 gb hardisk , intel celron 1.7 processor, while installing windows 98 it shows bluescreen and gives error VMM32.VXD not found and system restarts , i tried changing hardisks thiking that its virus in hardisk or badsectos problem but it shows the same problem , tried changing windows 98 cds and used orginal cds too , but the problem remains the same , windows xp and 2000 and 2003 are working fine if i install them . changed rams too and it did not work , wat is the problem for this , how can i overcome this , i like windows 98 a lot etc , plese help me to solve this problem.
thanks in advance

- praveen

 

[LiLithTecH]

You can give this a try.

Boot into SAFE-MODE (F8 @boot)
click START \ Run and type: msconfig
click the 'Autoexec.bat' tab
click 'NEW'
in the box that appears type: PATH = C:\Windows\;C:\Windows\System
press ENTER
click 'APPLY' & 'OK'

Reboot.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

You can boot to DOS with CD support using a Win98SE emergency boot disk. FDISK and format the hard drive. Then copy all the files in the \WIN98 folder on the CD to a folder called C:\WIN98 - just a straight file copy. You don't need any folders in that directory.

Switch to the c:\win98 folder on the hard drive and type SETUP at the DOS cammand prompt and it will install Win98 from the HDD (no need for the CD from this point on).