Windows Precopy not found

**loninappleton** · 12-01-2005, 05:03 PM

I have a new motherboard and have retrieved my previous hard drive with all my stuff on it to install.

The drive installed ok and everything is recotnized except
my dsl modem through the ethernet connection on the
board.

I have done the preparation for dsl with the guide from
my ISP. When I'm done with that a request is made for the Windows system disk. I put that in and it defaults to
c:\wondows\system\precopy and cannot locate the
file called "protman.dos".

So i used find to locate it but still no luck.

Then I inspected for precoppy subdirectory on both
the c drive and the 98se install disk and could still not
find it.

What is up with that?

I'm currently using an older drive that I set up "blind"
by just running everything on the motherboard install
cd with some other components but no dsk hooked up.

The driver stuff from the motherboard disk is called
the Rhine familiy something. Are there updates needed for that that Windows 98se can find and install?

Why all the headache around this 'precopy' missing file
now?

Chevy · 12-02-2005, 09:00 AM

Point the install (where it defaulted to the precopy folder) to (cd):\win98 (where cd is the drive letter of your cd-rom). The install should find the file in one of the cab's in that folder.

**loninappleton** · 12-02-2005, 10:58 AM

Ok. I'll try this shortly... got a backup job going.

12-01-2005, 05:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
loninappleton TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 732 OS: Win2k, XP	Windows Precopy not found I have a new motherboard and have retrieved my previous hard drive with all my stuff on it to install. The drive installed ok and everything is recotnized except my dsl modem through the ethernet connection on the board. I have done the preparation for dsl with the guide from my ISP. When I'm done with that a request is made for the Windows system disk. I put that in and it defaults to c:\wondows\system\precopy and cannot locate the file called "protman.dos". So i used find to locate it but still no luck. Then I inspected for precoppy subdirectory on both the c drive and the 98se install disk and could still not find it. What is up with that? I'm currently using an older drive that I set up "blind" by just running everything on the motherboard install cd with some other components but no dsk hooked up. The driver stuff from the motherboard disk is called the Rhine familiy something. Are there updates needed for that that Windows 98se can find and install? Why all the headache around this 'precopy' missing file now?

12-02-2005, 09:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
Chevy Retired Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Notlob Posts: 5,452 OS: Vista Ultimate My System	Point the install (where it defaulted to the precopy folder) to (cd):\win98 (where cd is the drive letter of your cd-rom). The install should find the file in one of the cab's in that folder.

12-02-2005, 10:58 AM	#3 (permalink)
loninappleton TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 732 OS: Win2k, XP	Ok. I'll try this shortly... got a backup job going.