How To Make A Boot Disk For Windows 98

Making a Win98 bootdisk

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If yous have a Win98 CD (either full or upgrade version) and you lot tin read the CD from either DOS or Win9x you tin can make a Win98 kicking disk with generic IDE or SCSI CD-ROM support. If these methods don't work for y'all and so you'll need to follow the methods from the link listed above. So far I have yet to observe a 'puter that this boot deejay hasn't worked on! (And no, I don't hateful older 286, 386 'puters!)

From DOS

Kick to DOS.
Insert the Win98 CD into your CD-ROM.
Type X: hitting enter. (where X is the drive letter of the alphabet for your CD-ROM)
Type CD TOOLS hit enter.
Blazon CD MTSUTIL hit enter.
Type CD FAT32EBD hit enter.
Insert a NEW floppy disk into your floppy bulldoze.
Type FAT32EBD hit enter.
Then follow the instructions.

When you're done, write protect the floppy (by sliding the little plastic switch and then you can encounter two holes) and reboot your 'puter with the new kicking disk in the floppy drive. Verify that y'all can read CDs with it past doing the following:

Make certain in that location's a CD in the CD-ROM drive.
Blazon X: hit enter (where X is the drive letter of your CD-ROM)
Type DIR hit enter

Now y'all should (hopefully) run into the contents of the CD.

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From Win9x

Kick your 'puter.
Insert the Win98 into your CD-ROM drive.
Correct-click on MY Figurer .
From the popup menu choose EXPLORE .
Make this duel paned window full screen. Nosotros will navigate on the left side and work on the correct side. (I use this method all the time, some people like information technology and some don't.)
On the left side, left-click on the plus "+" next to your CD-ROM drive .
Then left-click on the plus "+" adjacent to TOOLS .
Then left-click on the plus "+" side by side to MTSUTIL .
Then left-click on the plus "+" next to FAT32EBD .
Insert a NEW floppy in your floppy drive.
Now double left-click on the file called either FAT32EBD or FAT32EBD.EXE (this depends on whether or non you take file extensions hidden or not.)
This will open a DOS window.
Follow the on screen instructions.

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When you're done, write protect the floppy (past sliding the little plastic switch so you tin see two holes) and reboot your 'puter with the new boot disk in the floppy bulldoze. Verify that you lot can read CDs with information technology by doing the following:

Make sure there's a CD in the CD-ROM drive.
Type Ten: hitting enter (where X is the drive letter of your CD-ROM)
Type DIR hitting enter

Now you should (hopefully) meet the contents of the CD.

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This is from the FAT32EBD.TXT file on the Win98 CD:

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INTRODUCTION
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The FAT32 Emergency Boot Deejay (EBD) provides a virus-gratis means for
starting and troubleshooting a computer, every bit well equally a ways for
sectionalisation large drives with the FAT32 file organization.

The utility that creates the EBD, FAT32EBD.EXE, writes an paradigm of a
known-good kicking sector that was scanned for viruses. A virus-free
kicking disk can be used to troubleshoot systems that you lot suspect are
infected with a virus, or to create a large partition for Windows 98.

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HOW TO CREATE A FAT32 EMERGENCY Boot Deejay
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The utility that creates the FAT32 EBD, FAT32EBD.EXE, can exist run from
MS-DOS or within Windows. Information technology will prompt you to insert a 1.44 MB
floppy disk in the A:\ drive so prompt yous to continue.
FAT32EBD.EXE transfers the boot sector to the floppy to ensure
at that place are no viruses. Adjacent, the files for the disk are extracted from
the WIN98*.CAB files and transferred to the floppy.

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Requirements
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- Access to the Windows 98 CD-ROM
- Access to a i.44 MB floppy bulldoze on A:\
- i.44 MB floppy deejay

If you happen to read this whole file you'll notice it doesn't say anything nigh providing CD-ROM support. Trust me, it does. This kicking disk will not exist the same as a START UP DISK that yous tin can create either during the install of Win98 of afterward Win98 is installed. Yous should create a START UP Deejay , it's very handy!

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