Disk did not work. Here is what I have done.

ASUS K7M
15g Western Digital Hard Drive
52x CD-Rom
AMD Athlon 800
64 Ram

In addition to "fdisk /mbr" I removed the cmos battery. Put it back in and loaded original values in BIOS.

Using windows98se startup disk which I made from my machine (it has worked before). Got a disk I/O error when trying to read disk. Eventually had to replace diskette drive.

Booted up machine with startup disk...starting computer with cd-rom support.

fdisk...enabling large disk support
delete partition...delete primary partition
created dos partition...created primary dos partition (using maximum available size and making it active.

restarted computer with cd-rom support
d:\format c: /s (takes about 5 to 8 sec. before asking to proceed)
when done...says system transferred. directory of c:\ now has one visible file...command com

Then I copy cd-rom contents to c:\ by doing this...
c:\md win98
c:\cd win98
c:\win98\copy e:\win98\*.*
when this is done
c:\win98\setup
"setup is now going to perform a routine check...press enter to continue"

I have notice that the directory structure is scanned much quicker than the others listed.

Then I either get a blank screen with a flashing cursor in the upper left corner or the error.."standard mode: fault in ms-dos extender"

What gives? I did do a scanreg from dos and it told me that himem is not loaded. It is on the disk. How do I fix this? Detailed instructions please.

Thanks again.