Installing Windows 98?!?!?!?!?!?!

[C.C.]

Ok, I've finally got the system completey assembled. Now I'm trying to install windows and I'm having more trouble than I did with the parts. Exact problem, I go into win98 setup, setups just fine. Goes through entire process...copying files, building driver base, looking for new hardware, etc, ect. Then when it finally restarts and starts to go to the desktop, it starts to finish copying win98 files, only problem is it says it can't them and to insert win98 cd...IT ALREADY IS INSERTED, that's what I've been using to setup with. It gives the option of skipping the files and/or cancel the entire thing. When you do cancel, it goes ahead and loads the desktop, but can't and won't find/load the drivers. The first file that it says it can't find is trid_bio.dll. Any clue? They are several more files, but that's the first(and the only one I wrote down) that comes up missing. I've tried searching the cd on my other system and it can't find that file, nor is it on my other system's harddrive. And just in case anybody is wondering, Bill Gates is the anti-christ. Thanks. C.C.

[This message has been edited by C.C. (edited 10-21-1999).]

[drdeath]

ive had that problem before, too. i dont know what causes it or how to fix it really, but i do know a way around it. if you copy all the setup files from the cd to the hard drive, like into a c:\winsetup directory, and then run the setup from the hard drive, it should work fine. you need to have the extra hard drive space tho /forum/smile.gif
maybe someone else knows how to fix this without all this trouble???

[Bleep]

Sometimes very difficult to figure out things like this but my best guess is that the CD Rom driver did not load in windows, that is it is running in dos Not dos compatibility mode but in DOS and when this happens the OS will not see the files on the CD once windows is booted.
Bleep

[smokin1]

drdeath is right, the best way to install is to copy all the cab files onto the HD and install from there. But..now that you have windows in..sort of..you can run sfc from the run line and it will check for all the missing files and install them from your cd.
As for the problem you had, this seems to happen to a lot of people and you have to go through the drill of pointing the setup back to the cd when that window comes up.
If there are no files other than windows on your comp right now...
try,,,start/run type sfc and enter
let it fix itself
iif you have the time though
just reformat..boot with cd rom support from a start up disk and go to the cd drive and copy win98 to your HD (this is where all the cab files are)
then go back to the c: drive and type setup..away you go on the install...another bonus is you will never be asked for the win 98 cd when installing new hardware etc
good luck
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[Toro 45]

I've run in to this exact same problem.If you have more than one hard drive,(probably any type of extra drive) sometimes Windows will put the wrong drive letter on the CD rom, when searching for files.

Normaly your CD is D drive but with a second drive it becomes E drive. So double check that the CD Rom has the proper letter, according to your setup. /forum/smile.gif

Toro

[C.C.]

Wooooooo Hoooooooh. You people are the greatest. You are without a doubt my savior(d***ed ol' anti-christ Gates). I just wonder what causes that the cd problem...strange. It's not a drive specification thing, becuase it was reading the cd, just said the files weren't there. Anyway, I copied the files to my hard drive and it setup just fine. And now after much fighting with the driver setup, I'm actually using this big hunk o'junk. Although I still haven't figured out what's up with the sound card...but I'll get it. Thanks guys(and gals...with some of those names you just can't tell sometimes). An excstatic C.C.

[NavyDood_ F/A18_Mech]

I had the same problem also. I have the 98 upgrade disk for 95. I ran into the same problems on my last 2 re-formats.

I start from scratch in DOS. I totally format the C drive clean. Bare. I don't even leave the .sys files on it. I then use the boot disk i have made. Then the cd-rom drivers. Then instead of installing 95 first, (because the Win98 is an upgrade only, supposedly) I just install the Win98 CD. Let it start, and then it asks for a copy of Win 95 to verify that you have a working copy of 95. You put the Win95 cd in, it checks it, then it prompts you to put the Win98 CD back in and every thing works like a dream.

I hope this helps, although a little late. /forum/smile.gif

Jim

[Susan]

When installing drivers under WIN98, I've seen the same thing happen that it can't find the files.

It asks for the WIN CD, but in three instances it was the particular hardware driver CD that it really needed.

If you know the hardware that it is attempting to install, try putting in the CD for that hardware and browse around until it finds it.

[Butchk]

I have ran into the same problem with two different computers. Both of which I have had another drive slaved off of the harddrive and the cd in the secondary IDE slot. What I did notice was windows in both cases wanted to use drive D for the CD. The computer already assigned the CD to drive E I don't know why but that is what it done.

[This message has been edited by Butchk (edited 10-22-1999).]

[JerseyJoe]

This is a guess Butchk, windows saves the path to the setup files in the registry in the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Setup\SourcePath
This key is given the default value of D:\Win98
If you copy the win98 cd to your hard drive, you can change this value to the path to your hard drive where you put the copy of the cd. This way windows will search the hard drive for needed files when ever you change your config.