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How do i reinstall 98se

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by Hive, 2005/12/17.

  1. 2005/12/17
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    Hive Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I know the answer is in the threads somewhere, but I am on slow machine (backup) and gave up searching.

    My problem: I upgraded with MS's latest and when I restarted the machine, I find I cannot start windows as I am missing shlwapi.dll, which appears to be and Explorer .dll that is required.

    I have a 98sSE boot disk and the 98SE cd in it drive but cannot (forgot how) get the system to reload windows. (I seem to be in a permanent regressive state.) I cannot figure out how to use the boot disk to get to the cd and reinstall Windows. Aaarrrgghhh!

    Can someone please help this village idiot with some simple, do this then this instructions?

    Merci!
     
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    Hive,
    the CD should be bootable which means that you are preventing that by using the floppy.

    Remove the floppy but leave the CD in the tray. Restart the computer and if the boot order is correct, the computer will boot from the CD.

    If Windows restarts, a detour into BIOS is necessary to set the boot order to Floppy > CD-ROM > HDD or CD-ROM > Floppy > HDD. The important thing is that the HDD is last.

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    Start the PC and start tapping Del (or whatever your PC uses to access the Bios) then set the CD drive as first boot device. Save and exit the Bios settings. Place the Win98SE CD in the drive and install over the top of the previous install. Install to C:\Windows, not C:\Windows.000. This will save any data on the hard drive.
     
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    Cannot locate proper key.

    that you suggest to get me into BIOS.

    Is there some way to access the cd from safe mode or another choice when it boots from the floppy?
     
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    Usually you just press the Del key at bootup to access the Bios. Some PCs use a different key such as F1, F10 or other.

    Access/Enter Motherboard BIOS
     
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    Hive Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Update results

    Thanks for assistance. Here are results of efforts: I decided to by pass some ofthe above and get really basic. I let machine boot to floopy, jumped to the E drive and the 98se disk, whereupon I went to win98 set-up and ran it. Voila, back to normal, well maybe not exactly.

    After 98se was reinstalled, I opened Outlook, offline, to search for some information and got the "illegal operation window" again. I then noted the "details" showed the problem was with the missing .dll file that started the whole business, "shl... .dll something.

    I may bring this up in another (appropriate) forum - odd problem that maybe I can paste a clean version into the OS...

    Anyway, thanks, and happy week-end, this New Year time.
     
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    That procedure seems to be correct but, When you did boot the machine to the Floppy did you do it from a power off state with a few minutes wait before rebooting ?

    If not then some things may have been in memory and will not get overwritten properly.

    BillyBob
     
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