I am not sure the 229154 article pertains to your problem. Have you read
about the error message that you are receiving in the setup.txt file that is
on the W98 CD and followed the scandisk directions it gives?

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"Jerry C." wrote in message
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Mikhail, its a 30G HD split into three 10G partitions. But if i recall
correctly I didn't use any third party software to partition, just what
came with the Western Digital HD when i put it in. And scandisk and
defrag work (albeit slowly) in normal windows mode. This is the first
time i've run into this error. How could i check the cluster size?

Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:
Jerry,

I'm sure,
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q229154
is your case.

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On Sat, 14 May 2005 21:15:11 +0100, Jerry C.
wrote:
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I copied the files to a folder on c:. but when i ran setup....same
msg.
,to be exact:
"Setup does not have enough conventional memory to check your
computers
hard disks. You need to free some conventional memory before
continuing.

For information on freeing conventional memory see SETUP.TXT on setup
disk or windows 98 cd."

What now? I know I'm nearing scrapping this whole thing but there has
got to be a way to get this disk to work. It's a legit disk...and i
already have 98....this should be easy right? simple update
installation? BTW...as you suggested i was in safe mode, so with only
essentials running, how could i run on any less memory?

Ben Myers Wrote:-
If you have plenty of disk space, copy the contents of the upgrade
CD to the hard drive, then restart the computer from the floppy
using "...without CD-ROM support" and type "win /d:m". Then run
setup again.

Ben--
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Jerry C.