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[Bleeding Edge]

Are you using the full OEM/Retail version W98 or the upgrade version?

Is the boot diskette your using the one that came with the OS or did you create it?

With the previous installation on this drive, was the drive divided into multiple partitions? If so, run Fdisk first and delete all extended, logical and primary drives. Recreate the primary partition and set it as active, then format the drive again.

The problem is the CD-Rom is not being recognized as the D: drive. So if there was a extended partition, it would have been assigned the drive letter D:
Therefore, by deleting that partition(s) the CD-Rom will revert to D: once again. This also means that the key files (Autoexec and Config) in the boot diskette are pointing to D: for the CD-Rom.

The other possibility is that the CD-Rom is not supported with the driver(s) that are being loaded. In this case, You need to get the driver and modify some of the lines in the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files of the boot diskette. This would be a hassle.

[socalgal]

Hi Bleeding Edge
No extended partitions - only one;
win98 is full retail version;
boot disk is MS CDROM setup boot disk;
i just performed fdisk /mbr to clear the master boot record;
i deleted and re-created Primary Dos partition and am formatting again...
this is a work in progress, will let you know what happens

[socalgal]

Success!
Now D drive is recognized as a valid drive.

THANKS TO CMONSTER! my Wizard Extraordinaire!

THANKS TO Bleeding Edge for Help!

[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 04-04-99).]

[CMonster]

Just in case anyone is wondering where in the heck CMonster came into this picture ...

AOL INSTANT MESSAGES.....

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BTW Bleeding Edge, you were absolutely correct.



[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 04-04-99).]

[Bleeding Edge]

CMonster. As a matter of fact, I was wondering.

[socalgal]

I just did a format C. I used a reboot disk w/cdrom support, which does load the drivers, however when trying to access the cdrom on drive D, i get an invalid drive message. the cdrom is on ide secondary master, the system a PII 233 MMX and i am trying to do a clean install of win98. Previous OS Win95c w/fat32. i tried entering the boot-up sequence in bios to CDROM, A but that didn't work, same message - invalid disk.
Any help much appreciated!