More Install Problems With 98! :(

[nytmaremuise]

:curse:

Well, All Going Fine, Windows 98 installs, but after i put in the product key and the comp starts to boot up then add additiuonal settings, it says please insert windows 98se into cd rom and theres a bunch of filed that try to get installed but the computer cant find em on the cd, since i dont have the 98se i only have 98 i figured ill skip all the files and hope for the best then try to fix em, anywho when i did that my monitor was screwey (no monitor drivers i think) in my computer or anythin else there wasnt even a cd rom drive listed(e drive) my ethernet card isnt being recognized either so i reformatted the computer and put windows 98 back on, im now at the part where its saying cannot find files on win98se again and i left it there to see if anybody knew any solutions for this problem? do i need the win98se disk? cause a few friends of mine used this 98 disk before me and they dont have any problems, id just put xp on it but its only a 2 gig harddrive and it wont take it, please?! anyone?!

[Idnew]

Are you using the product key for Win98 and not the Win98SE? You have to use the product key of the windows version that you are using.

[jarred1234]

Well I had this same problem when taking a hard drive from another comuter and then putting it in mine so the computer itself had 2 OS's. What I did was format the other hard drive in MS-DOS in Safemode and then the problem was fixed. However you might have to start up in MS-Dos to do that and be using another drive to format the C:/ drive.

[nytmaremuise]

yeah im using the product key for windows 98
like i said 3-4 of my friends used this disk previousely before mine and none of em had any other problems, computers 12 years old maybe its slowly on its way out

[Idnew]

Did you use a 98SE boot disk? If so get a Win98 boot disk and fdisk/mbr and format again. Somehow it sounds like you used something with SE.

[nytmaremuise]

i used a 98 boot disk i woulda noticed that first thing
thats why this is confusing the hell out of me because none of it is makin ne sense to me lol

[Idnew]

Did you do the fdisk/mbr?