First post, by CU_AMiGA
Yo! my windows 98se floppy boot disk got currupted! anyone know where i can download it?
Yo! my windows 98se floppy boot disk got currupted! anyone know where i can download it?
http://bootdisk.com has loads of 'em!
they dont quite have wot i m looking for 🙁 i m talking about the boot up floppy disk that comes equiped with the windows 98se cd package itself. when you boot it, it gives you the option of intsalling win98, or boot up with or without cd rom drive support.
I thought the OEM disks on the site were the correct ones? Dont know havent used a proper MS disk in years. I just a generic boot disk and run setup manually that way you get the bonus of using switches to skip the scandisk before setup starts
If you have a working copy of Win98 you can always do the following
It doesnt need to be a win98 startup disk any dos disk will do
just boot
type d:
setup
or install
ps: the disk you want is on bootdisk
Guardian of the Sacred Five Terabyte's of Gaming Goodness
It's also better to format the HD to fat32 first and copy the cd contents to the HD, makes installs 10 times faster.
Something that I've been meaning to upload for EONS...
In this directory:
http://jasonwilliams400com.startlogic.com/sno … /Bootup_Images/
These files:
Disk_Imager_v1.1.txt
Disk_Imager_v1.1.zip
DR-DOS_v6.0_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
DR-DOS_v6.0_Upgrade_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
MS-DOS_v5.0_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
MS-DOS_v6.0_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
MS-DOS_v6.2_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
MS-DOS_v6.22_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
Windows_95_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
Windows_95_Build_B_Self-Extracting_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
Windows_98_Second_Edition_Self-Extracting_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
Windows_98SE_Bootup_CD_ISO.zip
The "Disk_Imager_v1.1.zip" DOS utility creates disk images of standard floppy disks, and was used to create all of the floppy disk images contained in the ZIPs in that directory.
The "Self-Extracting" ZIPs contain a DOS EXE that will automatically recreate a floppy, without having to use the "Disk Imager" utility (insert a non-write protected floppy, and then execute the DOS program EXE).
"Disk Imager" has options to either create a standard "IMG" binary image file, or a DOS self-extracting/recreating EXE to recreate the floppy with... which is the format of the files contained in those ZIPs.
The "Windows_98SE_Bootup_CD_ISO.zip is a standard bootable CD ISO image which can be burnt to a CD using your CD burning utility of choice.
I really don't remember what all I included and added to all of various floppies, but I *DO* remember that the "Windows_95_Build_B_Self-Extracting_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip" and "Windows_98SE_Bootup_CD_ISO.zip" ones included:
FDISK, FORMAT, MSD, SCANDISK, ETC...,
...and loaded HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.SYS, as well as the OAKCDROM and MSCDEX CD-ROM drivers.
Hope this is helpful for ya'll 😀
Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel
http://www.richnagel.net
P.S. Back in the day, I used the floppy created with the Windows_98_Second_Edition_Self-Extracting_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip quite extensively... mostly for wiping out a customer's hard drive in preparation for reinstalling Windows 98 SE:
1 - Bootup with floppy.
2 - Run FDISK and remove all partitions on the hard drive.
3 - Reboot (which of course, as detailed previously, loads the usual CD-ROM drivers).
4 - Insert the Windows 98 SE installation CD-ROM.
5 - Log onto the CD-ROM drive, and then run the Windows 98 SE installer.
(Edit) P.P.S. Here's a file listing of what is contained on the recreated bootup floppy contained in the Windows_98_Second_Edition_Self-Extracting_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip file (as well as the CD-ROM image contained in the Windows_98SE_Bootup_CD_ISO.zip file):
04/23/1999 05:22pm 15,252 ATTRIB.EXE
12/31/2000 07:00pm 37 AUTOEXEC.BAT
04/23/1999 05:22pm 28,096 CHKDSK.EXE
04/23/1999 05:22pm 93,890 COMMAND.COM
12/31/2000 07:00pm 114 CONFIG.SYS
04/23/1999 05:22pm 69,902 EDIT.COM
04/23/1999 05:22pm 10,790 EDIT.HLP
04/23/1999 05:22pm 20,574 FC.EXE
04/23/1999 05:22pm 63,916 FDISK.EXE
04/23/1999 05:22pm 49,575 FORMAT.COM
04/23/1999 05:22pm 33,191 HIMEM.SYS
04/23/1999 05:22pm 32,146 MEM.EXE
04/23/1999 05:22pm 25,473 MSCDEX.EXE
04/23/1999 05:22pm 166,023 MSD.EXE
03/24/1998 10:05pm 291,652 NDIAGS.EXE
03/24/1998 10:05pm 104,404 NDIAGS.HLP
04/23/1999 05:22pm 41,302 OAKCDROM.SYS
04/23/1999 05:22pm 143,818 SCANDISK.EXE
04/23/1999 05:22pm 7,332 SCANDISK.INI
04/23/1999 05:22pm 18,967 SYS.COM
05/30/1995 11:58am 10,880 TEAC_CDA.SYS
Contents of CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=A:\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:CDROM001
rem DEVICE=A:\TEAC_CDA.SYS /D:CDROM001 /P:220 /T:0 /S:4
Contents of AUTOEXEC.BAT:
@ECHO OFF
A:\MSCDEX /D:CDROM001 /V
Re: "TEAC_CDA.SYS": I had a BUNCH of customers who had those old Panasonic interface 4x CD-ROM drives <grin> 😀
Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel
http://www.richnagel.net