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Old June 12th 07, 10:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
***** charles[_2_]
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Default Evil children?

Hi all,

A friend of mine who has a W98FE machine and a little daughter
came to me and said "she just deleted a bunch of files, can you
rebuild it?" I got the key id with jelly bean and copied the cabs
subdirectory to another hd. Then I rebooted/repartitioned/
reformated the main drive into C and D. Then I copied back the
cab directory to a directory on D drive I called WIN98. So far
so good. C drive is clean/empty and is 4G and D is 2.1G and
has the WIN98 directory from the old hard drive before
reconfiguration. I went to the WIN98 directory and typed in
"setup" and it wasn't there. I copied a SETUP.EXE file from
anoher W98FE machine and when I type it in on the computer
it came from I get the appropriate response. I copied the file
to the WIN98 directory on the machine I am trying to
reconfigure and the response I get is "just jumps back to the
command prompt". I thought it might be that the scandisk
program was absent but it is in fact in the WIN98 directory.
What am I missing, why doesn't setup go through its' normal
process?

thanks for any hints,
charles.....



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Old June 12th 07, 11:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
John Dulak[_2_]
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Default Evil children?

***** charles wrote:
Hi all,

A friend of mine who has a W98FE machine and a little daughter
came to me and said "she just deleted a bunch of files, can you
rebuild it?" I got the key id with jelly bean and copied the cabs
subdirectory to another hd. Then I rebooted/repartitioned/
reformated the main drive into C and D. Then I copied back the
cab directory to a directory on D drive I called WIN98. So far
so good. C drive is clean/empty and is 4G and D is 2.1G and
has the WIN98 directory from the old hard drive before
reconfiguration. I went to the WIN98 directory and typed in
"setup" and it wasn't there. I copied a SETUP.EXE file from
anoher W98FE machine and when I type it in on the computer
it came from I get the appropriate response. I copied the file
to the WIN98 directory on the machine I am trying to
reconfigure and the response I get is "just jumps back to the
command prompt". I thought it might be that the scandisk
program was absent but it is in fact in the WIN98 directory.
What am I missing, why doesn't setup go through its' normal
process?

thanks for any hints,
charles.....




Charles:

You need more than just the .cab files and setup.exe there are some
other files (.exe, .dll, inf, .bin, .sys etc.) that are needed. Are
they in c:\win98?? If so try changing to the win98 directory before
you run setup:

C:\ cd win98 Enter
C:\WIN98 setup Enter

HTH & GL

John

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Old June 12th 07, 11:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Gary S. Terhune[_2_]
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Default Evil children?

Question is, what else is missing from the directory? Compare the two you
have. If setup.exe was missing, other things just as important may also be
missing.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"***** charles" wrote in message
et...
Hi all,

A friend of mine who has a W98FE machine and a little daughter
came to me and said "she just deleted a bunch of files, can you
rebuild it?" I got the key id with jelly bean and copied the cabs
subdirectory to another hd. Then I rebooted/repartitioned/
reformated the main drive into C and D. Then I copied back the
cab directory to a directory on D drive I called WIN98. So far
so good. C drive is clean/empty and is 4G and D is 2.1G and
has the WIN98 directory from the old hard drive before
reconfiguration. I went to the WIN98 directory and typed in
"setup" and it wasn't there. I copied a SETUP.EXE file from
anoher W98FE machine and when I type it in on the computer
it came from I get the appropriate response. I copied the file
to the WIN98 directory on the machine I am trying to
reconfigure and the response I get is "just jumps back to the
command prompt". I thought it might be that the scandisk
program was absent but it is in fact in the WIN98 directory.
What am I missing, why doesn't setup go through its' normal
process?

thanks for any hints,
charles.....





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Old June 13th 07, 04:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
***** charles[_2_]
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Posts: 14
Default Evil children?

"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
...
Question is, what else is missing from the directory? Compare the two you
have. If setup.exe was missing, other things just as important may also be
missing


I may be stuck transfering files over one at a time on floppy since
there is no net connection between them or a cd burner. I did try
to go to the WIN98 subdirectory before executing the command
and it didn't help.

thanks,
charles......

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com


"***** charles" wrote in message
et...
Hi all,

A friend of mine who has a W98FE machine and a little daughter
came to me and said "she just deleted a bunch of files, can you
rebuild it?" I got the key id with jelly bean and copied the cabs
subdirectory to another hd. Then I rebooted/repartitioned/
reformated the main drive into C and D. Then I copied back the
cab directory to a directory on D drive I called WIN98. So far
so good. C drive is clean/empty and is 4G and D is 2.1G and
has the WIN98 directory from the old hard drive before
reconfiguration. I went to the WIN98 directory and typed in
"setup" and it wasn't there. I copied a SETUP.EXE file from
anoher W98FE machine and when I type it in on the computer
it came from I get the appropriate response. I copied the file
to the WIN98 directory on the machine I am trying to
reconfigure and the response I get is "just jumps back to the
command prompt". I thought it might be that the scandisk
program was absent but it is in fact in the WIN98 directory.
What am I missing, why doesn't setup go through its' normal
process?

thanks for any hints,
charles.....







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Old June 13th 07, 11:55 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Ben Myers
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Posts: 356
Default Evil children?

Try creating a new Windows 98 boot floppy.

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Ben

"***** charles" wrote in message et...
Hi all,

A friend of mine who has a W98FE machine and a little daughter
came to me and said "she just deleted a bunch of files, can you
rebuild it?" I got the key id with jelly bean and copied the cabs
subdirectory to another hd. Then I rebooted/repartitioned/
reformated the main drive into C and D. Then I copied back the
cab directory to a directory on D drive I called WIN98. So far
so good. C drive is clean/empty and is 4G and D is 2.1G and
has the WIN98 directory from the old hard drive before
reconfiguration. I went to the WIN98 directory and typed in
"setup" and it wasn't there. I copied a SETUP.EXE file from
anoher W98FE machine and when I type it in on the computer
it came from I get the appropriate response. I copied the file
to the WIN98 directory on the machine I am trying to
reconfigure and the response I get is "just jumps back to the
command prompt". I thought it might be that the scandisk
program was absent but it is in fact in the WIN98 directory.
What am I missing, why doesn't setup go through its' normal
process?

thanks for any hints,
charles.....



  #6  
Old June 15th 07, 04:01 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
***** charles[_2_]
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Posts: 14
Default Evil children?

"Ben Myers" wrote in
message ...

Try creating a new Windows 98 boot floppy.

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Ben

Already had one. Running SETUP.EXE from the C:\WIN98
subdirectory doesn't work unless one has all the correct files.
I finally found a complete one on another computer so I was
able to successfully rebuild the problem child.

By the way, jellybean(keyfinder) only runs on a Windows
machine that has a running GUI, no command line stuff.

later.....

"***** charles" wrote in message
et...
Hi all,

A friend of mine who has a W98FE machine and a little daughter
came to me and said "she just deleted a bunch of files, can you
rebuild it?" I got the key id with jelly bean and copied the cabs
subdirectory to another hd. Then I rebooted/repartitioned/
reformated the main drive into C and D. Then I copied back the
cab directory to a directory on D drive I called WIN98. So far
so good. C drive is clean/empty and is 4G and D is 2.1G and
has the WIN98 directory from the old hard drive before
reconfiguration. I went to the WIN98 directory and typed in
"setup" and it wasn't there. I copied a SETUP.EXE file from
anoher W98FE machine and when I type it in on the computer
it came from I get the appropriate response. I copied the file
to the WIN98 directory on the machine I am trying to
reconfigure and the response I get is "just jumps back to the
command prompt". I thought it might be that the scandisk
program was absent but it is in fact in the WIN98 directory.
What am I missing, why doesn't setup go through its' normal
process?

thanks for any hints,
charles.....





 




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