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installing win98 onto NetVectra

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by kedavis1 Dec 9, 2001 last reply Dec 23, 2001

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I am trying to install windows 98 onto a Net Vectra machine
it is a pentium 133 with 24 meg ram
i am getting a windows protection error on final reboot of the install
windows 95 install ok
any ideas??
Thanks
Ken Davis

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by republic_resource Dec 21, 2001

If it is not an upgrade from Windows 95; then fdisk to FAT-32 and reformat; refer to http://www.microsoft.com/technet article Q182751; if the HDD has data, approximately 195 MB of free HDD is needed, up to 295 MB of free HDD space.
(Good Luck)

by kedavis1 Dec 23, 2001

why reformat when I just formatted to fat 32 on the install

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