pc unable to install win 95 / 98 - Office 2000

[mpesa]

After formatting my pc and try to install win 95 or 98 using the win 98 boot diskette to have access to the CD support then I run the setup.exe file just after the scandisk process I have the following error message:

1)IF YOU HAVE HPFS or NTFS INSTALLED ON YOUR HARD DRIVES YOU WILL NEED TO CREATE AN MS-DOS BOOT PARTITION TO SET UP WINDOWS.


2) IN SOME CASES I RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE : UNABLE LOCAL BLOCK ADDRESSING (LBA) AND RUN SETUP OR PARTITION IS LABELED NON - LBA


I try to take the hard disk to a another computer and managed to install but after taking it back to the original It gives me this message
ISK I/O ERROR REPLACE THE DISK AND THEN PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE


I need help to setup the system.


Another problem is on the installation of office 2000 where I get the windows installer error massage 23xx during the course of the installation on a hard drive with WIN95 OR 98.

Any help ?

 

[ski]

Did you repartition the HD before reformatting it as described here:

http://www.kids-online.net/learn/fdisk.html

 

[ceh4702]

If that hard drive ever had NTFS partitions or WinXP/NT/Win2K, it may have some partition info referring to NTFS in the first portion of the drive wich is hidden. I know XP writes stuff to the first part of the drive which is hidden. One way to get rid of it is to erase or write zeros to the beginning of the drive or the entire drive. This will completely eliminate all hidden switches and data from the drive. Of course after this you have to repartition the drive and reformat it.

If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[edfair]

If you are installing 95 on a partition created and formatted with the 98EBD you are running into a media descriptor problem. You will need to create the partition with DOS or 95. Create it with 95, format it with 95, then use the 98 to get CD access and it will install correctly.

Should install 98 correctly if you used the same version 98 boot disk. If it dowsn't, there is another problem.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[TekTippy4U]

Does anyone here think that possibly Mpesa hit the dreaded Compaq /PB Hidden System Partition prob....?

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[edfair]

I would suspect not. The partition should show in whatever fdisk he uses. But there is no way to really know until the existing parition info is given to us.
Since the drive did install on another machine I would be more suspicious of some timing problems. Or cable problems.

Zero fill will occasionally resolve this kind of problem and that would be my next suggestion. Like ceh4702.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[TekTippy4U]

hmm.....yes, very interesting,,,,he was able to install on another PC...hmm
Hardware detection all scewy maybe?....and I can't seem to get over that LBA message....seems like a really old BIOS....and/or it's not set to "Auto"...and/or the HDD is so old that the parameters need to be set manually.
The DISK I/O error is a Volume Boot record error (it's looking to load the system files, which may be non-existent)

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