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by mslaffsalot

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I am working on a customers Gateway PC. I had to run gwscan, per gateway direction to be able to load win98. Here are the steps I have taken:

1. ran Gateway's gwscan.exe
2. fdisk
3. format
4.when I try to run setup.exe, I get this error msg.:
CDR101:Not ready reading drive E
Abort, Retry, Fail? (I hit f)
Fail on INT 24 - Win98

Even When I try to boot from CD, I get the same error.

Help! What do I do now? I would appreciate any tips, my customer wants their computer on Sat.
Thank You,
Tracey

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by matrix007

SOmetimes that happens in Dos when using generic drivers for the cdrom. Is the copy a original? Usually have problems with copies cause the cdrom won't read it. Try cleaning the cd, and go in Bios-setup and make sure it is booting from cdrom and save. Keep trying it. I know what your talking about.Turn off the computer and check the cables on the cdrom. They say using IDE, have cdrom on secondary Mast. try on primary slave. Jeff

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