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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:25:43 -0800
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On 15 Jan 2007 at 20:52, Chet Baker wrote:

> I recently attemted to reformat my hard drive and install win 98
> following the instuctions on this site. I made the boot floopy disc,
> and followed the directions to the letter. I cannot get it to read
> from the floppy,I set the bios to boot from the floppy first. I just
> get an  A; prompt or a C; prompt. Someone I taled to  said maybe I
> have to repartition it?? Thanks for your help. 

  If you can get the machine to boot diretly from the Win98 CD, that's the 
easiest approach.
  If you can't, the fallback is to boot from a boot floppy *with CD driver 
support*, place the Win98 CD in the CD-ROM drive, switch to that drive 
letter (try D: first, then C: if that's not right) and run "setup" from that 
DOS prompt.

David Gillett

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