Hi Guys, i hope anyone can help me out there with this mystery...I was given a laptop with the comment, if you can fix it you can have it..what a challenge, so i went for it, wish i hadn't now.
Its a IBM thinkpad 240 2609 with an external fdd and external usb cd/rom drive. It had win98 loaded on to it and the origional problem was everytime it was booted up, it would get to the win98 bootup screen and show a message not enough room to continue....it would then go off and reboot again and again still with the same message...so i thought i would go into safe mode and see if i could rectify it...to no avail....couldn't load tools from a usb cd rom in safe mode...so i decided the best way was to clean it off and load windows again...Did all the right things about partioning making it active on a fat 32 system..formatted endless times..it shows 100% available disk space as 11507mb..everything went ok until i tried to set up....went to my cd/rom drive letter and typed setup..and the message i keep getting is.."windows setup requires executable program size to be at least 442368 bytes to run".....i investigated this in microsoft help and it said it was either a virus....it couldn't be that it has not been used on the internet before...or you have a hardware problem....i have partioned the drive in many ways...fron splitting into logical drives and all sorts but it is still giving me the same message...the cd/rom drive is working ok because i copied the instal files from the win98 disk into the hard drive....even tried setup from there but still the same message...can anyone please help me with this...as i've not got a lot of hair left to pull out.....Regards ...Ken
Its a IBM thinkpad 240 2609 with an external fdd and external usb cd/rom drive. It had win98 loaded on to it and the origional problem was everytime it was booted up, it would get to the win98 bootup screen and show a message not enough room to continue....it would then go off and reboot again and again still with the same message...so i thought i would go into safe mode and see if i could rectify it...to no avail....couldn't load tools from a usb cd rom in safe mode...so i decided the best way was to clean it off and load windows again...Did all the right things about partioning making it active on a fat 32 system..formatted endless times..it shows 100% available disk space as 11507mb..everything went ok until i tried to set up....went to my cd/rom drive letter and typed setup..and the message i keep getting is.."windows setup requires executable program size to be at least 442368 bytes to run".....i investigated this in microsoft help and it said it was either a virus....it couldn't be that it has not been used on the internet before...or you have a hardware problem....i have partioned the drive in many ways...fron splitting into logical drives and all sorts but it is still giving me the same message...the cd/rom drive is working ok because i copied the instal files from the win98 disk into the hard drive....even tried setup from there but still the same message...can anyone please help me with this...as i've not got a lot of hair left to pull out.....Regards ...Ken
