
- #WINDOWS 98 USB STARTUP DISK HOW TO#
- #WINDOWS 98 USB STARTUP DISK INSTALL#
- #WINDOWS 98 USB STARTUP DISK SERIAL#
All the newer computers will allow a boot from the CD directly. I wish I could give you a complete example, but all of my info on this sort of thing was turned in long ago.
#WINDOWS 98 USB STARTUP DISK HOW TO#
When you manage to get the DOS startup disk running properly and are able to access the CD drive, simply change directory to the CD drive and type SETUP. This article contains information that shows you how to fix Windows 98 Startup Error both (manually) and (automatically), In addition, this article.
#WINDOWS 98 USB STARTUP DISK SERIAL#
Other features in Windows 98 include: Support for Universal Serial Bus (USB), which makes it easy to plug in new devices. Perhaps the info in the second document will be of help. Windows 98 also provides a 32-bit file allocation table (FAT) that allows you to have a single-partition disk drive larger than 2 Gbytes.

More info can be found here:Īs Flooby pointed out to me a while back, though Win 98SE disks are supposed to be bootable, evidently not all are.
#WINDOWS 98 USB STARTUP DISK INSTALL#
Startup disk windows 98 Microsoft Windows Boot Disk. There was a CD lying around with Windows 98 SE on it, though the CD is very old so I can't really install from it. Thanks to Ed Jablonowski from doubutsu-no-mori-e-as-voip.cloud for creating these disks. Download the diskette image you need, and if you need assistance creating a bootable diskette from this image, visit the how-to page. MSCDEX.EXE must be listed with appropriate parameters in an AUTOEXEC.BAT file, also in the root directory. These are the Windows 98 boot disk images available from AllBootDisks. Depending on the interface you have with your CD ROM, you will have either an ATAPI driver or a SCSI driver that must be in a statement of the form DEVICE= statement in a CONFIG.SYS file in the disk root directory. Click Start to format the USB drive and copy the boot files. Browse to the unzipped windows 1998 boot files. It’s a really bad idea to install Win98 raw on a computer, and modern computers can’t use it anyway. Select Quick Format and Create a DOS startup disk. With Win 95 and Win 98 it is necessary to have a bootable DOS start up disk that also has the CD ROM extensions specifically a CD ROM device driver and also MSCDEX to add the disk to the drives DOS can access. Answer (1 of 11): I won’t spend a lot of time on this.Joseph Danko has the right answer.

Unfortunately, Windows disks earlier than Win 98SE are not bootable.
