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re: setup stuck in "setting up hardware"
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by cch
(34 messages posted)
moving windows to windows0 works for me too. I was able to re-install win98 and then
upgrade to xp. I did not do anything to the hard disks except swapped the power supply
to the disks and now I don't see any HDD error on boot up. Thanks.
On Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 6:47 pm, dhm wrote:
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>This sounds like something that happened to me. I have Win98 and Win2K.
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>A couple times in the past I refreshed Win98 with a reinstall directly over the
old
>system. That fixed some damaged functioning that had been at the quirky level of
>seriousness.
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>Then I went to dual boot and tried again. I cannot conclude that this was the cause
>of the problem.
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>Part of the problem seemed to be that I had not completely uninstalled and deleted
>the antivirus, AVG. But that still was not enough.
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>So I went to DOS and renamed C:\WINDOWS to C:\WINDOWS0. Then the
reinstall
>worked and I copied some stuff (like wallpapers) over from WINDOWS0 and deleted
it.
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>I can't tell if that is your problem or the solution to it because I am only guessing
>at some of the details of your setup.
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