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Formatted HD butt can't install windows?
Everything needed to install Windows 2000 on clean hard drive is on the Windows 2000 CD. When you boot from the CD you can delete, create and format partitions; there is NO need to use DOS (or Windows 95/98) FDISK first. -- Bruce Sanderson bruce.sander...@gems6.gov.bc.ca It is perfectly useless to know the right

Installing Windows from a pirate CD okay if you really have a ...
Your machine behaves as two entirely independent computers, each with its own, wholly independent, Windows install. The currently hidden partition is completely invisible to the currently active installation, it does _not_ appear as another drive. Hmmmm, but I have only one primary now and I can't find any method

Win XP Pro install questions
Richard G. Harper rghar...@email.com microsoft public win98 setup You can't install Windows 98 over Windows 2000. You need to copy any documents and data you want to keep, use FDISK from a boot diskette to remove the Windows 2000 NTFS partition and put a FAT32 partition on there instead, then install Windows 98.

Installing Windows 95
As you know, the present OS on the hard drive is Windows 95. I think the best thing to do is to wipe my hard drive clean, and install Windows 98 SE. I'm not sure how to do this, since it's been a while. I think I just need to remove the files from the hard drive, and Windows 98 SE should install on the clean disk.

Installing windows 98 over windows 95
How can I migrate from my old machine without losing data? http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kg7kr7/installation.htm#How do I install Windows directly on my RAID Windows 98 Walkthrough V2 - Reinstall Windows with a boot disk and from the hard drive, graphical guide. Windows 98 Walkthrough V3 - Install Windows with

HELP! I want to install Windows 95 to a different drive.
Click "Install." " MowGreen *-343-* Never Forgotten denao wrote: I have just installed my windows XP home, and when I try to update at windows update, the page says the windows update control has been updated and I need to install the windows update control, when I click on "Install" it goes back to the same page

Reinstall Windows 98?!?!?!??!
During cleanup, I noticed that it had infected some MS Windows files. Now, I can't get the Control Panel to display at all if I select the Start | Settings | Control Panel menuitem. I'd like to re-install Windows 98 to correct the infected files. However, Gateway doesn't provide the MS Windows 98 CD.

Primary HD errors - uninstall Win98? Install on other HD?
Solution #2: (We did that, but got the following message from WP8 Install.) "Microsoft Windows Messaging files are out of date and must be updated. Alternatively if you do not wish to install Windows Messaging in full: For Win95, copy MAPWIN95.DLL from the CD into the \Windows\System folder, rename MAPI32.

Cant Instal Windows 98
The various distributions have all matured a lot, and it's my opinion that the average 'idiot' user can install Linux more easily than they can install Windows. Your average idiot user can't install windows either. What is the average 'idiot' user? Well, I don't like stupid names like "Joe Sixpack", "Joe Average",

Can't install Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express)*
Thorsten Matzner tmatz...@gmx.net comp windows misc sportyjul...@aol.com (jules) wrote: which had windows 95, pre-installed on it (unfortunately,windows95 cd has which leads me to believe that the cd ROM is not being found, could this be true? anyway the problem is i cant install anything, any help, advice,

MS Access crashes when sending in Outlook Express
S.Sengupta ssengup...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp general -----Original Message----- Hi, Im trying to instal Windows Xp prof SP1 vertion, once I formatt the HDD and after copying files, when its comw to the Installing window it show s me this erroe messeage. Error: . Hello! which Error?

An 11 year old can install Linux, why can't you?
Tom Scales tom...@softhome.net alive computers hardware systems compaq alt sys pc-clone compaq alt sys pc-clone compaq servers compaq developer visualbasic Do: Format C: /S you need the /S to install the operating system files on the hard drive. Tom "Eric V" <News_Vik...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

Is it ok to re-install Windows without formatting?
Try renaming the c:\windows\win.com to something you can delete later (win.del), rename the c:\window\system\gdi.exe also. When you do this, Windows setup won't know that you have Windows 95 on the system and will start a new install over what you have. If this fails, try attribing the c:\system.1st to -r -s -h and

Windows NT 4 => Windows 98
You could install Windows on the second hard drive D and retain the first hard drive as the boot drive. This would be a new installation of Windows, with has both You could copy the existing C drive to D, switch the two drives, and re-install Windows to the new C drive. This has the advantage that it's a

Can't install Windows with certain brand of optical drive
You can install Windows on a clean hard disk with one partition with absolutely no fuss, just going through the steps. By contrast, in order Yup, this was especially nice before FAT32 was widely available. Castration is a double edged sword. Sure it's dead simple, however is it also risks becoming useless.

Can't install Windows Installer 3.1
sunyard chen c...@sunyard.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware Hi, I am a system administrator for a corp, I installed windows xp on my work PC, because I must do some administrative route on my work pc, so I want to install windows 2000 adminpak on it, but when I install it, windows xp addressed that it's

Can't reinstall windows
Examples are it hangs for a minute when booting, her search function doesn't work, her remote assistance doesn't work, she gets Windows Installer errors, it won't install Windows XP Service Pack 2, etc etc etc. Lots if problems. I ran a few 'repair' programs, but nothing helped. If it were my pc, I'd just format it

Just Built PC: can I install windows from Upgrade Version?
UPGRADE VERSION: Will perform either clean install or upgrade of existing OS. Will ask for proof of ownership of an earlier version if one is not installed. WIN98 SE UPDATES: Will only install if Windows 98 is present on the hard drive. Cannot be used for a clean install at all. OEM VERSION: Only installs on a

Install Windows 98 alongside a previously installed OS?
Second, I think linux does a better job of installing windows than windows does. I can install linux mandrake/redhat fine but I have to install windws(for just one stupid program,visualc++). Anyway, I cant install windows, I keep getting errors. I have a hard drive that is 2hrs old, 20gb. First I went to install

Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
I'll run scandisk, defrag, and then upgrade to Windows ME (I've had the disk forever, but never used it yet). When I went to defrag, insufficient memory. Scandisk, insufficient memory. Install Windows ME, insufficient memory. Re-install Windows 98 SE, insufficient memory. I have gone into my control panel, system,