Guest cjkulow Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 Hi All! Have formatted my hd, have startup boot disk, have Dell Reinstallation CD, have product key, and after I startup with boot floppy, choose "with CD ROM support," I see that the CD ROM drive is read. Have Reinstall CD that came with my computer in CD drive, but when I'm at the e:\ prompt and type "setup" I get message "Bad command, or file not found." I looked at the CD contents at a different computer and cannot find a setup.exe file, or similar. What am I missing? I've read several instructions on reinstalling WIN98 and always get stuck at the same point when I am supposed to type "setup". Thanks for any help! I am not DOS savvy - perhaps that's the problem. ck
Guest Bill Watt Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 Re: How to reinstall Win98 from Resource CD On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:16:18 -0700, cjkulow <cjkulow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Hi All! Have formatted my hd, have startup boot disk, have Dell >Reinstallation CD, have product key, and after I startup with boot floppy, >choose "with CD ROM support," I see that the CD ROM drive is read. Have >Reinstall CD that came with my computer in CD drive, but when I'm at the e:\ >prompt and type "setup" I get message "Bad command, or file not found." I >looked at the CD contents at a different computer and cannot find a setup.exe >file, or similar. >What am I missing? I've read several instructions on reinstalling WIN98 and >always get stuck at the same point when I am supposed to type "setup". >Thanks for any help! I am not DOS savvy - perhaps that's the problem. ck The Startup diskette may change the CD drive letter to one more than normal. ie; D: to E:. That's because it creates a Ram drive that uses a drive letter. Diskettes made from http://www.bootdisk.com may change the drive letter to R:. Otherwise look on the CD for an install,exe or an *.inf file. If there is an *.inf file right click it and select "install". Regards, Bill Watt Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
Guest Ben Myers Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 Re: How to reinstall Win98 from Resource CD "cjkulow" <cjkulow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:54F74CFC-E5A9-48A4-B345-629E8C7B4E6D@microsoft.com... > Hi All! Have formatted my hd, have startup boot disk, have Dell > Reinstallation CD, have product key, and after I startup with boot floppy, > choose "with CD ROM support," I see that the CD ROM drive is read. Have > Reinstall CD that came with my computer in CD drive, but when I'm at the e:\ > prompt and type "setup" I get message "Bad command, or file not found." I > looked at the CD contents at a different computer and cannot find a setup.exe > file, or similar. > What am I missing? I've read several instructions on reinstalling WIN98 and > always get stuck at the same point when I am supposed to type "setup". > Thanks for any help! I am not DOS savvy - perhaps that's the problem. ck See http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&l=en&s=gen&dn=1034500 Ben
Guest dadiOH Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 Re: How to reinstall Win98 from Resource CD cjkulow wrote: > Hi All! Have formatted my hd, have startup boot disk, have Dell > Reinstallation CD, Tried booting from the CD? -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
Guest Don Phillipson Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 Re: How to reinstall Win98 from Resource CD "cjkulow" <cjkulow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:54F74CFC-E5A9-48A4-B345-629E8C7B4E6D@microsoft.com... > Hi All! Have formatted my hd, have startup boot disk, have Dell > Reinstallation CD, have product key, and after I startup with boot floppy, > choose "with CD ROM support," I see that the CD ROM drive is read. Have > Reinstall CD that came with my computer in CD drive, but when I'm at the e:\ > prompt and type "setup" I get message "Bad command, or file not found." I > looked at the CD contents at a different computer and cannot find a setup.exe > file, or similar. What am I missing? 1. We must use DOS conventions when installing from a DOS prompt and using a standard MS Win98 installation CD. To verify that we are actually logged to the CD drive, we can do DIR first, to read the (root) directory of the CD. 2. Standard MS Win98 CDs have SETUP.EXE both in the root directory and in \Win98. The Dell web site may tell you whether Dell Reinstallation CDs are the same or different. The DIR command may help too. If Dell has any BATch files on the CD we can view them, which may help. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
Guest Ron Badour Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 Re: How to reinstall Win98 from Resource CD Watch your monitor when you are booting with the startup floppy disk--it will tell you what letter is assigned to the CDRom drive. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "cjkulow" <cjkulow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:54F74CFC-E5A9-48A4-B345-629E8C7B4E6D@microsoft.com... > Hi All! Have formatted my hd, have startup boot disk, have Dell > Reinstallation CD, have product key, and after I startup with boot floppy, > choose "with CD ROM support," I see that the CD ROM drive is read. Have > Reinstall CD that came with my computer in CD drive, but when I'm at the > e:\ > prompt and type "setup" I get message "Bad command, or file not found." I > looked at the CD contents at a different computer and cannot find a > setup.exe > file, or similar. > What am I missing? I've read several instructions on reinstalling WIN98 > and > always get stuck at the same point when I am supposed to type "setup". > Thanks for any help! I am not DOS savvy - perhaps that's the problem. ck
Guest cjkulow Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: How to reinstall Win98 from Resource CD Ben - thank you so much for the link to the article!!!! I figured out how to boot to the CD and then I followed the article's instructions!!!! much obliged for all of you who help others like me... carola "Ben Myers" wrote: > "cjkulow" <cjkulow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:54F74CFC-E5A9-48A4-B345-629E8C7B4E6D@microsoft.com... > > Hi All! Have formatted my hd, have startup boot disk, have Dell > > Reinstallation CD, have product key, and after I startup with boot floppy, > > choose "with CD ROM support," I see that the CD ROM drive is read. Have > > Reinstall CD that came with my computer in CD drive, but when I'm at the e:\ > > prompt and type "setup" I get message "Bad command, or file not found." I > > looked at the CD contents at a different computer and cannot find a setup.exe > > file, or similar. > > What am I missing? I've read several instructions on reinstalling WIN98 and > > always get stuck at the same point when I am supposed to type "setup". > > Thanks for any help! I am not DOS savvy - perhaps that's the problem. ck > > See > http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&l=en&s=gen&dn=1034500 > > Ben >
Guest cjkulow Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: How to reinstall Win98 from Resource CD Hey! Booting to the CD was the magical wand!!! Someone else gave me the link to a support article through which I figured out how to access the BIOS setting. THANKS!!!! "dadiOH" wrote: > cjkulow wrote: > > Hi All! Have formatted my hd, have startup boot disk, have Dell > > Reinstallation CD, > > Tried booting from the CD? > > > -- > > dadiOH > ____________________________ > > dadiOH's dandies v3.06... > ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from > LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. > Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico > > > >
Guest cjkulow Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 RE: How to reinstall Win98 from Resource CD THANK YOU ALL !!! THANKS TO YOU I ACCESSED THE BIOS AND BOOTED TO THE CD DRIVE. Thanks to all of you who spend time on their computers to help others!! carola "cjkulow" wrote: > Hi All! Have formatted my hd, have startup boot disk, have Dell > Reinstallation CD, have product key, and after I startup with boot floppy, > choose "with CD ROM support," I see that the CD ROM drive is read. Have > Reinstall CD that came with my computer in CD drive, but when I'm at the e:\ > prompt and type "setup" I get message "Bad command, or file not found." I > looked at the CD contents at a different computer and cannot find a setup.exe > file, or similar. > What am I missing? I've read several instructions on reinstalling WIN98 and > always get stuck at the same point when I am supposed to type "setup". > Thanks for any help! I am not DOS savvy - perhaps that's the problem. ck
Guest Buffalo Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: How to reinstall Win98 from Resource CD cjkulow wrote: > THANK YOU ALL !!! THANKS TO YOU I ACCESSED THE BIOS AND BOOTED TO > THE CD DRIVE. Thanks to all of you who spend time on their computers > to help others!! carola Glad it worked. After you get it set up, you'll probably want it to either boot off the HDD or a Floppy Drive first.
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