Hi. I recently bought a new hard drive for my computer and I have partitioned it and formatted it. I boot from a back up floppy like my technician book says but when it says to reboot and that it should boot from C: the win 98 screen comes on for a split second then goes back to the setup menu again. Ive done everything i could think of or read about and I have also deleted the partition and format then re did the process many times for about an hour and a half with no luck. I dont know what is wrong or what I should do. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.
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I suppose I should be more specific...
If it's a replacement drive for the one that had windows on it you need to reinstall windows. If it's a replacement for a secondary storage drive make sure that it is not set before your primary drive in the BIOS boot order (you can look up how to do this in your motherboards manual).
It just occured to me that you may be leaving the floppy or windows setup disk in the drive. You'll want to take that out.
If it's a replacement drive for the one that had windows on it you need to reinstall windows. If it's a replacement for a secondary storage drive make sure that it is not set before your primary drive in the BIOS boot order (you can look up how to do this in your motherboards manual).
It just occured to me that you may be leaving the floppy or windows setup disk in the drive. You'll want to take that out.
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I had the backup floppy which is even says to use in my technician manual. I run threough the setup process and i do everything like formatting and doing the partitions when trying to install win 98. Another reason I use the floppy backup is because the original cd that i have doesnt work when I have it in the drive my backup floppy takes me farther. After partitioning and formatting my drive I do take out the floppy then I boot and it fails , it just brings me back to the setup menu again
I had the backup floppy which is even says to use in my technician manual. I run threough the setup process and i do everything like formatting and doing the partitions when trying to install win 98. Another reason I use the floppy backup is because the original cd that i have doesnt work when I have it in the drive my backup floppy takes me farther. After partitioning and formatting my drive I do take out the floppy then I boot and it fails , it just brings me back to the setup menu again
Yes I am running win 98 I cant install Xp or Vista the computer is a 95 and is only gonna be used for general things basically just email. Thats what I use the floppy for to install and format my drive.
Please Clarify
So are you saying that you are trying to re-install Windows 98 using floppies or are you getting hung up on the part where you put the floppy in the drive, boot, fdisk, format and then remove the floppy to insert the Windows 98 CD?
-If it is when you are trying to use the CD, it could be because you don't have a boot floppy that is giving you CD-ROM support in Dos.
-If it is some kind of backup floppy that you created to help your old computer boot in the event of a crash, it may be looking for files that were on the old drive, which will obviously not be on this one.
Can you tell us more about the floppy and the process? Where did the floppy come from? Did you make it or was it given to you? Does it have a label on it? Is Windows 98 itself on a CD or floppy?
So are you saying that you are trying to re-install Windows 98 using floppies or are you getting hung up on the part where you put the floppy in the drive, boot, fdisk, format and then remove the floppy to insert the Windows 98 CD?
-If it is when you are trying to use the CD, it could be because you don't have a boot floppy that is giving you CD-ROM support in Dos.
-If it is some kind of backup floppy that you created to help your old computer boot in the event of a crash, it may be looking for files that were on the old drive, which will obviously not be on this one.
Can you tell us more about the floppy and the process? Where did the floppy come from? Did you make it or was it given to you? Does it have a label on it? Is Windows 98 itself on a CD or floppy?
No I have a win 98 cd and a backup floppy. I fried my old hard drive the one that originally came with the computer. I bought a used 13 gb hard drive. I used the floppy disk because it didnt recognize the win 98 cd. I got through the partition and format and scan disk. The new one was wiped completely. So after running scandisk my book says to eject the floppy and start your comp and because you formatted it that it should now boot from C: and it starts to the win 98 screen comes up for a split second and then brings me back to the win 98 setup screen. The win 98 cd is the actual software cd and the floppy is one that I made
The floppy is an old one that I had deleted all the info off of and then I backed up win 98 on it. So should I just try using the cd to get to the partition and format setup? When I stick the cd in nothing happens which is why I use the floppy I ran through the process like my book says using the floppy but when I eject it to boot up it doesnt boot from C:/ like it says it should