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um... now you're scaring me. I'm a guy, was under the impression you were.... get away from me now you strange, strange person you. just kidding.

Okay then its ez shit, make a bootdisk after you back everything up ( if you dont already have one, you should) I think in all 98's theres a restart in dos option when you take shut down... When you get to the c prompt

it'll look something like this C:/>
write format c: (or whatever drive you're formatting eg e:. f: etc...)
like this
C:/>format c:
after this some regular diagnosis will go through, and you will come back to the c prompt after its finished.... now you can restart...
with the bootdisk in the a drive...
it should automatically give you a menu of options....
select "start my computer with cd rom support".... after that it will give you the different drive letters , (it will change so read what it says )....
pop in your WIn 98 cd in your cd drive
go
C:/>cd "the letter of your cd drive":
after this type setup:

"the letter of your cd drive":/>setup
this will kick you into another diagnostic (scandisc) and after verifying everything is as it should be, the installation program will start up... thats all just following instructions....



[This message has been edited by Seabass (edited 12-26-2000).]

I know your a guy flinfman..so am I *wink, wink*

hehehe just kidding

So that's ALL I need to know Seabass? I've never formatted so I'm a newbie when it comes to that.

As a matter of fact, I'm a newbie with almost all PC tech probs.

I think thats all you have to do
see what the flin man says, maybe I missed something, Im writing kind of franticly, so it's very possible I skipped a step

Ok.

And by the way I'd like to tell you guys I just looked in the registry and there are no keys relating to BGII and it still doesn't work.

Just so we're clear on that. But I'll give my friend a call when I get home to get any more of that info, plus he may have some ideas on this problem.

Hey I found this in the autorun.ini file on the BGII CD:

[English]
lInstall=INSTALL
lUninstall=PLAY

Maybe if I burn a copy of the BGII Cd and replace the autorun line with this it'll work:

[English]
lInstall=INSTALL
lUninstall=INSTALL

well look at that
Im not junior anymore
crazy

After 100 posts I think it goes up to Member..or something like that.

It's 30 posts when you get member status. And good deal; see how that works and tell us please.

yo its well worth a shot.... I herd there was some way to install if you transfered the files from the cds to your hard drive...
like
c:\bg\cd1
c:\bg\cd2
c:\bg\cd3
c:\bg\cd4

And then you run the install
I think thatd save you a cd if you tried

Hmm..hell I guess it's worth a try.

that four folder install was the key for Planescape:Torment for getting around that blasted memory leak that Bioware never friggin' fixed (the bums). From what I remember you created one folder per cd and installed them accordingly during the primary install; not sure of the specifics though. If someone else remembers please post it.

I'll try it later..right now I'm too tired and lazy.

Fair enough. Take a breather and relax amigo.

Yeah I'm too depressed about this whole situation right now.

flinfman and Seabass i'm not that technical as you two and i would not have posted a reply ,but at the rate you two were posting it SEEM to me it was snowballing down a hill.If i step on anybodys toes i regret it.

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(I would betray the world before i let the world betray me.) Chao Chao 192 a.d.

[This message has been edited by Weasel (edited 12-26-2000).]

wut

It's not that it was snowballing it's more like we were thinking along the same lines and just posting that fast because we were trying to solve Red's problem. I can't imagine how fast it would have been if we were all on AIM or something. LOL.