re: Help! Scandisk woes and other problems Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 5:53 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Erin (8 messages posted) Ok, I did the command you gave me and it said "Scanning registry..." for awhile. Then it said "Copying files needed for Windows Setup..." for about an hour and a half. Then it said "Setup is unable to write to the temporary directory and cannot continue." What should I do now? On Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 5:50 am, JasperT2 wrote: >If 95 is on the PC and the Win.com is missing you can install 98/98se over top. From >the 98 source use the setup.exe but use the following syntax: "Setup.exe /IM /ID >/IS /IQ" to skip the scandisk and other system checks during the install. (setup.exe >/? for a list of options) If the system fails the scandisk consistently I would >suspect a bad sector (physical damage) on the disk. If you do get 98 to load, I would >recommed a full scandisk / surface scan immediately after the install and before >loading more software on the disk. > > > Written in response to: re: Help! Scandisk woes and other problems. (JasperT2: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 5:50 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Help! Scandisk woes and other problems. (Erin: Mon, Mar 13, 2006, 10:19 pm) re: Why not go straight into Windows98? (Kiwi: Tue, Mar 14, 2006, 5:36 am) re: Help! Scandisk woes and other problems. (JasperT2: Tue, Mar 14, 2006, 5:50 am) re: Help! Scandisk woes and other problems (Erin: Tue, Mar 14, 2006, 6:13 am) re: Help! Scandisk woes and other problems (C K: Tue, Mar 14, 2006, 8:41 am) re: Help! Scandisk woes and other problems (Erin: Tue, Mar 14, 2006, 5:53 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum