I use self imaging boot disk images. Even works this way using Windows 10 and a USB floppy drive.

Are you sure the floppy drive and floppy disks are good?

Attached are a couple of the ones I use:

copying files ?

use something like rawrite or dd to write the whole image onto the floppy

weedeewee wrote on 2021-05-09, 20:54:

copying files ?

use something like rawrite or dd to write the whole image onto the floppy

What they said ^^^^^^^^

I keep getting errors such as what's attached. I want to say I've tried 5 or 6 different diskettes so far. And this happens on my USB floppy drive and an ide drive in my XP system.

Well this is the farthest I've gotten so far.. but still got errors.

Well... I guess I wasn't patient enough! The eighth(!) disk I tried worked! I guess I have that many bad disks. That's what I get for being cheap and buying used floppies on ebay instead of new old stock. Hey it was 50+ disks for 8 bucks!

Have you considered getting an OEM ISO of Win98 so you can boot from the CD and not bother with the floppy?

Repo Man11 wrote on 2021-05-09, 22:19:

Have you considered getting an OEM ISO of Win98 so you can boot from the CD and not bother with the floppy?

If I can't get this install started by this evening I may try that option.

I had the setup skip scandisk as the SSD reports free space incorrectly... and now it freezes right at the beginning of setup. Any tips?

omgfoz wrote on 2021-05-09, 22:21:

Repo Man11 wrote on 2021-05-09, 22:19:

Have you considered getting an OEM ISO of Win98 so you can boot from the CD and not bother with the floppy?

If I can't get this install started by this evening I may try that option.

If the computer in question can boot from bootable CDs, then there are any number of ways to make a bootable CD without having the actual OEM ISO.

The system us freezing at every step. I really want to install the OS on this SSD but should I give up? I've spent 5 hours on this and just get freezing every time I try something.

Also, it does not show the 90gb partition only the 10gb partition. Any clues why? I partitioned the drive on my windows 10 pc.

What motherboard are you using and how is the SSD connected?
it could be the motherboard doesn't support large hard drives or IDE/SATA adapter causing issues?

I'm using an IDE/SATA adapter. I was able to compete the install using the adapter with a spare 40gb HDD from my old PS3. The motherboard is an Asus A7V which should support the 120gb SSD. Anyway I gave up messing with the SSD for now. The install went perfectly once I swapped to the SATA HDD.

omgfoz wrote on 2021-05-09, 20:48:

I have tried several boot disk images, copying files on to various floppies, and my system WILL NOT boot from any of it! I keep having errors of all kinds. Even copying files to the floppies is encountering many problems such as errors copying various files. I am about to give up.

Is there a foolproof way to create a Windows 98SE boot disk so I can put a fresh install on a new hard drive?

Is the motherboard/PC is able to boot from CD?

The OEM Full version is bootable on it's own without floppy.

I think the machine cannot boot from CD. I have a copy of 98SE for computers without an OS but it will not boot from it.

when errors appear its probably the floppy drive dead
i was using one last week, it formated a floppy, and when copied an image it failed at 60%

changing the drive fixed it. probably there are capacitors in the drive that are dried up

BLockOUT wrote on 2021-05-11, 00:50:

when errors appear its probably the floppy drive dead
i was using one last week, it formated a floppy, and when copied an image it failed at 60%

changing the drive fixed it. probably there are capacitors in the drive that are dried up

I think the USB floppy drive I use with my windows 10 computer is faulty. Damn cheap Amazon garbage.

buy a gotek drive, you just put an pendrive and lots of floppy images.
you will never look back to floppy disks, plus its really cheap on USA.

You can always install 98 on a regular hard drive and then image the drive and then copy it to your sdd.