Grandcheapskate
Veteran Member
Hi Guys,
I am installing Win98 onto a machine which used to have DOS. I formatted the C drive (using Win98 software) but left data on all the logical drives. I boot off a Win98 diskette and then run the SETUP program from the full install CD. The OS starts to load then I get a message telling me an operating system already exists and I need to use a Win98 update CD.
Since there is a blank C drive and no OS files on the other logical drives, my only conclusion is a Win98 full install CD wants every defined drive to be completely empty. Is that true? If not, what else could it be?
Update:
Just for fun I decided to try using the Win98 Upgrade CD even though there is no OS currently on the C drive. It seems to be working. Very interesting. It appears I can upgrade without an existing OS on the hard drive.
Also interesting: it choose the default OS location as the D:\Windows, not C:\Windows.
Thanks...Joe
I am installing Win98 onto a machine which used to have DOS. I formatted the C drive (using Win98 software) but left data on all the logical drives. I boot off a Win98 diskette and then run the SETUP program from the full install CD. The OS starts to load then I get a message telling me an operating system already exists and I need to use a Win98 update CD.
Since there is a blank C drive and no OS files on the other logical drives, my only conclusion is a Win98 full install CD wants every defined drive to be completely empty. Is that true? If not, what else could it be?
Update:
Just for fun I decided to try using the Win98 Upgrade CD even though there is no OS currently on the C drive. It seems to be working. Very interesting. It appears I can upgrade without an existing OS on the hard drive.
Also interesting: it choose the default OS location as the D:\Windows, not C:\Windows.
Thanks...Joe
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