Win 98 - half loaded????

[reddevilggg]

My mate brought his PC round my house yesterday. It 'was' running windows 98 but he tried to reinstall Win98 and he said it froze half way through the installation and now cant get anything to work.
It has a recovery disk with system files and a Win 98 disk. When running the installation disc it says that there is a disk compressor on the hard drive and therefore cannot run set-up, but because i cannot run windows, even in safe mode, i cannot uninstall it.

Im stuck.  Can anyone relieve my stress?

Oh yeah, the PC was built by TIME

[The Saviour]

If there is nothing on the hard drive he wants to save, I recommend doing a clean install, using fdisk to repartition and reformat the hard drive and then using the recovery software to reinstall the OS.  A clean install is usually the best route, since trying to reinstall an OS over an existing one usually causes issues.

[reddevilggg]

Do i use fdisk from Start/Run or in MS-DOS, im a little unsure

[The Saviour]

DOS...

Do you need the particulars?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867

[reddevilggg]

Yes, please. I like it says under my picture, im a newbie

[The Saviour]

Check the link in my previous post.

[reddevilggg]

Thanks for the info, it worked a treat. Apparently (after reading your link and related links) the problem was that the installation CD wasn't downloading the drivers correctly. So every time the loading froze and a error message appeared it was just a case of opening the CD tray and turning the CD a quarter of a turn, closing it and pressing OK. The installation carried on everytime, i had to install a couple of drivers manually at the end but it all went well.
You learn something new everyday

Thanks again

[The Saviour]

You're welcome...I'm glad it all worked out for ya.