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Reformatting the hard drive

Started by DSTEADMAN , Mar 23 2004 12:36 AM

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Posted 23 March 2004 - 12:36 AM

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i have finished reformatting my hard drive and now i'm ready to start installing windows. but when i have the right cd in the disk drive and the windows 98 startup in the A drive, and i type, "setup", while being in the right drive, i get the message, "This program cannot be run in DOS mode". so is my computer completely busted or what??
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Posted 23 March 2004 - 09:52 AM

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When supplied with your computer, some versions of Windows require that you type oemsetup.
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Posted 23 March 2004 - 02:24 PM

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no matter what drive i'm in, all i get now is "bad command or file name"
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