Can't install Win98SE or above

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System:

P4 1.6GHz Intel
Intel D845WN Motherboard
256M RAM
Radeon 7000 64M TVO
Sony CD-RW
Segate 40G HD

System originally ran Win98SE. Guy who had it before me tried to
upgrade to Win XP when problems started. He said that when the machine
went to reboot during the upgrade, it would go no more. kept reporting
errors with the setup. He took it in to "Geeks To The Rescue" who
ended up putting in a new Motherboard. After that they got it to run
and u/g'ed the OS to XP. It ran fine for about 4 weeks or so, then
started rebooting itself, never fully loading into XP.

I've reformatted the HD to FAT32 and tried to load Win98 SE, but the
setup routine cannot load the installation files, let alone go any
further. Keeps reporting that "SUWIN has caused an error." Even tried
loading DOS 6.2, then u'g'ing to win98SE and keep getting the same
error (DOS 6.2 runs fine).

I've disconnected everything except the FD and HD, taken out the video
card and used an old Promise PCI card, swapped RAM sticks and power
supplies with ones I know that work fine in other systems swapped
HD's. I've updated the BIOS and disabled everything except what's
absolutly need, yet nothing I do will let load anything newer than the
old DOS OS.

Does anyone have any ideas, as I'm fresh out.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

 

[Grinder]

System:

P4 1.6GHz Intel
Intel D845WN Motherboard
256M RAM
Radeon 7000 64M TVO
Sony CD-RW
Segate 40G HD

System originally ran Win98SE. Guy who had it before me tried to
upgrade to Win XP when problems started. He said that when the machine
went to reboot during the upgrade, it would go no more. kept reporting
errors with the setup. He took it in to "Geeks To The Rescue" who
ended up putting in a new Motherboard. After that they got it to run
and u/g'ed the OS to XP. It ran fine for about 4 weeks or so, then
started rebooting itself, never fully loading into XP.

I've reformatted the HD to FAT32 and tried to load Win98 SE, but the
setup routine cannot load the installation files, let alone go any
further. Keeps reporting that "SUWIN has caused an error." Even tried
loading DOS 6.2, then u'g'ing to win98SE and keep getting the same
error (DOS 6.2 runs fine).

I've disconnected everything except the FD and HD, taken out the video
card and used an old Promise PCI card, swapped RAM sticks and power
supplies with ones I know that work fine in other systems swapped
HD's. I've updated the BIOS and disabled everything except what's
absolutly need, yet nothing I do will let load anything newer than the
old DOS OS.

Does anyone have any ideas, as I'm fresh out.

*I've* never seen that before, but here is a long thread that discussed
similar problems:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winme/t1032422717

 

[Shep©]

System:

P4 1.6GHz Intel
Intel D845WN Motherboard
256M RAM
Radeon 7000 64M TVO
Sony CD-RW
Segate 40G HD

System originally ran Win98SE. Guy who had it before me tried to
upgrade to Win XP when problems started. He said that when the machine
went to reboot during the upgrade, it would go no more. kept reporting
errors with the setup. He took it in to "Geeks To The Rescue" who
ended up putting in a new Motherboard. After that they got it to run
and u/g'ed the OS to XP. It ran fine for about 4 weeks or so, then
started rebooting itself, never fully loading into XP.

I've reformatted the HD to FAT32 and tried to load Win98 SE, but the
setup routine cannot load the installation files, let alone go any
further. Keeps reporting that "SUWIN has caused an error." Even tried
loading DOS 6.2, then u'g'ing to win98SE and keep getting the same
error (DOS 6.2 runs fine).

I've disconnected everything except the FD and HD, taken out the video
card and used an old Promise PCI card, swapped RAM sticks and power
supplies with ones I know that work fine in other systems swapped
HD's. I've updated the BIOS and disabled everything except what's
absolutly need, yet nothing I do will let load anything newer than the
old DOS OS.

Does anyone have any ideas, as I'm fresh out.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Download and burn this .iso to a CDR,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/bootd.zip
It's a win98/ME bootable CDrom disk which also contains Aefdisk.exe

Set BIOS of system to boot from the Cdrom drive 1st.
Load Cd and boot.
At the A prompt type
aefdisk.exe \delall
and press enter.

Shutdown and switch off.
Re-boot to Cdrom disk and remake partition/s as per,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/hard.html
and say,"Yes" when prompted to enable,"Large Disk Support"(FAT32).
Shutdown/Switch off.
Re-boot to Cdrom disk and re-format.
Shutdown and switch off.
Re-boot and re-install windows.
The above CDr disk also gives CDrom support in dos so you can use your
Win98 CD along with the bootable CDR disk.
Then clean up the new install as,"NO" install is clean as per,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/house.html
HTH



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Thanks for your suggestion, but I've already used similar utilities to
perform what you suggest. In fact, I run a DoD wipe on the HD, then
using a boot CD or Floopy (depending on the system's capabilities) I
FDISK every HD I install Win9x on (I don't mess w/ME as it's too buggy
for my likes. I can't count the number of people I have talked into
going back to Win98SE who are much happier than they were trying to
use ME) -- deleting any old partitions, creating new partitions,
rebooting then formating w/the /u and /s switched, making a directroy
(usually named Win98) and copying the Win98SE install files over to
the HD. I then remove the boot CD or Floopy and reboot to the HD and
run the install direct from the HD.

Again, thanks.

 

[kony]

Thanks for your suggestion, but I've already used similar utilities to
perform what you suggest. In fact, I run a DoD wipe on the HD, then
using a boot CD or Floopy (depending on the system's capabilities) I
FDISK every HD I install Win9x on (I don't mess w/ME as it's too buggy
for my likes. I can't count the number of people I have talked into
going back to Win98SE who are much happier than they were trying to
use ME) -- deleting any old partitions, creating new partitions,
rebooting then formating w/the /u and /s switched, making a directroy
(usually named Win98) and copying the Win98SE install files over to
the HD. I then remove the boot CD or Floopy and reboot to the HD and
run the install direct from the HD.

Again, thanks.

If all else fails, install Win98se on another computer and
move the hard drive to the problem system... unlike
NT/2K/XP, win98se can be moved from one system to another
with zero problems. Well, often 2k/xp can too, but with
98se it's easier. Google for more/other guidese if you need
one,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=win98se+delete+enum+key