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@Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:21:22 -0400
Subject: Re: reinstall W98 with ECS installed
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Phil Astley wrote:

> I used to have no trouble installing OS/2 - done it hundreds of times.
> When I finally had to use newer hardware - esp big disks, I eventually
> found the easiest way was to upgrade to ECS. I love ECS.
 
> However, recently my W98 system seemed corrupt so I reformatted it and
> tried to reinstal. It told me I already had an OS installed and as this
> was not an upgrade version, I should get one. Figuring the OS was my
> third system - W2K, I relucantly formatted the W2K partition. I also
> removed Boot Manager. No joy.
 
> So now I've lost the two Win systems, and still W98 refuses to install
> because it's not an upgrade version. Surely I don't have to wipe the ECS
> partition? or just as bad, some of the other partitions I have formatted
> variously as FAt16, FAT32, NTFS and HPFS?
 
> Any ideas greatly appreciated.

First thing is to make the windoze target partition the active
partition. There are howto's out there for using an upgrade CD to
install on a "clean" partition. One place to look is
http://www.annoyances.org/. IIRC, you can use the upgrade version just
by placing one or two particular files in the location windoze expects
to find them. IIRC, C:\WINDOWS\WIN.COM might be the key file. After
windoze is happily reinstalled, reinstall just Boot Manager. 
-- 
"...[B]e quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry...."
                                                James 1:19 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html


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