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wrong drive requested for win98 cd rom

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by 79camero rs, 2005/09/09.

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    79camero rs

    79camero rs Inactive Thread Starter

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    when I reinstalled win 98 SE I had one hard drive. I installed my d: drive but windows keeps looking for 98 CD in d: not E:, how can I change the system to look for it in e:
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    If you have enough drive space, I'd copy the entire Win98 folder off the cd to the drive. Can then change this reg setting so will will look for the files locally. Shouls also be able to use this reg setting to tell it to look on E..

    Change cab file location
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup
     
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    Zander

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    Are you familiar with Regedit? If so open it and find this key.

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

    Look in the right pane for an entry named SourcePath. Double click it and change the data value to the letter of the drive you want it to use. Should do the trick.
     
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    79camero rs

    If I understand correctly you have a D: drive.

    If this is indeed true I would copy the Win98 folder on the CDROM to D:

    Then as suggested change the Source path to match.

    That way if something should happen that you need to format C: it would not destory the Windows setup files.

    And also suggest that you MOVE anything that realy needs to be save ( like picture files, downloaded stuff ) over to the D: drive. It may take a bit of work but well worth it in the long run.

    BillyBob
     
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