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Windows 98 will not Install

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I deleted my DOS partition on my first drive (C🙂 . I have two hard drives, so the CDROM is E: , right? I am trying to install windows 98 then apply the windows ME "upgrade". When I put the boot disk in and choose "Install windows 98 from CDROM" i see a couple of adaptec driver messages go by, then I get "Scanning PCI bus using Mechanism #2..." . After this it hangs and I am unable to restart the computer using CTRL-ALT-DELETE. I have a linux distro on my second (D🙂 drive on primary partitions hdb1, hdb3, and hdb4. Should I just clean everything off both drives then try? Thanks in advance.
 
You should try the old method , like making a bootable floppy disk from win98 or win95osr2.1
Then format the c drive,install cdrom software that came with your cdrom drivea(for dos) and then ahead u go in win98 install!
 
You should do all over again.. For installation of CDROM in DOS you need not to have driver for CDROM, instead win98 startup disk will do the job. OR copy mscdex.exe and oakcdrom.sys files from win98 startup disk to any folder say "temp" at C: (after formatting all ove again and transferring sys files to C🙂
and enter the command lines in
autoexec.bat file
C:\temp\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001
and in config.sys file
device=c:\oakcdrom.sys /d:mscd001
and rboot your system
this will enable your cdrom in DOS mode
 
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