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  1. January 5th, 2002, 04:18 PM #1
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    i have just finished fdisking and formating a computer with a win 98 system disk i made with another one of my computers. now i am trying to install win 98, but when i start up the computer with the system disk it doesn't give me the option to install win 98. what should i do?
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  2. January 5th, 2002, 05:02 PM #2
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    [quote]Originally posted by moonduck22:
    <strong>i have just finished fdisking and formating a computer with a win 98 system disk i made with another one of my computers. now i am trying to install win 98, but when i start up the computer with the system disk it doesn't give me the option to install win 98. what should i do?</strong><hr></blockquote>

    Does it leave you at the A:\ prompt?
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  3. January 5th, 2002, 05:15 PM #3
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    You need to change your drive to the CD ROM and then type setup.
    Like:
    d: [Enter]
    setup [Enter]
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    [quote]Originally posted by CornMaster:
    <strong>You need to change your drive to the CD ROM and then type setup.
    Like:
    d: [Enter]
    setup [Enter]</strong><hr></blockquote>


    your bootdisk will undoubtably create D: as a virtual drive so you may also want to try:
    E: [Enter]
    setup.exe [enter]
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  5. January 6th, 2002, 05:01 PM #5
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    yes it does give me the a:\ prompt. i still don't understand how to change my drive to the cd rom. what do i have to do specifically?
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  6. January 6th, 2002, 05:16 PM #6
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    please ignore that last post. i figured out what you were talking about and it worked perfectly. thanks for your help!
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