First post, by appiah4
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This strange issue is driving me nuts.
Lucky Star 6P2BX2 board with Wimbios patched BIOS for HDD up to 128G
Pentium III 450 Slot 1
2x 128MB PC133 CL7 RAM
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
Creative SB Live Value CT4780
Seagate 7200.8 Barraccuda 80G IDE
NEC 16x DVD-RW
USB keyboard
Partitioned the harddrive with gparted live cd and set a 4gb primary Fat32 as bootable.
Ran WinMe setup and it formatted the primary partition.
Ran scandisk and found empty space misreported. Fixed it.
Went to black screen, Copying files needed for setup message and hangs.
I said wat and immediately blamed Me so I tried installing 98SE instead.
Setup found the formatted primary partition, scanned it and ran scandisk reporting there were issues with the FAT so it would reveet latest changes to prior state.
Went to black screen, Copying files needed for setup message and hangs.
Booted WinMe command prompt ran fdisk /mbr then fdisk to delete all partitions and repartition in case gparted fucked up.
Tried to reinstall, same issue.
Booted WinMe command prompt to manually format C: only to find the 4G partition shows up as 3.2G after format and realized it might be a cluster size issue.. Ran fdisk to wipe partitions AGAIN and reduce primary partition to 2G.
Too tired so went to bed.
Most issues online seem to be caused by boot virus protection, people are advised to turn this off. My Award bios only has the Virus Warning option and its set to disabled (possibly works ass backwards abd I should enable it?). I will also try copyinf the files to the HDD to try installing from there.
Open to all suggestions..