At 08:38 μμ 1/11/2001 +0000, you wrote: >Norman Dunbar wrote: > > > > Bill, > > > > when (!) it happens again, try finding and deleting either win.bat or > > win.com. I think, if I remember correctly, the installer looks for these > > files and barfs because it thinks it has an OS already and the type of > > install disc is for a new pc. Alternatively, delete the windows directory > > (from a DOS session) and reboot with the CD in the drive. > > > >Thanks Norman, Joe Miller told me something like that ( .bat files I >think) >I don't have a CD driver on disk ( that I can find ) so DOS don't know I >have a CD, the windows start up I made would not work for some reason, I >think the trouble had to do with the hard disk, I had to swap it into >the D drive position to get it to format. >All this because Windows on the hard drive would not install MS works. > >I think I'm stuck with Win98, just got tired of giving Bill £80 each >year > >all the best - Bill
You do NOT need CD drivers. You set your PCs bios to boot from CDROM and the W98 CD is bootable (provided that's not a crap copy.... y'know what I mean ;-) Phoebus
