Help with Win98 Install

[Gookin]

I have an old 8.4 gig hard drive that had win98 installed on it. I realized my hard drive had 4 partitions. Apparently it also had DOS installed. I formatted my hard drive to clear everything and figured I'd start all over without DOS so I can maximize my 8.4 HD. I used the 98 boot disc, went through FDisk and made one partition only. I restarted my computer and at the a: promt, I typed "format c". I formatted my c drive. Once done, I thought I could just install win98 and the cd would self install. It didnt. I tried using different commands and no luck. After being frustrated, I reinstalled DOS and when it was done, I had no problem installing win98. Can ANYONE tell me what I am doing wrong?? I hate the fact that I am using maybe 2 gigs of an 8.4 gig hard drive. HELP PLEASE!!!!

 

[dkdude]

If your windows install CD is not a bootable CD, then you need to install a CD driver onto your system before you can access the drive with the CD in it.

Wasting HD space? If FDISK reports one big partition, then nothing is lost. If it doesn't, then :

1. Delete all partitions and extended drives etc.

2. Create a partition that takes up 100% of the HD.

3. Set the partition active

... and have a go again!

Good luck §;O)


Jakob

PS. Put MSD on your boot floppy. MSD can tell you many things, like if the CD driver is installed.

 

[diogenes10]

After your harddrive is formatted, you could also copy the win98 folder from the cd to the harddrive and then run setup from the harddrive.

(the win98 bootdisk should have generic cd rom support. If it doesnt you can look here

http://www.oldstuff.myagora.net/powerload/bootdisk.htm