Not running ScanDisk when you install Windows 9x

By default, when you run SETUP.EXE to install Windows, the setup program will
want to run ScanDisk before it does anything else. And while running ScanDisk
might seem like a good idea, sometimes you need to avoid doing so. In
particular, installing Windows on a very large hard disk will probably make
ScanDisk crash (apparently it doesn't handle multi-hundred-gigabyte drives
too well), so you'll probably need to bypass ScanDisk in any case. You can do
this by adding the /is switch to the setup command. In other words, instead
of just typing "setup" as you normally would, you'd type this instead:

setup /is

This switch tells setup to bypass ScanDisk, and works on Windows 95, 98, and
Me.

Note that this switch is just one of the more common switches that Windows
9x's setup program can accept. A complete list of setup's command-line
switches is documented in Microsoft Knowledge Base (MSKB) article Q186111,
which can be read on the web at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186111