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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1428)	6/26/1998 12:59:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (3) of 14778

The Zeus Machine.....Win98 Instalation Status The machine now has a working copy of Win95 on the primary IDE drive and a working copy on the secondary IDE drive. In addition the secondary IDE drive has two hidden partitions, each with an older copy of the installation of Win95. There is a working copy of Win95 on the first SCSI drive and a working copy of Win98 on the second SCSI drive. Procedure I picked up a full version of Win98 as I wanted a clean installation. $179 at Comp USA. That is quite a bit more than the version available at ESC with the purchase of a mobo or harddisc. I prepared the second SCSI drive using Partition Magic. I formatted the drive FAT 32 and set the partition active. I then set the mobo AMI bios to CDROM..Floppy..SCSI boot sequence. I wanted to see if the Win98 CDROM was bootable. I Then set the Adaptec SCSI select bios to boot target ID 2. I wanted the SCSI ID 2 drive to be the C drive. I put the Win98 boot floppy in the A drive and the Win98 CDROM in the CDROM drive. The machine passed on the CD and went to the floppy. The screen defaulted to CDROM installation so I accepted. The drivers on the boot disc proved adequate for CDROM installation. The install process indicated that I already had an OS and suggested I quit. There was an option to continue so I chose continue. Even the Compaq Deskpro Win 95 conversion/installation had indicated that an OS existed..I had just formatted the harddrive and there was no OS. I think Compaq embeds something somewhere. The installation went well. It saved my old system files which bothered me a bit. I was hoping it was not saving all the Win95 system files from all of my installations. The installation finished and then booted. The machine froze. I waited five minutes and gave up. Back to the bios to boot from the primary IDE drive with a working version of Win95. What shows up? Win 98! loading for the first time. It finds everything and starts making music. This is NOT what I wanted. Who knows what oddities were now incorporated into the OS. Also, my preference was for a clean new load. My fear was that Win 98 had infested all of my Win95 installations, maybe even the ones on hidden partitions. Back to the bios to boot off the secondary IDE drive with last nights copy. Relief! She booted to last nights Win95. Back to Partition Magic to reinstall last nights version of Win 95 on the primary IDE drive. All is fine. Once again I have a working Win95 OS on the primary and secondary drives. Win 98 is completely gone. Second Try The side panels are still off of the case. I pulled the power cable and the data cable off the two IDE drives and one of the SCSI drives. If Win98 can find these drives I am giving up and buying a DELL! This time the installation worked. The sound and video drivers did not load. I had to install the drivers from the CD's that were provided with the cards. The sound card was a little tricky. First I had to delete the device and then reinstall. Matrox install also had a problem. It froze during the installation. I updated the driver through the device manager and then it worked....except I have no virtual resolution anymore:( Most likely the new Matrox Win98 drivers will put me back in business with virtual resolution. I shut down and plugged the other drives back in. Everything works as it did before. Now I can boot Win95 from IDE primary, IDE secondary and SCSI ID1. Win 98 boots from SCSI ID 2. The next step is to use Partition Magic to clone the Win98 installation to the SCSI ID 1 drive. Zeuspaul

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