How To Boot Windows 98 From Cd

Washington Thandrell · Monday, 2 May 2022

Windows 98 Bootable CD

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Was Windows 98 ever bachelor on bootable CD? If not is at that place a style to create a Windows 98 bootable CD,I mean to boot from CD drive like XP.
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What are you trying to practise with it?

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Yes,you should exist abls to discover a win98 kicking paradigm thru google.

I think,therefore i am a hamster.
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Aye if you had a full version,my 98SE CD boots.
Google "make win98 bootable CD".
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I want to install Win98 on an old computer and don't want to use a floppy,I want to exist able to install 98 merely like I install XP.
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I Googled make win98 bootable cd and this seems to pb to various sites that tell you how to make a boot floppy. Is there a way to take existing win98 cd and create a Cd that will boot directly from the CD/DVD using no floppy.
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I can't recall if Win98 was able to install directly from CD or not. Do you lot not have a floppy drive on that PC to practise the install? The kicking floppy is just the interim required to become the install started from the CD. Otherwise it may exist pretty complicated taking the existing CD and re-creating it to be bootable.

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Yep, there ARE bootable Win98SE CDs. I have 2 (sorry, not going to give them up.)
Aye, you can make your ain (assuming you take a original Win98SE CD).

Here'southward one way: http://www.ntcompatible.com/How_do_I_create_a_bootable_Windows_98_CD-ROM_t23157.html

Another is to get WinISO. Make an ISO of the CD. DL a re-create of the floppy boot paradigm which yous can DL from Bootdisk.com http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Make a new ISO that includes both. Burn it. Washed.

Scott
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http://world wide web.ntcompatible.com/How_do_I_create_a_bootable_Windows_98_CD-ROM_t23157.html
Constitute with google in 3 seconds. Searched for "Create windows 98 bootable cd"

Uses nero for called-for merely y'all should be able to adapt it to use imgburn.

This uses imgburn to create a bootable win xp disc
Yous should be able to change it to create a 98 disc.

edit looks like Cornucopia beat me to it while I was typing this up.

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These methods work past combining the kick floppy and 98 files on cd which works like the floppy method but combines them on cd and that works. What I aiming for was to boot directly to setup similar an XP deejay.
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Originally Posted by wulf109

What I aiming for was to boot directly to setup like an XP disk.

Yous have two choices then:
i.Make a bootable CD.
two.Buy a 98SE CD.
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Originally Posted by wulf109

These methods work by combining the boot floppy and 98 files on cd which works like the floppy method just combines them on cd and that works. What I aiming for was to boot direct to setup like an XP disk.

I don't get what yous're wanting.
The XP disc works the same mode. It has a kicking sector image which so passes off to the AUTORUN.INF of the CD. Just like bootable Win98SE CDs exercise. Simply like what we're suggesting you build.
Practise you not want to build i? Y'all surely realize y'all tin can't burn a stamped CD, nor could you lot burn a boot sector into a not-bootable CD-R (if yous're thinking of trying to "retrofit" them). Look on Ebay, then.

Scott
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To kick direct to setup all that's needed is to create an autoexec.bat file and include information technology in the root directory on the boot CD. I recently fabricated such a CD which included Ghost 2003, but I chose to accept mine boot directly to Ghost instead of Windows.