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HI wondered if anyone could help with this - I have a 800MHz Duron CPU with Maxtor 15G HD, 128M RAM, PCI internal modem, Panasonic SR-8585-C DVD-ROM drive. The HD is on IDE0 DVD on IDE1. When I try to install Windows (95 or 98)I boot OK from floopy and load CD drivers, I can then run setup from the DVD-ROM, all goes well up until the "Copying files to hard drive ..." step. A varying percentage of files are copied (between 7 and 27 %) then the whole instal freezes. The DVD-ROM light is out and there is also no HDD activity. I have left upto 20 mins to see if it will resume - NO LUCK. The problem is the same for Win98 and 95. Anyone any ideas ??

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by fenaikh

Hi
1- Boot with a clean Boot disk and check for virus.
2- Check for hard disk error (scandisk) first
then format the hard disk (pls full format)
3-Make a direcotry say name it Install then
a sub directory sya win98 then copy from win98 cd win98 directory to .
4- copy needed hardwar driver to install\drivername.
5- This will save you a lot of trouble specially if yoy have any DVD drive problem
and in the future if you put install in a diffrent partion win you format again or you reinstall or reinstall hardware driver or install new hardware driver.
Need any more info pls smg to me.

Good luck

Mohamed

by richard_barsby

Hi this may be the problem try swapping out the memory weve had this problem even when the machine was running perfectly prior to the reinstall.

Hope this helps

Rich

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