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Yes you will be able to, but (yes there is always something) the first time you run it will take awhile as it has to change all of its drivers to match the new hardware. Additionally you may also need to have driiver CDs or dowload some things since Windows does not have every driver already in it. Included in this is the posibility of needing the Windows CD if the cab files are not already on your HD. Hope this helps, good luck.
__________________ Brain: Come Pinky! We must prepare for tomorrow night.
Pinky: Why? What are we going to do tomorrow night?
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Thanks. I was re-installing Windows 98 and evidently the CD is corrupted since it can't find certain files on the CD to install. So now I am stuck on my old computer until I find a way of getting an OS on my new computer.
Have you looked to see if the cab files were installed originally. If so you can point to them instead of the CD. Start->Find->Files or Folders: Search for *.cab then when the program asks for the CD type in the location of the cab files instead.
__________________ Brain: Come Pinky! We must prepare for tomorrow night.
Pinky: Why? What are we going to do tomorrow night?
Brain: The same thing we do every night....TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
I am afraid I deleted the old windows directory before I started the re-install. Going to have to risk ruining my old computer by taking out the HD or get someone to give me an OS disk ehhe.
Sorry I can't be of more help but there are a few to many states between us. Maybe its just my freinds but every gaming group I've been in has at least one computer savvy person. Hopefully you have such a friend or two who could help more.
__________________ Brain: Come Pinky! We must prepare for tomorrow night.
Pinky: Why? What are we going to do tomorrow night?
Brain: The same thing we do every night....TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
How dead is the CD? Can't read any of the contents, or just the windows installer fails to run?
If you're lucky, you might still be able to copy the contents onto something else (your HD, a CD etc), and you might not have any problems.
Apart from that, shifting the HD across will work, to a point.
That point is - if you don't have the windows CD, and you have any hardware on the new PC that has microsoft-supplied drivers for it, then you won't be able to install the drivers for it.
Just be thankful you're not Australian. Microsoft put something on windows XP over here which makes you phone them up anytime your hardware changes...
The CD does 2 different things when I have tried to install it.
1) Scans the computer HD, then gets ready to setup and says it can't find......think it was setup.dll.
or
2) Gets all the way to starting to install files and starts not being able to find files. First one is text which I skip, then an INF file which I skip since I have no choice, then a third one, forget what it is. But it won't let me skip it.
If you delete files while in DOS, is there a way of restoring them from DOS? Thought maybe I could try to restore what would be left of my old windows.
Windows 95 does this all the time. It's really annoying.
The file it's looking for IS there. You just have to find it and
point to it. Search through the directories on the CD for the file
or for a CAB file that shows up in the file browser.
I think the file on the hard disk is usually in Windows\System or something. And on the CD it's in i386\... something... It's been
so long, I can hardly remember. I do remember that "feature" in
windows 95 driving me batty though.
Just search through the directories until you find a file that the
install program will accept.
Originally posted by Saeviomagy Just be thankful you're not Australian. Microsoft put something on windows XP over here which makes you phone them up anytime your hardware changes...
They originally had that on all of them. I believe they scaled it back somewhat, though. The lab computer only makes me call when I make fairly significant changes.
Dragongirl- who built your new computer? And who supplied the Win98 CD? Sounds like you're may be dealing with a custom company configuration on one end or the other. My old Compaq, for example, could not be upgraded to a new version of Windows because it was a special Compaq-only license. It manifested as "Missing necessary files" or some term like that. I won't tell you all the B.S. I went through trying to resolve it, as there are tenuous legalities involved.
Originally posted by Canis Dragongirl- who built your new computer? And who supplied the Win98 CD?
I built my new computer, to a degree. Came with case, CD-ROM and motherboard. I put in the HD, Sound and Video cards. Windows 98 was working on it for about a year. But I started having problems a bit ago (think I got a virus). Ended up having to reformat the HD and since then I have been having problems of one kind or another. Have had to re-install Win 98 quite a few times in the last few weeks. My opinion is that the CD is just getting worn out.
As to where I got the CD, I bought it (well my father did) years ago when 98 first came out.
Simplicity. I will have to try that. Not tonight though, too frustrated with the whole thing.
Griswold. I saw what you posted before you edited.
Ouch. Good luck with that, Dragongirl. Sometimes it takes a while to shake the ghosts out after something like that. I know it seems redundant, but another formatting sometimes helps.
Not to discourage you, but I once had to just buy a new hard drive for a lab computer with similar issues. I kept the old hard drive as a slave for data storage, since the occasional error on a non-boot disk is a lot more bearable than random Windows crashes.
Perhaps this will cheer you a little (or maybe my sense of humor is on the fritz... it happens). But I found it amusing that when I ran this page through the Dialectizer (as mentioned here, this is one of your quotes:
Quote:
Originally posted by Dragongirl (Cockney version)
I'm afraid I deleted the bleedin' old windows lockup before I started the re-install. Right. Gonna 'ave ter risk ruinin' me ole French Tutor by takin' out the HD or cop some bloke ter give us an OS disk ehhe.
I didn't see the part about you having deleted your windows folder until after I posted. You might want to boot to DOS with an emergency boot disk, create a win98 folder on yur HD and copy the x:\win98 (where x is your cd drive letter) folder to the folder you created on the hard drive and run setup from there.
If you reformat, and I prolly would at this point, do an fdisk /mbr after you format the drive, sometimes that clears some of that old junk that collects in the master boot record.
G.
Last edited by Griswold; 18th October 2002 at 07:46 AM..
Originally posted by Griswold I didn't see the part about you having deleted your windows folder until after I posted. You might want to boot to DOS with an emergency boot disk, create a win98 folder on yur HD and copy the x:\win98 (where x is your cd drive letter) folder to the folder you created on the hard drive and run setup from there.
G.
Interesting idea. I am not that great with DOS what exactly would the command look like? Saying the CD-Rom is F and the HD is C.
While you are at it, making a dir.....don't know the DOS for that either.
Originally posted by Dragongirl Canis, you are too funny. Cop some bloke eh? Never heard it called that before.
Well, right, yer'll be after wantin' ter peel to the dialectizer, then?
Well, my lady may wish ter broaden 'er 'orizons as an escape from computerized pains. The realm o' wich, by the by, Master Griswold 'as proven much more capable of 'elpin' yer than a lowly salt of the Earth like meself. So I turn ter more jesterly purwhistle and flutes as befits me 'umble roots.
Yer too can cop yorself an embarrassment of linguistic riches wiv wich ter amuse yer mates and taunt yer enemies.
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