HELP ME WITH WINDOWS 98 |
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 Jul 28 2004, 12:48 PM
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 Cb's Emotional Writer  Group: Member Posts: 166 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 33,300  |
hey wuts up. i normaly instal windows just fine, anyways, this church guy brung me his computer, cuz someone just gave it to him, its an old computer, he doesnt even know what it has, anyways i turned it on and i think it has a version of windows nt, either way, i still put the windows 98 starup disk, on the comp, and i chose start with cd rom support, but then eventually it says that it cant, cuz maybe the harddrive is running on some partition software, or that I have to make it fat32 or something, etc, like how do i go about just instaling windows 98 on it?
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Jul 29 2004, 11:16 AM
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 Word. Group: Member Posts: 3,004 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 34,673 |
98???? just go and install WINDOWS XP! its only like 4 yrs old...
or go and open the case up and take out of the cd drives and other valuables in there than u can sell them other pieces in there and make urself a new one. I made mine and it's pimp... |
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Jul 29 2004, 11:18 AM
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Cb's Emotional Writer Group: Member Posts: 166 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 33,300 |
its not my computer :(
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Jul 29 2004, 11:19 AM
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Word. Group: Member Posts: 3,004 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 34,673 |
well tell him that u can upgrade for a couple $200 more and it would be like a brand new HP computer or w/e... probaly way better!
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Jul 30 2004, 04:08 AM
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 Junior Member Group: Member Posts: 457 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 26,537 |
since the computer has windows NT, the drive probably has an NFTS partition. windows 98 can't be installed on an NFTS partition. you'll have to repartition the drive to FAT32 using the appropriate software and then you can install windows 98.
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Jul 30 2004, 07:32 AM
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 bang bang! my baby shot me down! Group: Member Posts: 754 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 23,848 |
tell him to get a mac it will end up being cheaper one way or the other
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Jul 30 2004, 08:26 AM
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Word. Group: Member Posts: 3,004 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 34,673 |
QUOTE(ryan_73 @ Jul 30 2004, 4:08 AM) since the computer has windows NT, the drive probably has an NFTS partition. windows 98 can't be installed on an NFTS partition. you'll have to repartition the drive to FAT32 using the appropriate software and then you can install windows 98. what you do is FORMAT the HD and then install windows all over again.. |
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Jul 30 2004, 03:07 PM
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 Ne0 Is The One Group: Member Posts: 1,348 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 24,349 |
try www.techguy.org , maybe they can help you.
Just register and post on the forum. The guys their know tons of stuff that may help u with your situation. |
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Jul 30 2004, 04:44 PM
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 [[one piece :D Group: Member Posts: 2,722 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 795 |
make another boot disk. the boot disk might be corrupted.
www.bootdisk.com - get one from here. after you got one, boot it again, and reinstall it. umm.. you might linke smartdrv too, so download it while you are doing the boot disk. for a fresh installation of win98. you can format the harddisk and reinstall it. 
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