You were having problems with the drive in Windows as there was apparently
some Windows glitch. However, in that you are installing to a clean drive
from DOS, the problem is irrelevant:-)

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"niteowl" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:47:04 -0500, "Ron Badour"
wrote:

Why don't you fdisk and format the drive and then install W98? If you
are
just making sure the floppy drive will work, boot with a W98 start up
disk
in the system to ensure the drive works in DOS mode.
The floppy drive will need to be set as the first boot device in the
BIOS.

well duh,

ok, I did that and it worked just fine.. so what could have been the
problem?

I just finished fdisking and am in the process of formatting the drive
now...

thanks for your help.

niteowl