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re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop -- Insert startup Disk 2
Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by john
(15 messages posted)
After a few hours I finally got the Install screen up and felt real good. However,
the wellness was shortlived because the dropdown said "cannot find any of the qualifying
products" and that was that - end of story.
Perhaps I should mention the history of the laptop:
1. Purchased through EBay .
2. It had Win 98 already installed.
3. After formatting the C: drive I used an updated
Second Edition CD which I had bought to update
my Presario desktop some time ago.
4. I used a boot disk on my laptop that enabled me
to reach the Install stage. That's where I am now.
About the Sparky thing, all I can tell you is that it
it was recorded as ID:109347 on this forum.
Thanks again for your interest.
>|Tried that but, just like the original Startup Disk and a few others,
>|cant get the CD to work, I keep getting "Insert startup Disk 2"
>| john
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>Sounds like you need a bootable floppy
>with a DOS device driver for your optical drive.
>cache of http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
>++IDE.CDrom.Drivers.Included
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>The WinME image is actually the better one.
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>If this doesn't get you going, describe IN DETAIL what you are doing.
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>:::I found an excellent reply from Sparky to someone with the same problem
>:::and did exactly as prescribed
>:::
>DETAILS are nice. I don't know of anyone here who is clairvoyant.
>A **link** to what you have read is helpful.
>(Use the QuickLink button to make it clickable.)
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