{"id":187,"date":"2004-10-19T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/win98-oem-version-setup-complains-that-existing-partitions-are-invalid\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:11:18","slug":"win98-oem-version-setup-complains-that-existing-partitions-are-invalid","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/win98-oem-version-setup-complains-that-existing-partitions-are-invalid\/","title":{"rendered":"Win98 OEM Version Setup Complains that Existing Partitions are Invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are installing&nbsp;Win98&nbsp;OEM version&nbsp;from the CD&nbsp;by choosing <em>Run Setup from CD<\/em> then it may complain that existing partitions are invalid and must be formatted.<\/p>\r\n  <p>To work around this, choose <em>Boot With CD support<\/em> instead. Then, when at the DOS prompt, change to the CD-ROM drive (e.g. D:),&nbsp;type <strong>setup<\/strong> and press ENTER.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are installing&nbsp;Win98&nbsp;OEM version&nbsp;from the CD&nbsp;by choosing Run Setup from CD then it may complain that existing partitions are invalid and must be formatted. To work around this, choose Boot With CD support instead. Then, when at the DOS prompt, change to the CD-ROM drive (e.g. D:),&nbsp;type setup and press ENTER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1781],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127,2138],"class_list":["post-187","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-9x-me","lsvr_kba_tag-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-9x-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/187\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}