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Does windows 98se have to be installed from the same volume?
I want to clean off with fdisk and format a master hard drive and
reinstall windows 98se. Can I copy the cab files from the slave and have them do the setup (install to the other volume (master)? And if so what dos command do I use to do it |
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Does windows 98se have to be installed from the same volume?
On 12/17/2010 11:43 AM, DJW wrote:
I want to clean off with fdisk and format a master hard drive and reinstall windows 98se. Can I copy the cab files from the slave and have them do the setup (install to the other volume (master)? And if so what dos command do I use to do it sure if you have the complete setup folder just boot from your floppy and from within your setup folder just type and enter : setup |
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Does windows 98se have to be installed from the same volume?
You can Copy all the Set up CD and Cab to master, Boot the Computer and it
will install from C:master! I do that all the time when I have no CD-Rom on a Computer! "DJW" wrote in message ... I want to clean off with fdisk and format a master hard drive and reinstall windows 98se. Can I copy the cab files from the slave and have them do the setup (install to the other volume (master)? And if so what dos command do I use to do it |
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Does windows 98se have to be installed from the same volume?
On Dec 18, 2:52*am, "MyNews" wrote:
You can Copy all the Set up CD and Cab to master, Boot the Computer and it will install from C:master! I do that all the time when I have no CD-Rom on a Computer! "DJW" wrote in message ... I want to clean off with fdisk and format a master hard drive and reinstall windows 98se. Can I copy the cab files from the slave and have them do the setup (install to the other volume (master)? And if so what dos command do I use to do it no what I want is to copy the installer cd files to the slave hard drive and then install them on a wiped clean master HDD. I thought just the cab files need be copied onto a hard drive to do an install. The computer has two hard drives .I guess I am really asking dose windows 98 always choose the master active primary partition to install or does it install to the hard drive that the installer files are on. |
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Does windows 98se have to be installed from the same volume?
Yes you can copy the installer cd files to the slave HDD,
Boot A: Move to C: or D: in D: Setup click ENTER and it will run and will it ask Were But By Default it C:\WINDOWS And Windows will always call for the slave HDD for the CAB we need, But You can Copy all the Set up CD and Cab to master HDD, installer will put all the CAB on C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS and call it up that we need! By Default it on C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS is a Copy of! "DJW" wrote in message ... On Dec 18, 2:52 am, "MyNews" wrote: You can Copy all the Set up CD and Cab to master, Boot the Computer and it will install from C:master! I do that all the time when I have no CD-Rom on a Computer! "DJW" wrote in message ... I want to clean off with fdisk and format a master hard drive and reinstall windows 98se. Can I copy the cab files from the slave and have them do the setup (install to the other volume (master)? And if so what dos command do I use to do it no what I want is to copy the installer cd files to the slave hard drive and then install them on a wiped clean master HDD. I thought just the cab files need be copied onto a hard drive to do an install. The computer has two hard drives .I guess I am really asking dose windows 98 always choose the master active primary partition to install or does it install to the hard drive that the installer files are on. |
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Does windows 98se have to be installed from the same volume?
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, DJW writes: [] no what I want is to copy the installer cd files to the slave hard drive and then install them on a wiped clean master HDD. I thought just the cab files need be copied onto a hard drive to do an install. The computer has two hard drives .I guess I am really asking dose windows 98 always choose the master active primary partition to install or does it install to the hard drive that the installer files are on. Certainly not the latter. Think about it: when you install from a CD, it doesn't try to install _to_ the CD. As MyNews has reminded me, it does ask, defaulting to C:\Windows (I think with a short timeout), and also the installation will thereafter ask for the files to be put into (in your case) D: if you don't leave them there, whenever it requires them (such as you changing windows options, or needing drivers). If you have space on your new C:, it's worth copying the files (you only need some of them, not the entire CD) to it: for reasons no-one has ever deigned to explain to me, the usually-suggested location is C:\Windows\Options\CABs. (If you do that, the installer, seeing that C:\Windows already exists, will offer to install to C:\Windows.000; override it bck to just Windows, and ignore the warning that it will overwrite - it won't overwrite the .../options/cabs directory.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Veni Vidi Visa [I came, I saw, I did a little shopping] - Mik from S+AS Limited ), 1998 |
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Does windows 98se have to be installed from the same volume?
On Dec 18, 8:27*pm, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , writes: []no what I want is to copy the installer cd files to the slave hard drive and *then install them on a wiped clean master HDD. I thought just the cab files need be copied onto a hard drive to do an install. The computer has two hard drives .I guess I am really asking dose windows 98 always choose the master active primary partition to install or does it install to the hard drive that the installer files are on. Certainly not the latter. Think about it: when you install from a CD, it doesn't try to install _to_ the CD. As MyNews has reminded me, it does ask, defaulting to C:\Windows (I think with a short timeout), and also the installation will thereafter ask for the files to be put into (in your case) D: if you don't leave them there, whenever it requires them (such as you changing windows options, or needing drivers). If you have space on your new C:, it's worth copying the files (you only need some of them, not the entire CD) to it: for reasons no-one has ever deigned to explain to me, the usually-suggested location is C:\Windows\Options\CABs. (If you do that, the installer, seeing that C:\Windows already exists, will offer to install to C:\Windows.000; override it bck to just Windows, and ignore the warning that it will overwrite - it won't overwrite the .../options/cabs directory.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Veni Vidi Visa [I came, I saw, I did a little shopping] - Mik from S+AS Limited ), 1998 I would be pleased to so deign if I may. It's because of the default behavior of .inf files and the installers that run on them, including the Windows Setup.exe machine itself. If they can find a file already expanded in the installation folder they use it instead of looking for any more versions of it any where else but more to the point of one being inside of a cab file. Thus if you run an update and it installed a copy of the fixed file in the c:\windows\options\cabs folder, then whenever you did an over the top reinstalltion of windows the setup engine would use the fixed file to begin with and ignore the original compressed within a cab file. And thusly keeping your Windows supremely updated without falling back into a heap of broken files, tsk, tsk. ALL ms updates with fixed files write a copy of the file to c:\windows \options\cabs folder in addition to installing the file where it works and lives. The first I ran into that was when I set up Windows just like the OP wants to do now with the cabs folder somewhere non- standard. My thinking was that I would be safe from virus attacks because they could not possibly double guess where I put the goodies. After I ran some updates I see that I have a c:\windows\options\cabs folder and it has files in that I did not put there after I specfically deleted the empty folder upon first installation. Today I remain a virgin from any virus attack (with no AV programs either) and have resigned myself to being just another brick in the wall otherwise. I have my cab files in the c:\windows\options\cabs folder along with all the update files and I haven't done a Windows installation in years. I used to do it every couple of months and it wasn't by choice, I don't those stupid things any more that caused me to need to and I never did open email attachments I didn't ask for. The default behavior for MS updates is hard wired within them to send copies of fixed files to c:\windows\options\cabs. You can certainly then move them to the new installation folder and they will work just as good from there. I just got tired of swimming upstream all the time and gave up. One thing that is required of a drive to boot Windows is that it is set as the Active partition. Fdisk will ONLY set C:\first FAT partition as the active partiton and you will need another partiton tool or 3rd party boot manager to set any other drive/partition as active and without the active partition bit set, it can't boot. And by such manipulations you can eventually boot from D: or what you want, but I've never gone there and done that so I can't speak on it too much more. If any. AeFdisk will allow you to set any Drive or partiton as active and/or some/all of them. Just google the name and you'll find it. With a boot manager program you could install and boot from several Windows folders on various hard drives all over the place. I never wanted or needed to so I never went there myself and I don't know how complicated it would be to set it up. |
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Does windows 98se have to be installed from the same volume?
May be or Maybe Not that not how Windows work
Have you herd of System Backup Before! For c:\windows\options\ is the windows 98 Driver Cache So for 2000 and up it is C:\WINNT\Driver Cache the Folder in 98 is CAB and the Folder in 2000 is i386 by defaulting Yes you can do a Back up to HDD Slave, But the Right way is to do a Install all on HHD Master, and up Date it first! You need to Have at least Two Partitions C:\ is Windows98 D: Backup Clone HHD Master to HDD Slave, remove and put a way for save keeping, For it seeing virus Start attack on HDD Slave and Sec. Partitions first by Formatting them, then move on the HHD Master or First Partition! By default virus start from the back and work foreword, |
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