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In article <qqRIgGAeXh93Ew7h@frogmore6.demon.co.uk>
           Colin@frogmore6.demon.co.uk "Colin Price" writes:

>In article <BGD1N5IX+uFInlFHfCN9IrbUQ9JV@4ax.com>, Denis McMahon
><denis@pickaxe.demon.co.uk> writes
>>
>>I recently hgot a W98 2nd edition update CD from Microsoft. It didn't complete
>>the installation properly, and now I have a machine that seems unstable at
>>times, eg I have to de-install and re-install DUN every few days.
>>
>>I have tried re-installing the original W98 but it sees the later version and
>>won't re-install. I have tried to re-install the update but it says it can't
>>find the first edition files required.
>>
>>I really don't want to have to go back to the original 95 installation and
>>start again, any suggestions?
>>
>It sounds a little like the problems I had. I took the option to back up
>the original Win98, thinking I could always go back. However, it didn't
>complete installing, and it would neither re-install on top of this nor
>go back to the original. A quick peek with Partition Magic showed me
>that the FAT had somehow become corrupted during the whole process and
>was not repairable.

There is no real sollution, except the one below to this problem, over
time, no matter how carefull you are all BillyShit workstations in
normal use get corrupted, the more you install, deinstall etc the
quicker it bites.

On my multi-OS Thinkpad this is often, as I install and remove clients
software and generally use it to debug their problems. I have tried
all sorts of solutions and now for me there is only one.

Now each time I have to reinstall on this box, which has 14 partitions
mostly around 500Mb I install all the base software, applications
software and tools I normally use, and the drivers for everything
until I have a perfect copy.

One of the partitions is normally kept empty for nefarious and various
purposes, I then use GHOST to copy the newly installed partition to
the empty one. 400Mb GHOSTed to the same drive on a slow Thinkpad drive
takes 11 minutes with maximum compression and shrinks to around 180Mb,
this copy is parked to my big machine and written to CDR.

GHOST runs of a DOS boot disk so when a partition gets corrupted the
CD .img file is copied back to the empty partition from the CD, I
can't GHOST from a CD, I really must RTFM, and is then GHOSTed back
over the corrupt partition, This partition can be DOS, VFAT, HPFS,
NTFS GHOST doesn't care and I am back with a fresh system in about 9
minutes.

GHOST is available from the likes of Simply for around 15UKP, over the
past few months I have done all my OS's except Linux which GHOST can't
see on my machine. It is nice to feel safe when messing with the box.

{R}