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re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products"
Friday, January 25, 2008 at 11:20 am
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Posted by gewg_ (3486 messages posted)

|I finally got the Install screen up
| john
|
Huh-zah!

|However,
|
8-(

|[...]"cannot find any of the qualifying products"[...]
|
You are trying to use an *upgrade* CD with a wiped HDD.
Microsoft didn't get its full pound of flesh from you
so his requires the magical incantation.

|After formatting the C: drive[...]I used a boot disk[...]
|that enabled me to reach the Install stage.
| 
cache of http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/86950.html
++MD NTLDR

#5 contains the correct "solution", but his technique is crap
(not to mention poorly-formatted).
The "file" should be a zero-byte "file"--i.e. a DIRECTORY.

#11 has the proper methodology.

#14 has the URL of the original page, which has a few more details.
If Google had a cache of that page, I might have linked to that page.


|About the Sparky thing, all I can tell you
|is that it was recorded as ID:109347 on this forum.
|
That doesn't look in any way like this site's notation.

Written in response to:: re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop -- Insert startup Disk 2 (john: Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 9:16 pm)

Responses to this message:
re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (john: Friday, January 25, 2008 at 4:00 pm)

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Reinstalling Win98 on laptop (john: Wed, Jan 23, 2008, 2:31 pm)

re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop (J.R.: Thu, Jan 24, 2008, 8:25 am)

re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop (john: Thu, Jan 24, 2008, 2:17 pm)

re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop -- Insert startup Disk 2 (gewg_: Thu, Jan 24, 2008, 4:06 pm)

re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop -- Insert startup Disk 2 (john: Thu, Jan 24, 2008, 9:16 pm)

re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (gewg_: Fri, Jan 25, 2008, 11:20 am)

re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (john: Fri, Jan 25, 2008, 4:00 pm)

re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (gewg_: Fri, Jan 25, 2008, 4:49 pm)

re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (john: Sat, Jan 26, 2008, 4:33 pm)

re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (gewg_: Sat, Jan 26, 2008, 7:25 pm)

re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (john: Sat, Jan 26, 2008, 5:59 pm)

"Installing on machine with NO operating system" (gewg_: Sat, Jan 26, 2008, 7:52 pm)

re: "Installing on machine with NO operating system" (john: Wed, Jan 30, 2008, 5:39 pm)

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