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I had to reformat my Quantum hdd becos I suspected it was in areal bad shape.
Then I started reinstallling Win98SE using the startup disk. On typing set up
at the command prompt, the setup window came up; all was well up to this
stage. At the "Preparing to run Win98 setup" stage, the progress indicator
went up to 90% and remained there forever. I moved the mouse and the pointer
moved ok; it meant it hadn't hang up so I waited but nothing happened. I
turned it off and put it back on and started reinstallation afresh. This time
the indicator went up to 50% and stopped there. I did it again and it stopped
at 31%, then 28% etc. I see a downward trend in the installation progress.
What does this mean? Could it be a pointer to a dying hdd? Why exactly is the
operating system behaving like that? I would appreciate some good help from
you, friends. Thanx.
I had to reformat my Quantum hdd becos I suspected it was in areal bad shape.
Then I started reinstallling Win98SE using the startup disk. On typing set up
at the command prompt, the setup window came up; all was well up to this
stage. At the "Preparing to run Win98 setup" stage, the progress indicator
went up to 90% and remained there forever. I moved the mouse and the pointer
moved ok; it meant it hadn't hang up so I waited but nothing happened. I
turned it off and put it back on and started reinstallation afresh. This time
the indicator went up to 50% and stopped there. I did it again and it stopped
at 31%, then 28% etc. I see a downward trend in the installation progress.
What does this mean? Could it be a pointer to a dying hdd? Why exactly is the
operating system behaving like that? I would appreciate some good help from
you, friends. Thanx.