Hello! If you can give me any advice with the following problem, I’d truly appreciate it. I’ve talked to several PC knowledgeable people and no one can figure it out.
I’m trying to install Win98SE (to a proven-good hard drive), which I’ve done a number of times in the past with no trouble. Both floppy and CD drives are in perfect working order. What is happening is this: When I try to install directly from the Win98 CD [BIOS boot order Floppy > CD >HD], after selecting “boot from CD”, I get the “Welcome to Setup …” screen and click Continue to start the Scandisk tests. The tests complete with no errors. But the system does NOT pause to allow me to select Exit. It jumps directly to “Please wait until Setup initializes. Scanning system registry. Copying files needed for Windows setup … Please remove any floppies from the drive and press any key to restart.” Then, after restart, instead of opening the setup wizard, I am cycled back to the “select Boot from hard drive or Boot from CD” screen, and the whole process starts over again ---- it’s an endless loop.
If I try to install from the Win98SE boot floppy which came with the CD [BIOS boot order Floppy > HD > CD], after selecting “Start computer with CD support, the floppy proceeds through its setup and I arrive at the command prompt. I then enter E:\setup and again the Scandisk tests run with no problems. When I select “Exit”, the “Please wait until Setup initializes. Scanning system registry. Copying files needed for Windows setup …” message appears. But this time, instead of the setup wizard opening, I am returned to the command prompt. I tried again, this time using your FAT32 supported startup disk, but with the same results.
I carefully checked the BIOS and found no incorrect settings. I considered that maybe the installation CD was corrupted, so I tried my brother’s 98SE CD and had the same results. I am at my wits end ---- any ideas? Thanks much, Dan Tidaback.
I’m trying to install Win98SE (to a proven-good hard drive), which I’ve done a number of times in the past with no trouble. Both floppy and CD drives are in perfect working order. What is happening is this: When I try to install directly from the Win98 CD [BIOS boot order Floppy > CD >HD], after selecting “boot from CD”, I get the “Welcome to Setup …” screen and click Continue to start the Scandisk tests. The tests complete with no errors. But the system does NOT pause to allow me to select Exit. It jumps directly to “Please wait until Setup initializes. Scanning system registry. Copying files needed for Windows setup … Please remove any floppies from the drive and press any key to restart.” Then, after restart, instead of opening the setup wizard, I am cycled back to the “select Boot from hard drive or Boot from CD” screen, and the whole process starts over again ---- it’s an endless loop.
If I try to install from the Win98SE boot floppy which came with the CD [BIOS boot order Floppy > HD > CD], after selecting “Start computer with CD support, the floppy proceeds through its setup and I arrive at the command prompt. I then enter E:\setup and again the Scandisk tests run with no problems. When I select “Exit”, the “Please wait until Setup initializes. Scanning system registry. Copying files needed for Windows setup …” message appears. But this time, instead of the setup wizard opening, I am returned to the command prompt. I tried again, this time using your FAT32 supported startup disk, but with the same results.
I carefully checked the BIOS and found no incorrect settings. I considered that maybe the installation CD was corrupted, so I tried my brother’s 98SE CD and had the same results. I am at my wits end ---- any ideas? Thanks much, Dan Tidaback.