How to make Windows 98 Bootable?
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If you are talking about a Windows 98 Installation disk, it is bootable, stick it in your CD drive, and if you have boot from CD enabled in your BIOS. It should boot to a prompt that will give you 3 options. 1.Boot from Hard Disk 2.Boot from CD 3. Command line...or something like that.
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you can't and why would you want to?\n\nOf course you can wipe your hard drive and start from scratch with 98.
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Like was already said you can format and install\n\nOr install win98 and do a repair on win2000 then you can have both at teh same time.\n\nHowever, the hard drive needs to be formated in fat32 to load 98.
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reboot and when windows starts to load I think you hit F8 where you'll get an option of "startup types" or something like that.\n\nlook for something called "normal startup"\n\nbeen a while since I've seen windows 98, so my recollection is a bit fuzzy, sorry if this is no help
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Download the utilities for you hard drive. They are available from the manufacture of your drives site. Zero the drive with there utility. Most computers will boot from the 98 CD - Set the boot order in the BIOS to boot Floppy drive first, Cd Next, and C (Hard Drive) Last. Some computers do not boot from CD and you will need a boot 98 SE boot disk- See sources. You may also have to get drivers for your computer that may not be on the windows CD - Go to you computer manufactures site - they usually have them. KillDisk will work if there is no utility for you drive - See Sources. When you go to put 98 in after wiping the drive you will have to let Windows format it - Go with large disk support - FAT 32.
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u must buy a bootable cd if u don't have u can boot your system with a bootable floppy disk ,\n\nTo create an MS-DOS startup disk\nThe MS-DOS startup disk you create will allow you to boot into MS-DOS.\n\nInsert a floppy disk into your computer's floppy drive. \nOpen My Computer, and then click the floppy disk drive to select it. \nOn the File menu, point to the name of the floppy drive, and then click Format. \nUnder Format options, click Create an MS-DOS startup disk. \nClick Start\n\nthen chang you setting of the bios of your mother bord to startup with flopy\nthen insert your flopy disk the u can formmat your system drive in dos mode\nby typing format c:\nafter formatting restart and insert the windows cd
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It's been a long time since I've used Windows 98, but these pages (in the Sources section) should be useful. \n\nGood luck!
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uh oh I don't think you can on 98 but if so, there's only one place I can think of that can help. Here's the URL:\nhttp://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98
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you can get bootdisk at www.bootdisk.com\nas for the rest, you might have it ( 98 ) allready on the computer in a reserve directory as some computer manufactuers save it on ther rather than giving you the disk
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look for the boot.ini file. open the file in notepade. then edit it.\nreboot.
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There are a couple of things. \n1. You need the original Windows 98 CD. \n2. You need a Start up disk.\n\nFirst thing to see is, Does the hard drive already contain an OS?\n\nIf the HD already contains an OS, then you will have to check if you want to upgrade to 98 or Downgrade to 98.\n\nIf you are upgrading, then simply put the Win 98 disk in the drive and complete the setup.\n\nIf you are downgrading, then you need a start up disk. \n\nGo to http://www.bootdisk.com to get a windows 98 startup disk creator. Then create a start up floppy disk. \n\nOnce you have the start up disk, put that in the pc in which you want to install windows 98. \n\nThen turn the PC on. \n\nDuring start up, it will ask if you want to start up in \n1. No cd support\n2. with cd support. \n\nselect 2 (with CD support)\n\nThen, once the C prompt comes up, format the hard drive to remove the previous OS. \n\nOnce the formatting is done, pop the win98 cd in the cd drive. \n\nthen in the command prompt, type "E:&#92;SETUP.EXE" NOTE:- E: is your CD-ROM drive. \n\nit'll walk you through complete Windows 98 setup. \n\nOnce the OS is installed, install additional hardwares like graphic card, sound card etc. \n\nall set and done.. \n\nWOLA WINDOWS 98 IS INSTALLED..\n\nhope that helps.
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set the boot option to cd first by going to cmos set up and then insert the win 98 cd and restart. win 98 setup files will then load. Follow the instructions and then prefereabley chose a different drive  to install win 98.(if win xp is installed in c: then may be you can install win 98 in D drive).\nAfter installation, when you reeboot the computer will give u an option of selecting the operating system u want to load and u can select using the arrow keys.\nwin 98 doesnt work on NTFS but XP works on FAT 32, which supports win 98
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Step 1:  Get rid of windows ME.  It's crappy and nobody uses it anymore, because nobody liked it in the first place.  You can run either windows 98 or windows 2000 on that machine.  \n\nStep 2:  Follow step 1, your problem will be solved.
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its not possible to delete a windows 98 either u have to format the partition or at the time of installation if u saved the setting of the previous version then u can uninstall it.
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I had a friend who did the same thing, he put xp on and realized it could barely boot up. Just put in the win98 cd and let it format the drive during installation. Make sure you have all the drivers for 98 BEFORE installing. Find out what drivers you will need. That is the hardest part by far.
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put the cd into the cd rom.enter bios.select boot from cd.install windows.\ngood luck!
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the person who said you cannot install 98 ( or any OS ) with a CD is wrong, i do it all the time ( 95a, 95s, 98, 98se, win2k, xp all will install sans CD ), before you copy, defrag the drive, scandisk it, then makea folder like 111, that you can find under DOS ( you can boot to a floppy right ? ), get a 98se boot disk from bootdisk.com ( or ws it org .. ), copy the 98 dir over completely Under ME, copy smartdrv.exe over as well ( trust me you'll need it ), Explorer works wll but I use Wincmdr for all my file activites,\n\nedit the msbatch.inf file\ninput serial number and other fields to make your install automated\n\nnow reboot to dos\ngo t the 111 directory\ngo to the 98 dir\ntype in setup /is\nthe /is switch will ignore the scan on the drive