Why not use fdisk. Remove ALL drives, and then recreate them. This will erase the disks fat tables and start afresh, leaving you with a virginal disk. You will then be able to boot direct from the cd hope this helps Aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: Sam S Man To: Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Any one who still have DOS 6 & above please help!! > Hi! > > Please remember the HD is just formatted ie blank. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tim Hamel > To: > Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 6:00 AM > Subject: Re: [OT] Any one who still have DOS 6 & above please help!! > > > > Ahh...I remembe the days of the dreaded "SU0168" error message. Ok, what > you > > want to do is rename win.com to win.old. You will also want to rename > > version.exe to version.old. Once these files are renamed, there shouldn't > be > > an OS check. > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Tim Hamel > > > > In a message dated 11/21/99 1:57:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, > > samsman@TM.NET.MY writes: > > > > > I'm using win98 SE OEM FULL VERSION. I've refomatted my harddisks. > Running > > > setup again with the startup disk does nothing but giving the annoying > > error > > > message, which says cannot continue due the operating system is already > > > installed. Forward the problem to local MS dist., they only sent me the > > > setup.txt, which already comes with the setup CD and I have read and > tried > > a > > > few times but still getting the error message (SU0168). > > > >