How to reinstall Win98 from Resource CD

[Guest cjkulow]

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]

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]

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]

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?

 

 

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[Guest Don Phillipson]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.