![]() Does anyone have a solution, please? Is there something I'm missing?Ĭopying Files from a CD-ROM to a Hard Disk Nor can I download any of these drivers from VIA's website direct to my hard drive because (of course) the LAN driver can't be installed either so I can't access the Internet from Win98! Nor can I use floppies (even if I had them) because my USB floppy drive won't function either until these other drivers are installed. However, having done so, it brings up a whole slew of 'Windows has found new hardware' messages for pretty-well everything the computer needs to run - including the CD-ROM drive's IDE input controller! None of these devices will run unless I install their drivers and I can't install their drivers (nearly all of which are on CDs) without being able to load the VIA chipset's driver, which - you've guessed it - is on a CD. I popped the boot floppy in my floppy drive, clicked on 'setup with CD support', and it installed. So I deduced that the only way I was going to make progress was by installing Win98 from the original CD, and then using the upgrade CD to upgrade it to 98-SE. (BTW it really irks me that altho' M$ some time ago withdrew support from both of these products, the unfortunate customer is still forced to jump thro' all these blasted hoops. When I loaded my original (OEM version) Win98 CD in the drive, it was not accepted. I first tried to install from my SE upgrade CD the computer booted from this but soon asked for a prior M$- certified blah blah blah. ![]() Problem at present is that I'm stuck trying to install Win98 (of any flavour) on the first primary partition. I'm using Smart Boot Manager as my boot loader, and have set it to hide each o/s from the other. I've previously formatted the drive and set up primary partitions to hold the two o/s's plus a logical partition accessible to both for my data. ![]() I'm in the process of setting-up a new(ish) SATA hard drive to dual-boot into Win98-SE and WinXP Home.
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