Run fdisk, delete the partition and create a new one, then format the drive and try it again. If the problem persists, the drive could very well have a problem even if it formats.

HTH,

Jose



Paul Ryan wrote:

>     Hi I'm trying to install win 98 on a friend of mines computer all goes well untill it starts to configure hardware.  then I get a blue screen with the message that it cannot write to disk C data may be lost, and that's the end. After the first attempt I reformatted C and ran scandisk surface no errors found.  I could try another hard drive but I don't see how scan disk and format work without problems but I can't install. He bought the computer used and we don't have any info on the previous OS
> Thank you for any tipps

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