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Can't install windows 98 on gateway laptop

Started by UncleG , May 18 2004 01:50 AM

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UncleG
Posted 18 May 2004 - 01:50 AM

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I formatted the hard drive on a gateway solo2300 laptop with a swapable floppy & cd-rom and when I run the setup floppy,and try to switch to the cd-rom, it tells me that drive a is no longer valid Does anyone a fix for this problem? HELP!!!!!!!!!


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Posted 18 May 2004 - 07:04 AM

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http://answers.googl...dview?id=109347
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Posted 10 June 2004 - 10:55 PM

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you need to boot from a 98 startup disk if you can't you need to change you boot up options in your cmos to boot from a: drive
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