Thanks for the help

I thank all of you who responded to my 11/14 post cdrom will not boot up. I
finally borrowed a real mswin98se cd from a friend, ran E:\ Setup.exe, and
everything started up, loaded windows, entered my product key, and things
went pretty well.
I have a couple of error messages, but I want to see if I can resolve them
myself, before I ask you for more help.
So again, thak you Ben Meyers, Jeff Richards, Philo, Don Phillipson, MEB,
Sunny, & Lil' Dave.
--
compaq 7360, maxtor max blast plus II 40 gig hdd, a open based cd-952b
cdrom, win98se

"glinjxn" wrote in message
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I thank all of you who responded to my 11/14 post cdrom will not boot up.
I
finally borrowed a real mswin98se cd from a friend, ran E:\ Setup.exe, and
everything started up, loaded windows, entered my product key, and things
went pretty well.
I have a couple of error messages, but I want to see if I can resolve them
myself, before I ask you for more help.
So again, thak you Ben Meyers, Jeff Richards, Philo, Don Phillipson, MEB,
Sunny, & Lil' Dave.



UR welcome

since you used a generic cd, there are probably some drivers that you will
need

However, it's possible, now that you do have Windows installed,
that you could put your restore cd in and run the restore from there...


At least the Compaq restore cd I have is designed to begin the restoration
process while actually booted to Windows.
and if yours works similarly....it will save you from the necessity of
hunting down drivers

"philo" wrote in message
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"glinjxn" wrote in message
...
I thank all of you who responded to my 11/14 post cdrom will not boot
up.
I
finally borrowed a real mswin98se cd from a friend, ran E:\ Setup.exe,
and
everything started up, loaded windows, entered my product key, and
things
went pretty well.
I have a couple of error messages, but I want to see if I can resolve
them
myself, before I ask you for more help.
So again, thak you Ben Meyers, Jeff Richards, Philo, Don Phillipson,
MEB,
Sunny, & Lil' Dave.



UR welcome

since you used a generic cd, there are probably some drivers that you
will
need

However, it's possible, now that you do have Windows installed,
that you could put your restore cd in and run the restore from there...


At least the Compaq restore cd I have is designed to begin the
restoration
process while actually booted to Windows.
and if yours works similarly....it will save you from the necessity of
hunting down drivers

IMHO it is far better to stick with Win98SE rather than "Compaq98SE".
The PC will run better without the Compaq stuff :-)

"Sunny" wrote in message
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"philo" wrote in message
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"glinjxn" wrote in message
...
I thank all of you who responded to my 11/14 post cdrom will not boot
up.
I
finally borrowed a real mswin98se cd from a friend, ran E:\ Setup.exe,
and
everything started up, loaded windows, entered my product key, and
things
went pretty well.
I have a couple of error messages, but I want to see if I can resolve
them
myself, before I ask you for more help.
So again, thak you Ben Meyers, Jeff Richards, Philo, Don Phillipson,
MEB,
Sunny, & Lil' Dave.



UR welcome

since you used a generic cd, there are probably some drivers that you
will
need

However, it's possible, now that you do have Windows installed,
that you could put your restore cd in and run the restore from there...


At least the Compaq restore cd I have is designed to begin the
restoration
process while actually booted to Windows.
and if yours works similarly....it will save you from the necessity of
hunting down drivers

IMHO it is far better to stick with Win98SE rather than "Compaq98SE".
The PC will run better without the Compaq stuff :-)




But if the drivers are missing...the Compaq Cd would have them all...
any unneeded apps could simple be uninstalled.

That said...it *might* be possible to get the drivers from the restore cd...
but they'd have to be in their own folders and not part of the restore image

I'd recommend going to the HP web site and downloading any needed drivers
from there. Those Compaq restore CDs install a load of useless crap which
probably won't be totally removed through the uninstall routine.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"philo" wrote in message
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"glinjxn" wrote in message
...
I thank all of you who responded to my 11/14 post cdrom will not boot up.
I
finally borrowed a real mswin98se cd from a friend, ran E:\ Setup.exe,
and
everything started up, loaded windows, entered my product key, and things
went pretty well.
I have a couple of error messages, but I want to see if I can resolve
them
myself, before I ask you for more help.
So again, thak you Ben Meyers, Jeff Richards, Philo, Don Phillipson, MEB,
Sunny, & Lil' Dave.



UR welcome

since you used a generic cd, there are probably some drivers that you will
need

However, it's possible, now that you do have Windows installed,
that you could put your restore cd in and run the restore from there...


At least the Compaq restore cd I have is designed to begin the restoration
process while actually booted to Windows.
and if yours works similarly....it will save you from the necessity of
hunting down drivers