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Crazy Cooter:
Are you installing off a copy?  A bad copy can do this (I've heard).  Anyways, follow these directions on how to do a "clean install"

http://www.hexff.com/win98_install.php

That way you'll never get the "please insert windows 98 cd" when you change things down the road.  The cd will be copied onto you're hard drive.

Matt, GoC:
Where is it saying this?  Are you setting up windows when it gives you the message or is it already installed?  You may have a bit of dust on your CD, or a corruption on your hard drive.  Don't be a stranger to giving us loads of details.  It's like taking your car to the shop because somethings not right with it.  The more you tell the mechanic, the less he'll rip his hair out trying to figure out the problem...

cdbrown:
Install XP instead like you were going to in the other thread.  I had dual boot 98SE and XP Pro, it didn't take too long before I realised I didn't use 98SE as everything worked in XP - even old games like Doom and really old dos based games.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: RayB on September 14, 2004, 09:54:22 pm ---
This reminds me of my brother who many years ago attempted to remove his sound card with the power on. That's not THAT risky, but as fate would have it, he dropped it on whatever card was below. He fried his MOBO and a couple other cards.

Then there's the time he deleted a whole lot of files because he had shortcuts to them elsewhere and he though that meant he had duplicates of the files. As fate would have it, he emptied the Recycle bin before calling me about his applications no longer working.

There's also the time he formatted his drive without backing up his files, but I forget the specific details of how that happened and why he thought he'd still have his files intact.

 ;D

--- End quote ---
Here's a classic from the early (MS-DOS 2.1 or so) days of DOS -

Floppies (5-1/4, 360K) shipped unformatted so they could be used in PC's or MAC's.  The command to format them was (IMS)

C:\format a: c:

Now if you forgot and typed either

C:\format c: a:

or

C:\format

The computer would respond with

writing sector 1, cluster 1 - etc. until it had erased the entire contents of the C:\ drive.  And it started at the beginning where the FAT was, so you couldn't cancel it and save some of your data.

They didn't add a "This will destroy all data on the C:\ drive, do you want to proceed?" prompt until MUCH later.

RayB:
My guess is you're using a burned copy rather than a legitimate copy of Win98 setup disc, and it's bad.

Check for scratches, dirt. And please, this time, if the CD is covered in dirt, let us know now, not 10 posts later.  ;)

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