Win98SE question

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Hard and Confused

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K, got a messed up but not fubar win98SE install on a friends fathers Toshiba notebook that he uses for a CNC lathe and the hardware is good and I've traced the issue to the falling appart installation of Win98SE.

Heres my question:

Getting a lot of files that will not copy during a repair install so can I hook the HD up to another machine, delete the files in the directory " C:\Windows" then run the install and keep his programs intact or is there a hive file in the windows directory that I need to avoid deleting? More accurately I want to delete key folders in the windows directory leaving the drivers folder and such alone.

I haven't messed with 98 in years so I honestly forgot almost everything about it :(
 
just like with 2000, XP, Vista, etc, some program installs create registry keys.
finding these will not be fun, not to mention there is no 100% guarantee putting these keys back into the registry after a reinstall will work.

if files are failing to copy with a repair, are you sure the media is good, and not the cause of the failures?
read or write failures?
 
j-sta said:
just like with 2000, XP, Vista, etc, some program installs create registry keys.
finding these will not be fun, not to mention there is no 100% guarantee putting these keys back into the registry after a reinstall will work.

if files are failing to copy with a repair, are you sure the media is good, and not the cause of the failures?
read or write failures?
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Copy protection failures so a sort of write failure I guess but the CD is new and without a single scratch. Burnt from an iso.
 
I know I had a lot of file corruption issues when my on-board RAID controller died.

try hooking cd-rom up to the same channel the HDD is on?
try a different IDE cable maybe?

a copy protection error sounds almost more like an error reading from the disc. Possibly bad optical drive?
 
j-sta said:
I know I had a lot of file corruption issues when my on-board RAID controller died.

try hooking cd-rom up to the same channel the HDD is on?
try a different IDE cable maybe?

a copy protection error sounds almost more like an error reading from the disc. Possibly bad optical drive?
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As far as switching cables n stuff . . . lap-top.

I will try another optical drive though.
 
ahh.. that would do it.

crap, I apparently missed the part where you said that. hah. brain fart.

hmmm....
 
Try running Memtest x86+ as well. I remember reading an article that says if you're getting file copy errors in Windows setup you might be having RAM issues.
 
+1 for memtest86

File transfers go "source -> through memory -> destination"

If the memory is screwed up you get "good file -> through memory -> fucked up file"
 
Memtest passed. Was able to google arround, transfer the files from the CD to a new directory on the hard drive and run the setup files from there so go fig o_O. It seems to work now and I'm installing windows updates finally to hopefully fix this issue from happening again ( the OS was never updated once since the initial purchase : )
 
Hard and Confused said:
It seems to work now and I'm installing windows updates finally to hopefully fix this issue from happening again ( the OS was never updated once since the initial purchase : )
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If the system never has internet access and its used for a really custom purpose, you may not want to update it since the updates could break something. If it is ever used for internet access then I guess it's a good idea to try though.
 
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