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by electronics2667

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I bought a computer without a hard drive.I installed the hard drive works fine. I installed windows 98 & when i restart the computer a message comes up saying i need the windows 98 disk. Did i forget to install something if so what do i need to do now. If i don't need to do anything else how do i get rid of the message.

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by thechas

Until windows has installed all of your hardware devices, it will ask for the CD to install required files for that device.

Sometimes, the CD is not accessable from Windows until you install the manufactures drivers for the chipset on the motherboard.

I copy the CD onto a seperate partition on the hard drive so that I never need to worry about needing the CD when installing hardware or network protocals.

When I install drivers, I follow this sequence;
Chipset drivers
DirectX
Video card driver
Other plug in card drivers
External device drivers

Chas

by gigelul

Complet install of the Win98 require three restarts(I think). If you install booting from CD-ROM (boot sequence in BIOS: CD-ROM, C,...) after first restart you must enter in BIOS and change the boot sequence to C,A,.. and the setup will finish the install.

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