Hanging durning installation

Due to problems, I had to reformat Hard Drive.
after booting from floppy with cd spupport, I go to cd and
and enter setup.exe, computer starts as expected checks
hdd then begans to copy files needed for setup. at this
point it hangs and goes no farther. I have tested hdd it
is ok disk are ok. I have tried all the solutions
offered by microsoft no help. hope someone out there
can. Thanks Drive has been fdisk, format, tested by
manufactures test util. still not working.

Have you disabled ant-virus protection (boot sector protection) in BIOS
setup?
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Wayne" wrote in message
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Due to problems, I had to reformat Hard Drive.
after booting from floppy with cd spupport, I go to cd and
and enter setup.exe, computer starts as expected checks
hdd then begans to copy files needed for setup. at this
point it hangs and goes no farther. I have tested hdd it
is ok disk are ok. I have tried all the solutions
offered by microsoft no help. hope someone out there
can. Thanks Drive has been fdisk, format, tested by
manufactures test util. still not working.

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 16:19:21 -0700, "Wayne"
wrote:

Due to problems, I had to reformat Hard Drive.
after booting from floppy with cd spupport, I go to cd and
and enter setup.exe, computer starts as expected checks
hdd then begans to copy files needed for setup. at this
point it hangs and goes no farther. I have tested hdd it
is ok disk are ok. I have tried all the solutions
offered by microsoft no help. hope someone out there
can. Thanks Drive has been fdisk, format, tested by
manufactures test util. still not working.

Wayne,

Jeff's suggestion should work but if you still have the problem try
this:

A good way is to copy the Win98 folder on the CD to your HD
and then run Setup from there from Dos. Boot with the Startup disk
and press enter after each of these commands:
C: ( changes from A:\ to C:\)
MD \Win98 (makes the folder on C
Copy X:\win98 C:\win98 ( Change X to the drive letter of your
CDrom, usually one more than normal)
C:\win98\setup.exe (starts the install)

If Setup has already created the Windows folder then it may try to
install into a Windows.000 folder or a similar one. Put the cursor
in the little box and change it to C:\windows.

After the install anytime Windows needs something from the CD it
will go to the Win98 folder instead. Very handy and fast.

Sometimes this method avoids problems.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/

-----Original Message-----
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 16:19:21 -0700, "Wayne"
wrote:

Due to problems, I had to reformat Hard Drive.
after booting from floppy with cd spupport, I go to cd
and
and enter setup.exe, computer starts as expected checks
hdd then begans to copy files needed for setup. at this
point it hangs and goes no farther. I have tested hdd
it
is ok disk are ok. I have tried all the solutions
offered by microsoft no help. hope someone out there
can. Thanks Drive has been fdisk, format, tested by
manufactures test util. still not working.

Wayne,

Jeff's suggestion should work but if you still have the
problem try
this:

A good way is to copy the Win98 folder on the CD to your
HD
and then run Setup from there from Dos. Boot with the
Startup disk
and press enter after each of these commands:
C: ( changes from A:\ to C:\)
MD \Win98 (makes the folder on C
Copy X:\win98 C:\win98 ( Change X to the drive letter
of your
CDrom, usually one more than normal)
C:\win98\setup.exe (starts the install)

If Setup has already created the Windows folder then it
may try to
install into a Windows.000 folder or a similar one. Put
the cursor
in the little box and change it to C:\windows.

After the install anytime Windows needs something from
the CD it
will go to the Win98 folder instead. Very handy and fast.

Sometimes this method avoids problems.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information
http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/

.THANKS Bill and Jeff but I have already checked the
bios virus and it was disabled, I have already tried the
coping to c: and attempting an install here is the
results from the screen
Please wait while setup initializes
Scanning system registry
Copying files needed for Windows Setup
(Hangs right here)

I am now suspicious of the mother board
I can boot from a floppy copy anything from a floppy or
cd so to my thinking both are ok I changed processors and
still no difference have changed the hard drive and
still no better.

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:17:37 -0700, "Wayne"
wrote:


.THANKS Bill and Jeff but I have already checked the
bios virus and it was disabled, I have already tried the
coping to c: and attempting an install here is the
results from the screen
Please wait while setup initializes
Scanning system registry
Copying files needed for Windows Setup
(Hangs right here)

I am now suspicious of the mother board
I can boot from a floppy copy anything from a floppy or
cd so to my thinking both are ok I changed processors and
still no difference have changed the hard drive and
still no better.

Wayne,

Here is part of the Win98 Setup process, in order:
________________quote____________________
After you select a Setup option, you are prompted for the locale for
the Internet channels. You are then prompted to create a Windows 98
Startup disk. After you create a Windows 98 startup disk, Setup
proceeds to the file copy phase.

File Copy Phase
During this phase, Windows 98 Setup copies the files needed to
complete Setup. This involves copying files from the Windows 98
CD-ROM or shared network drive to your local hard disk.

Enumeration/Detection Phase
During this phase, Windows 98 Setup determines what hardware
components are installed in your computer. This phase requires you
to restart your computer either once or twice, depending on the type
of hardware in your computer. This Setup phase can be identified by
the Setting Up Hardware screen.
____________________end quote______________________

During the File Copy Phase Setup extracts the needed files from the
*.CAB files. Here it uses Dos for the extraction process and it
needs +/- 500k of conventional memory. The Win98 startup diskette
provides that. I would create another one from Add/Remove Programs
on another Win98 machine then boot with it *without* CDrom support.

Or, run the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the Win98 CD in the
Tools/Mtsutil/Fat32ebd folder from any Windows machine. This startup
diskette does not create a Ram drive which is not needed for the
install. During the install take the option to create a boot
diskette even though you have one. This puts extra EBD files on the
HDD.

In your Windows\Command folder copy the Mem.exe file to the startup
diskette. After booting with it enter Mem /c from the A:\ prompt.
You will see the amount of conventional memory available.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/

boy, im just gettin switch appy today, but it what you
guys need,
when you type in setup.exe, add this at the end, /is
so it would appear liek this X:\setup.exe/is
good luck, bill
-----Original Message-----
Due to problems, I had to reformat Hard Drive.
after booting from floppy with cd spupport, I go to cd
and
and enter setup.exe, computer starts as expected checks
hdd then begans to copy files needed for setup. at this
point it hangs and goes no farther. I have tested hdd
it
is ok disk are ok. I have tried all the solutions
offered by microsoft no help. hope someone out there
can. Thanks Drive has been fdisk, format, tested by
manufactures test util. still not working.
.

AFAIK the switch ( /is ) bypasses Scandisk during Setup, that's
all. Is there more to it than that?

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/
_________________________________________________


On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:21:05 -0700,
wrote:

boy, im just gettin switch appy today, but it what you
guys need,
when you type in setup.exe, add this at the end, /is
so it would appear liek this X:\setup.exe/is
good luck, bill

-----Original Message-----
Due to problems, I had to reformat Hard Drive.
after booting from floppy with cd spupport, I go to cd
and
and enter setup.exe, computer starts as expected checks
hdd then begans to copy files needed for setup. at this
point it hangs and goes no farther. I have tested hdd
it
is ok disk are ok. I have tried all the solutions
offered by microsoft no help. hope someone out there
can. Thanks Drive has been fdisk, format, tested by
manufactures test util. still not working.
.