Preserved Topic: Oh crap! Help!!!!! (Page 1 of 1)

So as you no, my new PC arrived and I'm got everything transferred over from the old PC. Someone want to buy the old one from me so this morning I created a startup disk (Win 98SE). Booted from it and formatted the hard drive. Now all I want to do is load Windows 98SE onto the Hard Drive so I can sell it.
How the bloody hell do I do it. When I boot from the startup disk it asks me if I want to bookt with CD support. YES. But then I just get into DOS. I only remember a few DOS commands. I tried dir e: just to make sure the CD drives are working and they are okay.

So how the hell do I get windows back on the hard drive??? Sounds so simple but I haven't a clue.
HELP HELP HELP

First insure that E: drive letter points to CD-ROM (startup disk adds additional RAM DISK before CD, which gets shifted by one place). After that just type "E:" [enter] and then "setup" [enter] ...

Crap beat me to it

(just did this 3 times in the last month)

Shine a light into the......

Is Funny.. Everyone with a post of 'I got a new computer' comes later with something like this, always!!


Max is right, but i dunno, in spanish wasn't setup, was install....

You also can type the dir command and see wich one is the .exe (normally there's only one in the root directory)

I can't believe it. Thats exactly what I tried about 3 times this morning. E: return setup return. And It kept coming up with "Needs Windows". So I've just tried another CD of Windows 98SE and done the same thing and its working. I must have got a crap copy of windows thats got something missing or something. Anyway, the good news is, I'm not as dumb as I thought and its installing now with the decent CD that works.

*throws crap windows version into the trash*

Sorry to waste everyones time, I just thought maybe it was more complicated than that when what I tried failed and this morning.



[This message has been edited by TheTrixter (edited 10-20-2001).]

Are you sure you're not running the WIn 98 SE UPGRADE version...if so, that is why it says it needs windows, cause it wants to upgrade 98 to 98 SE. You need to get the full installation version, and then when you do it, just to make life easier on your firned who is buying the hard disk, on the CD there should be a directory called 'Win98' or something similar. This is all the installation files again. Copy that to the hard disk, so if your firned installs any new hardware, he/she doesn't have to stick the same cd you installed windows from (it has to be the same CD, copy protection you see) into the CD-ROM drive just to get it to install the new drivers, cause they're already contained in the Win98 directory.

TO do this (and this is assuming the hard disk you are installing Win 98 SE on is drive C)

C:

md Win98

e:

copy e:\Win98\*.* c:\Win98

et voila!

Hey can I do this to transfer directories to my new logical disk (partition)? That way I wouldn't have to reinstall everything just because I want to move it to more spacious disk>..