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Jerry,
I'm sure, http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q229154 is your case. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== On Sat, 14 May 2005 21:15:11 +0100, Jerry C. wrote: I copied the files to a folder on c:. but when i ran setup....same msg. ,to be exact: "Setup does not have enough conventional memory to check your computers hard disks. You need to free some conventional memory before continuing. For information on freeing conventional memory see SETUP.TXT on setup disk or windows 98 cd." What now? I know I'm nearing scrapping this whole thing but there has got to be a way to get this disk to work. It's a legit disk...and i already have 98....this should be easy right? simple update installation? BTW...as you suggested i was in safe mode, so with only essentials running, how could i run on any less memory? Ben Myers Wrote: If you have plenty of disk space, copy the contents of the upgrade CD to the hard drive, then restart the computer from the floppy using "...without CD-ROM support" and type "win /d:m". Then run setup again. Ben ... |
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Mikhail, its a 30G HD split into three 10G partitions. But if i recall correctly I didn't use any third party software to partition, just what came with the Western Digital HD when i put it in. And scandisk and defrag work (albeit slowly) in normal windows mode. This is the first time i've run into this error. How could i check the cluster size?
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I am not sure the 229154 article pertains to your problem. Have you read
about the error message that you are receiving in the setup.txt file that is on the W98 CD and followed the scandisk directions it gives? -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Jerry C." wrote in message ... Mikhail, its a 30G HD split into three 10G partitions. But if i recall correctly I didn't use any third party software to partition, just what came with the Western Digital HD when i put it in. And scandisk and defrag work (albeit slowly) in normal windows mode. This is the first time i've run into this error. How could i check the cluster size? Mikhail Zhilin Wrote: Jerry, I'm sure, http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q229154 is your case. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== On Sat, 14 May 2005 21:15:11 +0100, Jerry C. wrote: - I copied the files to a folder on c:. but when i ran setup....same msg. ,to be exact: "Setup does not have enough conventional memory to check your computers hard disks. You need to free some conventional memory before continuing. For information on freeing conventional memory see SETUP.TXT on setup disk or windows 98 cd." What now? I know I'm nearing scrapping this whole thing but there has got to be a way to get this disk to work. It's a legit disk...and i already have 98....this should be easy right? simple update installation? BTW...as you suggested i was in safe mode, so with only essentials running, how could i run on any less memory? Ben Myers Wrote:- If you have plenty of disk space, copy the contents of the upgrade CD to the hard drive, then restart the computer from the floppy using "...without CD-ROM support" and type "win /d:m". Then run setup again. Ben-- ... -- Jerry C. |
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Jerry,
If the drive was partitioned using WD utilities, and all the drives are 10GB, and scandisk and defrag work -- actually, as Ron said, the article q229154 may be inapplicable. But (the symptoms say about that nevertheless) just in case run (Start -- Run...) Command.com, or Start -- Programs -- MS DOS, in the opened DOS window type, followed by Enter key: chkdsk c: and see what it says about the clusters (allocation units) size: for 10-GB drives it is 8192 bytes by default. Then run chkdsk d: and finally -- chkdsk e: and see the results as well. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:18:59 +0100, Jerry C. wrote: Mikhail, its a 30G HD split into three 10G partitions. But if i recall correctly I didn't use any third party software to partition, just what came with the Western Digital HD when i put it in. And scandisk and defrag work (albeit slowly) in normal windows mode. This is the first time i've run into this error. How could i check the cluster size? Mikhail Zhilin Wrote: Jerry, I'm sure, http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q229154 is your case. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== On Sat, 14 May 2005 21:15:11 +0100, Jerry C. wrote: - I copied the files to a folder on c:. but when i ran setup....same msg. ,to be exact: "Setup does not have enough conventional memory to check your computers hard disks. You need to free some conventional memory before continuing. For information on freeing conventional memory see SETUP.TXT on setup disk or windows 98 cd." What now? I know I'm nearing scrapping this whole thing but there has got to be a way to get this disk to work. It's a legit disk...and i already have 98....this should be easy right? simple update installation? BTW...as you suggested i was in safe mode, so with only essentials running, how could i run on any less memory? Ben Myers Wrote:- If you have plenty of disk space, copy the contents of the upgrade CD to the hard drive, then restart the computer from the floppy using "...without CD-ROM support" and type "win /d:m". Then run setup again. Ben-- ... |
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Mikhail, all three come back as having 8192 bytes per allocation unit.
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Try running setup with the "/c" and "/im" switches. For example, if you
copied the setup files to the "c:\win98" folder, click "Start", "Run", = type "c:\win98\setup /c /im" into the "Open" box and click "OK". Ben "Jerry C." wrote in message = ... =20 Mikhail, all three come back as having 8192 bytes per allocation unit. =20 Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:=20 Jerry, =20 If the drive was partitioned using WD utilities, and all the drives are 10GB, and scandisk and defrag work -- actually, as Ron said, the article q229154 may be inapplicable. But (the symptoms say about that nevertheless) just in case run (Start -- Run...) Command.com, or = Start -- Programs -- MS DOS, in the opened DOS window type, followed by Enter key: =20 chkdsk c: =20 and see what it says about the clusters (allocation units) size: for 10-GB drives it is 8192 bytes by default. =20 Then run chkdsk d: =20 and finally -- chkdsk e: =20 and see the results as well. =20 -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:18:59 +0100, Jerry C. wrote: - =20 Mikhail, its a 30G HD split into three 10G partitions. But if i = recall correctly I didn't use any third party software to partition, just what came with the Western Digital HD when i put it in. And scandisk and defrag work (albeit slowly) in normal windows mode. This is the = first time i've run into this error. How could i check the cluster size? =20 Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:- Jerry, =20 I'm sure, http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q229154 is your case. =20 -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 On Sat, 14 May 2005 21:15:11 +0100, Jerry C. wrote: - =20 I copied the files to a folder on c:. but when i ran setup....same msg. ,to be exact: "Setup does not have enough conventional memory to check your computers hard disks. You need to free some conventional memory before continuing. =20 For information on freeing conventional memory see SETUP.TXT on = setup disk or windows 98 cd." =20 What now? I know I'm nearing scrapping this whole thing but there = has got to be a way to get this disk to work. It's a legit disk...and i already have 98....this should be easy right? simple update installation? BTW...as you suggested i was in safe mode, so with = only essentials running, how could i run on any less memory? =20 Ben Myers Wrote:- If you have plenty of disk space, copy the contents of the upgrade CD to the hard drive, then restart the computer from the floppy using "...without CD-ROM support" and type "win /d:m". Then run setup again. =20 Ben-- ...-- =20 =20 --=20 Jerry C. |
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Jerry,
You can try also the "/is" switch -- to skip Scandisk while setup. BTW, it is the advice of http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q289727 article, where the similar problem is discussed. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== On Sat, 28 May 2005 20:02:10 -0400, "Ben Myers" wrote: Try running setup with the "/c" and "/im" switches. For example, if you copied the setup files to the "c:\win98" folder, click "Start", "Run", type "c:\win98\setup /c /im" into the "Open" box and click "OK". Ben "Jerry C." wrote in message ... Mikhail, all three come back as having 8192 bytes per allocation unit. Mikhail Zhilin Wrote: Jerry, If the drive was partitioned using WD utilities, and all the drives are 10GB, and scandisk and defrag work -- actually, as Ron said, the article q229154 may be inapplicable. But (the symptoms say about that nevertheless) just in case run (Start -- Run...) Command.com, or Start -- Programs -- MS DOS, in the opened DOS window type, followed by Enter key: chkdsk c: and see what it says about the clusters (allocation units) size: for 10-GB drives it is 8192 bytes by default. Then run chkdsk d: and finally -- chkdsk e: and see the results as well. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:18:59 +0100, Jerry C. wrote: - Mikhail, its a 30G HD split into three 10G partitions. But if i recall correctly I didn't use any third party software to partition, just what came with the Western Digital HD when i put it in. And scandisk and defrag work (albeit slowly) in normal windows mode. This is the first time i've run into this error. How could i check the cluster size? Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:- Jerry, I'm sure, http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q229154 is your case. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== On Sat, 14 May 2005 21:15:11 +0100, Jerry C. wrote: - I copied the files to a folder on c:. but when i ran setup....same msg. ,to be exact: "Setup does not have enough conventional memory to check your computers hard disks. You need to free some conventional memory before continuing. For information on freeing conventional memory see SETUP.TXT on setup disk or windows 98 cd." What now? I know I'm nearing scrapping this whole thing but there has got to be a way to get this disk to work. It's a legit disk...and i already have 98....this should be easy right? simple update installation? BTW...as you suggested i was in safe mode, so with only essentials running, how could i run on any less memory? Ben Myers Wrote:- If you have plenty of disk space, copy the contents of the upgrade CD to the hard drive, then restart the computer from the floppy using "...without CD-ROM support" and type "win /d:m". Then run setup again. Ben-- ...-- -- Jerry C. |
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