win98 needs reloading

[krishcanag]

Hello

I got mad and did a format c:\ on an old PC, now I cannot load anything on it.
It had win98 on it before. Now I went to this web site and bought this one:

http://www.softwarevending.com/info-Microsoft_Windows_98_Second_Edition.html

Now I made a boot disk on a labtop and I can get the PC to boot up and ask me if I want to boot with CD_ROM as well and I say yes.

Trouble is I cannot see any files on any CD I insert into cd drive, it only shows volume label
C:\ has no files in it as well since I reformatted it.
What do I need to do to get CD to display files so I can run win98.exe

thanks

krishan

 

[krishcanag]

I have a CD on Win98SE. If you have the OEM sticker and license then I can send you a copy. You need to have a valid license and key otherwise it will not work though.

On the download page after paying it displayed licence as well. So yes I have it.

I tried sticking into my labtop, it displays win98 and if I click it it brings up a window and starts playing misic for win 98.

krishan

 

[krishcanag]

I have solved the orginal issue and managed to load win 98. It turned out that I should not have extracted the ISO file using winrar but just burn the cd with ISO. Files can be then seen and loaded win98. However, when trying to load drivers for installed devices, it failed to find a few drivers and also a file within some directory was not there and asked to insert win98 CD and get dll, but it was not there either.

So I have a PC that boots win98, I have had to just click here and there to install any driver to stop found PCI communications, video and sound h/w, I have no sound now, display works and so I have a poor man's PC, maybe I will just get rid of it, looks like I wasted my money on the win98 downloaded image!!!

krishan