The Dark Knight Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 Hi, i have the setup files of windows 98 2nd edition. i want to make it bootable and burn it on a cd. HELP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PseudoRandomDragon Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 Translation: I just downloaded Windows from the internet and I don't know how to make it a bootable CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted June 12, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 12, 2004 LOL, use a cd burner ? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooodi Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 if u have it saved as an iso or any other type of packed cd.. make sure u burn "Disc at once". (assuming this is a backed up windows 98 cd) thats it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpugeniusmv Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 not all windows 98 cds sold by microsoft were bootable. i'm not sure if the same is true for the 'SE'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PureEdit Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 Make an image file of a 98 boot disk and use nero to burn it as the bootable file of a CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PseudoRandomDragon Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 not all windows 98 cds sold by microsoft were bootable. i'm not sure if the same is true for the 'SE'... Ummm, that is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfador Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 Ummm, that is wrong. Why is that wrong? My Win98 isn't bootable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offroadaaron Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 r u sure its not the upgrade version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
area91 Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 I know all upgrade disks were not bootable from CD, were the full versions bootable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfador Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 r u sure its not the upgrade version It's an upgrade, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PseudoRandomDragon Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 My Win98SE CD is bootable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xplatinum Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 I've never heard of such a thing (booting from a win98(se) CD). Everywhere I've worked we do it the following way... BOOT the PC with a 95/98 BOOTDISK and press F5 (to skip directly to the prompt) ASSUMING that you haven't formated the C: drive -- Format c: /s /q (for a quickformat and copy systemfiles to boot) REMOVE the bootdisk and let your PC boot normally, you will end up in a prompt. GO in C: and do md win98 to create a directory called win98 on the C: (c:\win98) GO in your cdrom drive (cd d:) and enter the win98 directory (cd win98) TYPE copy *.* C:\win98 and wait until its done. AFTER go back to C:\win98 and type setup you will now enter the setup of win98 The reason why you copy the files to the HD first is for one simple reason -- whenever windows needs files to install anything drivers the setup files will be on your disk. No more asking for the CD since you installed it from there. Tadam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffra Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 Not all versions were bootable, mine definitely wasnt. So i just made a bootable cdrom using a win98 startup disk in nero, then copied over the setup files. now i just adapt from this guide http://flyakite.msfnhosting.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PseudoRandomDragon Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 You can definately boot from a Win98SE CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xplatinum Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 Personally, even if my 98se was bootable, I would still copy the content of the win98 folder into my HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PseudoRandomDragon Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 Ditto. So annoying when you do something simple like make a network change and it prompts for teh CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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