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andyoliver

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installing windows 98-
« on: February 07, 2009, 05:39:38 AM »
hi all, had a good search , but am going around in circles ,

d ban - nuked my old p3 750 nec versa apitude,

lost my boot disk so went to nec site and down loaded there one win 98se

ran through the fdisk then formatted c now

with the bootdisk in when i start computer it

microsoft windows 98 startup menu

runs through process then says

A:/> 

what do i type?

thanks -  great site could not have got this far without it though well out of depth, 

Dias de verano

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Re: installing windows 98-
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2009, 06:34:01 AM »
You booted from a floppy disk?

If this...

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lost my boot disk

 ...means you have lost the Windows 98 install CD then there is nothing that you can type that will reinstall Windows.

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Re: installing windows 98-
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2009, 06:38:59 AM »
From there you need to log the CDROM drive...type D: and hit Enter.
Then at the D: prompt type setup and hit Enter.

NOTE: Some bootdisks make the CDROM R: by default so it would be R: Enter then setup Enter.
To find which drive it is if it's not D or R use the dir command for each letter of the alphabet starting with D:
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