Try running setup with the "/c" and "/im" switches. For example, if you
copied the setup files to the "c:\win98" folder, click "Start", "Run", =
type
"c:\win98\setup /c /im" into the "Open" box and click "OK".

Ben

"Jerry C." wrote in message =
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Mikhail, all three come back as having 8192 bytes per allocation unit.
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Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:=20
Jerry,
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If the drive was partitioned using WD utilities, and all the drives
are
10GB, and scandisk and defrag work -- actually, as Ron said, the
article
q229154 may be inapplicable. But (the symptoms say about that
nevertheless) just in case run (Start -- Run...) Command.com, or =
Start
-- Programs -- MS DOS, in the opened DOS window type, followed by
Enter
key:
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chkdsk c:
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and see what it says about the clusters (allocation units) size: for
10-GB drives it is 8192 bytes by default.
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Then run
chkdsk d:
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and finally --
chkdsk e:
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and see the results as well.
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On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:18:59 +0100, Jerry C.
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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?
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Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:-
Jerry,
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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.
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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.
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For information on freeing conventional memory see SETUP.TXT on =
setup
disk or windows 98 cd."
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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?
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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.
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Jerry C.