reinstalling windows 98

EBay, or any number of online vendors like Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/se...977521-9935823.

If you live in or near a large population center, you might find local shops
that still have a few copies.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"William" wrote in message
...
Thanks guys. I do appreciate all of your suggestions. I think I have found
my
problem. I beleive my Windows 98 CD is bad. Could someone tell me where I
can
purchase a new one?

"Jon_Hildrum" wrote:

Thanks you are correct Ron. Been awhile since I have used Dos.

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Jon Hildrum
DTS MVP

www.hildrum.com
"Ron Badour" wrote in message
...
That is a bad command Jon. To change partitions, one types: E: (or
whatever) and hits enter. Once in the partition, one changes
directories by typing: CD Windows (or whatever) and hitting enter.
Been
a while since you loaded 98, right :-)

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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"Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message
...
Try the following:
at the A: prompt type CD E:

Then use explorer and see what is on the E:drive
If you see a folder called Win98 then at the E: prompt type cd\win98

Now at the E:\win98 prompt type setup.

--
Jon Hildrum
DTS MVP

www.hildrum.com
"William" wrote in message
...
Thanks guys,I really appreciate your patience and understanding. This
is
what
I am seeing after I reboot and load the temp drivers, Drive E=Driver
MSCDOO1
unit 0. Now under this I am still seeing drive A:\ and this is where
I
am
changing the letter to E. This is why I have been using E as my CD
ROM
letter. I tried to use F as the drive letter as you suggested and got
the
message Invalid drive specification.

"Mikhail Zhilin" wrote:

William, to add to Jon:

After you boot from the diskette -- you'll see two messages; one of
them says
what is the Ramdrive letter (it is the drive with the diagnostic
tools), and
the other one -- what is CDROM letter.

If the standard Startup Disk (diskette) is using, then CDROM drive
letter is
always one letter higher than Ramdrive letter, and (because of the
same
reason) -- one letter higher than CDROM letter in the working
system.

So probably you use the wrong CDROM letter, and it has to be F: but
not
E:

I assume you see
E:\
prompt, and type yourself only:

setup

in this line, so the whole line you see is "E:\setup".
Then type not E: command at mine step 3, but F: instead.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:02:10 -0700, "William"
wrote:

Yes that is pretty much what I am doing.After I reformat, I reboot
so
I can
load the temp drivers for CD ROM support. When this is done I get
the
drive
letter A:\.I change this to E:\ and after this I have typed in
E:\Setup
and also E:\Win98\setup and also tried E:\CD Win98 also
E:\Setup.exe and I
always get Bad command or file name.

"Mikhail Zhilin" wrote:

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:44:05 -0700, "William"
wrote:

Hello, I too have reformatted my hard drive and I am now trying
to
get my
windows 98 reinstalled. I have tried your suggestions and I am
still getting
the same results. Every time I try to reinstall Windows I get
the
same
message,Bad command or file name.Any help or suggestions will be
appreciated.

William, please, step by step:

What you are doing, and what you are typing (verbatim) while
installation.
Something like:

=====
1. Boot from the diskette.
2. Type:
format C:
3. After format is finished, type:
E:
setup
4. At this moment I get a message "Bad command or file name"
=====

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
======

"Jon_Hildrum" wrote:

The Windows setup disk made during install will do this.

If not you can get a windows setup disk from www.bootdisk.com

Make sure that bios is set to boot from A: (floppy ) first.
You can enter bios by using ctrl -del during the initial boot
process on
most computers. Some uses F1 or F10 keys. Typically there will
be
a note
saying what to do during initial boot to get to bios.

Insert the floppy in drive a: Restart the computer.
At the A: prompt type format C:
This will format the C drive.
Insert the Win98 CD in the CD drive and type at the a: prompt
CD
drive
letter for CD drive) \Win98\setup.

Note: The drive letter for the CD will appear during boot up
process.

WARNING: Make sure you have the Retail full version of win98
or
an OEM
version before doing this. You cannot make a clean install
from
the Retail
upgrade version without a qualifying product (Win 3.1 diskset
or
a win95
CD).
You also need the product code. It can easily be obtained
prior
to
formatting the drive. It cannot be obtained after doing this.

--
Jon Hildrum
DTS MVP

www.hildrum.com
"monkey" wrote in message
...
i wonder if anyone can help me- i have a computer with
windows
98, and i
would like to re-install it (im selling the computer) but i
would like to
wipe all of my information from it, so that its just plain,
'98, with none
of
my files or changes, just as it would have been when i
bought
it.

someone told me i need to format my hard drive to do this-
id
also like to
know how to do that is anyone can explain it to me!

if anyone has any ideas how i could do this i'd be really
grateful, thank
you!