I've uninstalled everything on this computer to wipe out all my files as i want to donate it. However, when i tried to reinstall windows 98, it ran through the whole sequence up to the restart. Then the computer restarts automatically and i get a prompt to put in disk 2. there is no disk 2 and i don't think you need one. Have tried starting it w/out cd rom support, with cd rom support, w/a backup floppy and get the same thing. the only way i can get it to boot is in safe mode. any suggestions?

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Morning Bethany, I have a sneaking suspicion your win 98 CD is an upgrade version. I think you are being asked to put in disk 2 of windows 3.1 install so that win 98 can verify that you are eligible for a win 98 upgrade install. If I am right, you are going nowhere unless you find your win 3.1 disks or else you Ebay-buy a win 98 full install CD (with product key). Don


On Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 9:39 pm, Bethany wrote:
>I've uninstalled everything on this computer to wipe out all my files as i want to
>donate it. However, when i tried to reinstall windows 98, it ran through the whole
>sequence up to the restart. Then the computer restarts automatically and i get a
>prompt to put in disk 2. there is no disk 2 and i don't think you need one. Have
>tried starting it w/out cd rom support, with cd rom support, w/a backup floppy and
>get the same thing. the only way i can get it to boot is in safe mode. any suggestions?

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Bethany - if you search this forum you will find a number of posts that tell you how to get around the issue of providing a verification disk to install an update. I believe it's a DOS command but I don't know exactly what it is.


On Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 9:39 pm, Bethany wrote:
>I've uninstalled everything on this computer to wipe out all my files as i want to
>donate it. However, when i tried to reinstall windows 98, it ran through the whole
>sequence up to the restart. Then the computer restarts automatically and i get a
>prompt to put in disk 2. there is no disk 2 and i don't think you need one. Have
>tried starting it w/out cd rom support, with cd rom support, w/a backup floppy and
>get the same thing. the only way i can get it to boot is in safe mode. any suggestions?

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Yep. I've got the upgrade version of Win98. And I have my Win95 which I got for $10 if I had to do a complete install. However, the last time I reloaded Win98 I renamed C:\WINDOWS to C:\WINDOWS0.

When I installed Win95 I had Win3.1 on another drive. Win95 did not want to install because it was not an upgrade. I had to change the file WIN.COM in the Win3.1 drive to WIN.CO to allow the new installation.


On Monday, February 25, 2008 at 12:25 am, Don wrote:
>Morning Bethany,
>I have a sneaking suspicion your win 98 CD is an upgrade version. I think you are
>being asked to put in disk 2 of windows 3.1 install so that win 98 can verify that
>you are eligible for a win 98 upgrade install. If I am right, you are going nowhere
>unless you find your win 3.1 disks or else you Ebay-buy a win 98 full install CD
>(with product key). Don
>
>
>

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|if you search this forum you will find a number of posts that tell you how
|to get around the issue of providing a verification disk to install an update. 
|I believe it's a DOS command but I don't know exactly what it is.
| Jeno
|
Your recent posts have either restated what has already been posted
or (like this one) vague to the point of being insignificant.

What I suggest is that you read the previous posts before responding to a thread
and when you can't give a new and truly descriptive answer
that you don't respond at all.


||[...]the computer restarts automatically and i get a prompt to put in disk 2.
||there is no disk 2 and i don't think you need one.
|| Bethany
||
JmC covered this nicely here:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1053756583

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