I'm attempting to burn a boot disk for Windows 98SE, and I cant seem to get the CD-Rom to read anything, let alone boot from a disk. The only burned disk I can get it to read within windows is one I burned without the Joliet filesystem. But I cant seem to figure out a way to burn an ISO without it. Am I missing something? Should I just get a new CD-ROM drive?
Hi, I'm not sure if can help really you, but general speaking, all common drives should be able to read ISO9660+Joliet.
Maybe your CD-ROM drive cannot stand the type of CD-R, or maybe the ISO is a mixed-mode type which your old drive can't read.
I had a similar issue once. My old Philips SCSI CD-ROM drive was unable to read a CD-ROM with audio tracks and data tracks.
Ironically, the even older Mitsumi LU005S single-speed drive had no issue with it.
If you can't get it work, try the following: Create an plain ISO9660 CD-ROM image without Joliet an insert the Win98 files.
Especially DRIVERS and WIN98. Then, try to add a 1.44MB floppy image of the Win98 or WinME start-up disk.
Then write "burn" the image to the CD-R. If it boots in your PC afterwards, go to the letter of the CD-Drive (D: for example)
and run the Win98 setup from the WIN98 folder (or just type D:\WIN98\SETUP).
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You didn't mention how you prepare and burn the CD or which software you use. But many tools for this have an odd option: they let you create a Joliet filesystem only, which is invalid. Joliet always goes in conjunction ISO9660, so you need to select both. Might very well be your problem.
wrote:Hi, I'm not sure if can help really you, but general speaking, all common drives should be able to read ISO9660+Joliet. Maybe yo […]
Hi, I'm not sure if can help really you, but general speaking, all common drives should be able to read ISO9660+Joliet.
Maybe your CD-ROM drive cannot stand the type of CD-R, or maybe the ISO is a mixed-mode type which your old drive can't read.
I had a similar issue once. My old Philips SCSI CD-ROM drive was unable to read a CD-ROM with audio tracks and data tracks.
Ironically, the even older Mitsumi LU005S single-speed drive had no issue with it.
If you can't get it work, try the following: Create an plain ISO9660 CD-ROM image without Joliet an insert the Win98 files.
Especially DRIVERS and WIN98. Then, try to add a 1.44MB floppy image of the Win98 or WinME start-up disk.
Then write "burn" the image to the CD-R. If it boots in your PC afterwards, go to the letter of the CD-Drive (D: for example)
and run the Win98 setup from the WIN98 folder (or just type D:\WIN98\SETUP).
Yeah after doiong a bit more investigating, it seems to be able to read Joliet, it just doesnt like something about how I"m burning the Isos. Very odd.
I'm trying again to make a bootable CD with your suggestions. I'll let you know how it goes.
