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by mslaffsalot 1 view

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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 run setup from cd, I get the same error.

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

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by netdrake

Have you made sure that everything is attached correctly? Did you open the case at all? Sometimes it's the simple things that just kick you in the behind.

Hope it was as simple as that, I'll think somemore on it.

by paul.aaron

Have you tried a 98 startup disk or another program such as ghost?? Your computer may not be able to recognise the cd rom without any 3rd party drivers installed. This is where the boot disks are handy!!
Also, in fdisk, did you set the primary dos partition as active?? If not, try it!!

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