Is it the Hard Drive? or me

[viney]

Toshiba Portege 300CT (laptop/portable) 6GBHD and 32MB

I have just purchased a second hand Hard Drive from ebay. After using fdisk to partition the disk (then reboot)and format c: I began the Windows 98 installation.

The pre installation scandisk took about 30mins at the File System stage and 15mins at the Free space stage, after this completed no bad sectors or errors were found.

The problem occurs after win98 has gone through the 40min setup, when requested to reboot the machine I did. But the laptop only booted into dos and prompted a: this should have let me continue with the rest of the win98 installation??

Have I done anything wrong or is it a problem with the new Hard Drive?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Rhort]

Viney, is there a disk in the floppy drive, perchance? ;-)

 

[viney]

Possibly, thankyou...is there a way that I skip the scandisk that happens before the setup starts, is there a command? c:/setup /?

 

[Scotsdude]

unfortunately no, there isn't. Scandisk is performed as an integral part of the setup, as it uses this to verify that it is possible to install to the drive, and that there are no problems with that drive.

If there was a floppy in the drive, then you won't need to run setup again, simply remove the floppy and restart the machine. The system will quite happily finish off the setup from there.

Scotsdude

 

[Speccie]

errr? have I missed something? Looks to me as there is no boot record on drive C. after Fdisk, scan disk it is normal to format with the /s parameter, (i.e. Format C: /s) and then do the install. There is a sys command to rebuild the boot record which is normally available on the startup diskette.
regards Michael

 

[viney]

Many thanks to you all, but new problems now...I think it is to do with the registry.

Win 98 has gone through most of the startup and got to one of the last stages (just after inputting the time) When updating the system setting I encountered a number of errors.

- Regsvr32
- "An error occurred while calling the function Dllnstall in c:\\windows\system\shdocvw.dll
- unable to write to c:
- illegal operation, rundll32 caused an invalid page fault in module kernal32.dll

Do I worry yet about the Hard Drive and try to get my cash back?

 

[Scotsdude]

just out of interest, are using a copy of W98, or is it the original?

Scotsdude

 

[viney]

The original win98, my brother has win98 second edition...worth trying?