I have a asus aliagpset motherboard with a 500 mhz cpu.
I decided to switch a harddrive from an older computer to the asus board.
hard drive: WD 4Gb
the new board picked up the harddrive and started win 98se. As it was going through the hardware detection phrase it encountered a file that was older than the one I was installing. I chose to replace the old with the new. Bad chose. when I reboot win will not start and i get “a write protection error” saying i must restart the sys.
I was able to boot from a disk and start a win98 reinstall. With a 500Mhz cpu it said that the installation will take 114 min. This seems to be an unusually long time to reinstall or do a clean install.
Do I need to reinstall the software that came with the motherboard?
Please explain why the slow reinstall of win98se and should I have done something differently.