THINGS THAT YOU WILL NEED:
CD ROM WIN98 FULL VERSION
STARTUP FLOPPY DISK(BOOTDISK)

I WILL TELL YOU HOW TO PARTITION YOUR HARD DRIVE OR FDISK, FORMAT YOUR HARD DRIVE, AND BOOT YOUR COMPUTER SO YOU CAN INSTALL
WIN98 FROM CD ROM DRIVE.

1.   

THE FIRST THING THAT YOU WILL NEED IS A BOOT OR STARTUP DISC. IF YOU HAVE ONE SKIP TO 2.

TO MAKE A STARTUP DISK THE EASIEST WAY IS TO FIND ONE IS TO GO TO WWW.BOOTDISK.COM AND DOWN LOAD ONE THERE: MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD ONE WITH CDROM SUPPORT.IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO A COMPUTER WITH WIN 98 ON IT  GO TO MY COMPUTER THEN CONTROL PANEL
THEN ADD REMOVE PROGRAMS THEN STARTUP DISK TAB.THEN FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS AND MAKE A FLOPPY STARTUP DISC.

2.

HOW TO PARTITION YOUR HARD DRIVE:
THIS IS THE FIRST THING THAT YOU WILL NEED TO DO TO INSTALL WIN98.

NOTE !!!!!!! WHEN YOU DO THIS YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING ON YOUR COMPUTER. SO IF THERE IS SOMETHING YOU WANT TO KEEP SAVE TO FLOPPY OR OTHER NOW!!!

OK FIRST THING TURN OFF COMPUTER AND PUT THE WIN98 STARTUP DISK (FLOPPY)
IN THE COMPUTER TURN THE POWER ON. YOU SHOULD GET A NORMAL BIOS SCREEN
IT WILL SAY (STARTING WIN 98). YOU WILL THEN GET A SCREEN SAYING
MICROSOFT WINDOWS STARTUP MENU. THERE WILL BE THREE CHOICES PICK
1. START WITH CD ROM SUPPORT.
YOUR CDROM DRIVERS WILL NOW BE LOADING.

NEXT IT WILL SAY PREPARING TO START YOUR COMPUTER.
YOU SHOULD NOW HAVE THE A:\ (PROMPT)
TYPE C:\ THEN HIT ENTER
THEN TYPE:

COPY A:\FDISK.EXE

WILL LOOK LIKE THIS:          C:\COPY A:\FDISK.EXE

HIT ENTER AND IT SHOULD SAY 1 FILE(S) COPIED.
THEN TYPE FDISK

LOOKS LIKE THIS:         C:\FDISK

YOU SHOULD NOW HAVE A SCREEN THAT  SAYS ENABLE LARGE DISK SUPPORT IF
YOUR HARD DRIVE IS BIGGER THAN 512MB HIT Y THEN ENTER.
THE NEXT SCREEN WILL SAY FDISK OPTIONS.
IF THIS IS A NEW HARD DRIVE SKIP TO 1.1 IF THIS IS A USED HARD DRIVE
READ ON.

USED HARD DISK :
ON THE FDISK OPTIONS SCREEN ENTER 1. DELETE PRIMARY DOS PARTITION: IF
YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE IT WILL TELL YOU.

IF ONLY 1 PARTITION:
AFTER ENTERING 1. DELETE PRIMARY PARTITION THE NEXT SCREEN WILL
SAY DELETE PRIMARY PARTITION IT WILL SHOW YOUR C: 1
AT THE FLASHING WARNING SIGN IT WILL SAY [1] (Y)
HIT ENTER THEN IT WILL ASK FOR THE VOLUME LABEL THIS IS AT THE TOP OF
THE SCREEN WHERE IT LISTS THE C: TYPE IN THE NUMBERS AND OR LETTERS
EXACTLY AS THEY ARE SHOWN AND HIT ENTER OR Y.
NEXT YOU SHOULD BE BACK AT THE SCREEN FDISK OPTIONS; IF YOU ARE NOT
THERE SHOULD BE A BOX AT THE BOTTOM THAT SAYS HIT ESCAPE TO RETURN TO
FDISK OPTIONS.GO TO 1.1

1.1 NEW HARD DRIVE
THE NEXT THING THAT YOU WILL DO IS HIT 1. CREATE PRIMARY PARTITION
FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS AFTER YOU DO THIS IT WILL SHOW THE PERCENTAGE
OF DRIVE PARTITIONED THEN IT WILL ASK YOU TO RESTART MAKE SURE THAT THE
WINN98 STARTUP DISC IS IN THE COMPUTER AND RESTART. SEE FORMAT HARD DRIVE:

IF MORE THAN 1 PARTITION:
YOU MUST DELETE YOUR EXTENDED PARTITIONS BEFORE YOU CAN DELETE YOUR
PRIMARY PARTITION.
AFTER YOU DELETE YOUR EXTENDED PARTITION GO BACK TO IF ONLY 1 PARTITION.

FORMAT HARD DRIVE:
AT THIS POINT YOU SHOULD HAVE FDISKED YOUR HARD DRIVE.AND RESTARTED YOUR COMPUTER WITH THE WIN98 STARTUP DISC IN THE COMPUTER.

YOU SHOULD BE BACK TO THE START WITH CDROM SUPPORT DO THIS AND WHEN YOU
GET TO THE A:\ PROMPT
TYPE FORMAT C: NO \

LIKE THIS:      A:\FORMAT C:

NEXT YOU WILL SEE A MESSAGE THAT SAYS
WARNING,ALL DATA WILL ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK WILL BE LOST!
PROCEED WITH FORMAT(Y/N)?_
ENTER Y
YOUR HARD DRIVE WILL SHOW THE PERCENTAGE DONE. AFTER IT IS DONE IT WILL
ASK YOU TO LABEL OR NAME YOUR HARD DRIVE UP TO SEVEN CHARACTERS: NOTE
THIS IS WHAT YOUR C:\ NAME WILL LOOK LIKE IN MY COMPUTER.

AFTER YOU DO THIS YOU WILL BE BACK AT THE C:\ PROMPT. REMOVE THE FORMAT
DISC FROM THE COMPUTER AND PUT THE CDROM DISK IN THE DRIVE.
AT THE C:\PROMPT TYPE D:\ THEN ENTER.
AT THE D:\ TYPE SETUP HIT ENTER LOOKS LIKE THIS
C:\D:\
THEN
D:\SETUP
THIS SHOULD START YOUR CDROM AND START INSTALLING WIN 98 FOLLOW THE
INSTRUCTIONS. THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT.

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