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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Setup / August 2005installing windows
Ive just formatted my HDD and tried to reinstall and i get "Bad fault in MS-DOS Extender" Ive reset the CMOS, changed ram, CPU, hdd and still nothing ive tried another boot disk as well, still no difference  Signatureb21playa If you formatted the drive already, then you must have been able to boot to the Windows Startup floppy disk, correct? Does it now not boot? Or is this error occurring later on? If later on, when, exactly, does this error occur? SignatureGary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User > Ive just formatted my HDD and tried to reinstall and i get > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > ive tried another boot disk as well, still no difference >If you formatted the drive already, then you must have been able to boot to >the Windows Startup floppy disk, correct? Does it now not boot? Or is this >error occurring later on? If later on, when, exactly, does this error occur? Gary, that is the message on DOS screen, after Setup stops with SUWIN ERROR <can't recall the number> and closes itself after pressing Ok. My further explanations are in the main part of this thread. -- Mikhail Zhilin MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== 'K, thanks, Mikhail. I see you have it handled. You coming to Seattle next month? SignatureGary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User >>If you formatted the drive already, then you must have been able to boot >>to [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Please reply to the newsgroups only. > ====== >'K, thanks, Mikhail. I see you have it handled. > >You coming to Seattle next month? Gary, at least I'm planning to be there. :) -- Mikhail Zhilin MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== Cool! SignatureGary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User >>'K, thanks, Mikhail. I see you have it handled. >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Please reply to the newsgroups only. > ====== >Ive just formatted my HDD and tried to reinstall and i get > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >ive tried another boot disk as well, still no difference Usually that happens when the HDD is wrongly partitioned, even if Fdisk had been used. In this case Fdisk from Win95/98 may not correct this problem -- but there are several ways to solve it. I prefer Bootit Next Generation, www.bootitng.com (30-day fully functional shareware). You can download bootitng.zip from there, unpack the archive, and run the extracted Bootitng.exe to create a bootable diskette. Boot from this diskette, cancel "Continue" window, confirm the next message, and select Partition Work button at the left. As I understood, your HDD contains no data. Then delete all the partitions of it (were there a data on HDD -- it would be lost at this step), and create the primary FAT32 partition with the size of your choice, with formatting. In a few seconds, after format is finished, you can cancel Surface Test to save your time. Make this partition active. Quit Partition Work, and quit Bootit NG (a button at the right bottom of its window). Remove BootitNG diskette, and insert your Win98 setup diskette. I think, all will be Ok after that. -- Mikhail Zhilin MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== |
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