my mom has this old pc she dosent want to get rid of.i made a boot disk of win 98.fdisk the hard drive.when i reboot and try to instart win with boot disc.it says windows needs 78,000,000 kb to install.what am i doing wrong.could it be the bios is screwed up from the changing of the millennium?and the bios needs to be updated?i cant figure it out.the pc wont let me reinstall windows.my mom broke the master boot floppy so im just trying to install windows from cdrom with boot disc i made on floppy.can you help me?i told her its no good anymore,damn its so slow[lol]but she wants that one[lol]thanks in advance
it has 64 mb ram.and im trying to install windows 98 from a 98 cdrom.i put the 98 boot disk on a floppy and put in drive,and selected boot with cdrom,then all the drivers load.then it looks like windows is going to start,but then it says:windows checking reg. windows is configuring windows needs 78,000,000 kb to install on c:\ so i reformated large wouldnt work so i said no to large disc still wouldnt work its sort of not worth it but do i need third party software to reformat in fat32,im thinking its not formatting right. oh and its a 40 gb hard drive also it has an old abit ab-LX6 motherboard it was formatting at 4gb a partition[or 4mb]i forget i did it friday
you know what i didnt really look.is that important?if its not seeing the right size thats my whole problem huh?im going there within the next couple of days.ill look at that.thanks...if it is seeing the right gbs what else could be stopping windows from installing?i remember it saying the biggest partition was 4gb which gave me 50 percent of the disc and then when i fdisk it large it said i was using 100 percent of the disc.then i made the disk active right?does that help?if not ill look at it again and come back and post here again.thanks
