Installing win98 from scratch on a new h-disk??

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Ronald J. Bartle - 30 Sep 2003 17:10 GMT

A pal of mine is building thier own pc. They have a new hard disk
out of the box. No operating system at all. They have a win98
install cd. What else is necessary. Does she have to have a set of
DOS install disks. How about formating the hard disk.

It is years and years since I have done any of this - what steps does
one have to take - one after the other to get this done?

Perhaps you know a www site where all this is described - or M-soft
url for this?

ron b.

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Bernard W. Joseph - 30 Sep 2003 21:28 GMT

> A pal of mine is building thier own pc. They have a new hard disk
> out of the box. No operating system at all. They have a win98
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> ron b.

You need a floppy bootdisk that allows you to format the disk, partition
it, and enables the CD drive. See: http://www.bootdisk.com/ and thank a
previous contributer.

Bernard

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Ron Badour - 30 Sep 2003 21:44 GMT

You have to partition the drive using fdisk and then format the
partition(s). For information on installing W98, go to:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html

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> A pal of mine is building thier own pc. They have a new hard disk
> out of the box. No operating system at all. They have a win98
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> ron b.

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