Windows 98 question

[SuckMeBeautiful]

I have an older Packard Bell pentium 200 with 32 MB RAM running Windows 98 (not SE)

I have hardly NOTHING on the hard drive, and have defragmented it ... now I am trying to re-install OFFICE 97 Standard but after an hour it is still only 39% done ...

If I give it the three finger salute, it says Office setup is not responding, but if I cancel out and go back to setup, it is moving, just very very slow ..

could anybody offer me any suggestions what may be causing it to go so slow, and how I might fix it ??

I have nothing running in the task manager.

Any help at all would be appreciated

[Fletch XXX]

are you posting on the board with that thing?

[SuckMeBeautiful]

no

I have another machine

that machine is a second machine ... I want to set it up just for common surfing and M$ Word Etc

it is not connected to the net as of yet

[whee]

No antivirus or firewall shit running?
Damn... No idea. I sugest you re-install windows and try again.
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[SothArtist]

I had a similar prob to this on my old laptop. It ended up being the HD, which I had to replace.

[whee]

Could also be a bad cd of office or similar shit
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[SuckMeBeautiful]

Hmmmm ... any way to check that before I go replacing Hard drives ?

[SuckMeBeautiful]

Originally posted by whee
Could also be a bad cd of office or similar shit
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I have installed with the same CD at least 4 times prior

[hyper]

pull the hard drive .. install it on your newer computer

load office

re-install in old POS

[SothArtist]

Originally posted by SuckMeBeautiful
Hmmmm ... any way to check that before I go replacing Hard drives ?

I reformatted a few times and scan disk. Everytime I ran scandisk more and more bad sectors kept popping up. It got to the point I couldn't even format it. Maybe scandisk will tell you something.

[SuckMeBeautiful]

scan disk comes up fine ... no bad sectors