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by jkravitz

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I have attempted to install win 98 on a P 11 366 new hhd (maxtor 30 gig). The install craps out on the cab files Please help? Old hard drive has completely crashed.

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by kblandford

Get a win 98 sec edition start up disk. Boot to a C prompt. Type format c: and say yes.

Reboot to c: prompt from start disk

From there do this c:\fdisk /mbr
Then fdisk and delete the primary dos partition. Then recreate the primary Dos partition.

Reboot with the startup disk with CDRom support.
Create a directory C:\MD WIN98

Then type copy d:\win98\*.* c:\win98
Let the copying complete. Go to the c:\win98 directory and type setup
That should do it.

by skutts

You can alway try copying the cabs locally (copy the contents of the CD to C:\W95SETUP for example), and running the SETUP.EXE from there. You say it 'craps out' on the CABS - possibly damaged CD perhaps?

by ronfife

Everytime I've seen the setup program hang-up, it's turned out to be bad memory.

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