I AM INSTALLING WIN 98 ON A NEW SYSTEM

The problem may be exist that you have bad sectors on the hard drive,try running scandisk from a DOS prompt

Boot computer using startup disk

At command pormpt type Fdisk /mbr (press enter)

Then type scandisk and see if this process will run,if bad sectors are on drive you will be prompted,which you will need to fix directory structures before proceeding with setup

try re-creating the partition. delete the existing partition and create a new primary and set it active. you can do this using fdisk and use is very easy; just follow the menu :)

when you format your hdd after the repartitioning, try format /c/s option.

hope this helps.

Dear friend,
you should try to reformat your HDD again. At the command, type c:\format c:/C(this option tests clusters that are currently marked "bad").And Other way is, you can use third party utilities,e.g.Norton Disk Doctor NDD,DM,Seagate's DM(disk manager)is the best one. you can get some good idea information from their website,. your HDD will be everything fined, you can reinstall your OS easily. still have any problems, you will check other hardware device,e.g. VGA card, Memory..ok friend, try again, any problem, contact to me, Bye!
L.Seng Du.