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There will be a setup.exe on the CD though, and if the CD was actually copied onto a hard disc partition (but not the partition you are going to install Windows on), then you can install Windows from it. When someone merely copies that CD for you, unless the copy is made with correct 'clone' options, you won't get the bootable capability. A 'proper' install CD is definitely bootable and actually contains a Dos OS. I'm not very savvy with computers but I'm learning fast!Īs I understand you, the floppy drive will boot, alternatively you can plug in a CD which will read fine, but the setup CD will not boot. In my previous attempts to make progress the bios has been configured correctly to boot from floppy or CD RoM as required. If the applications you mention can do this would you please give me a pointer to where they are available so that I can check them out.

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The particular program I want to run will give the full benefits only if run with true MS-DOS, not DOS-in-WINDOWS and WIN 95 and WIN 98 have been recommended. The installation disk I am trying to use is a copy so I guess it must be suspect.įor gbhall: Thanks for the info. So it looks as though I need to find a good copy of the installation disk to carry on. 'Explore' brings up 'Please insert a disk into Drive D'. When the disk is put in the drive a flashing disk icon appears next to the cursor, 'properties' show a full disk graphic with no used space and no free space, (zero bytes all round). The CD RoM works OK on other CDs but does not boot the laptop. Is this not so? And on the subject of the Win 98 installation disk, I think you must be correct about it being faulty.

Ref your point #2: The problem remains (I'm sure) that one can't change periphals without turning the computer off first so what ever progress made with the floppy is lost. The floppy DOES boot OK from the slotted floppy drive. I tried to boot the laptop from a USB floppy but have found that the bios does not support booting from external USB devices. You understand correctly about the setup here.

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And that virtual PC can be run on any modern PC from XPSp3 onwards, but will install as good a copy of Win98 as you are likely to need. Secondly, you can run a virtual OS from MS (virtual PC), Oracle (virtual box), VMWARE (VMplayer and others). First off, the fact is, Windows 7 professional has XP mode, which is more capable of running older applications than XP ever was, but usually not 16-bit games accessing the hardware direct. Obviously, I can't double-guess why you need the real Win98 to run 16-bit programmes, but there are a couple of alternatives worth mentioning. If it works at all, you will need to configure it as a bootable drive in the bios. If the CD drive you have will not read anything, you are stuck if you can't acquire another. That is not an option on a laptop where there is an external floppy/CD connector. In all the dozens of win98 PC's that crossed my desk, the CD drive was always a normal HDD connector connected as an ATA slave. Still available here Īs to the shared floppy/CD drive, rarely heard of that. There also was an unofficial service pack for Win98SE which added many very important features (possibly including USB drivers, I'm not quite sure). That used to come with the stick as a small CD, but is probably a download today (if available at all). (I even became a forum member to reply to you.For USB sticks, you will need a driver. Anyway it your solution worked like a charm. I figured I couldn't call Dell since it wasn't a Dell device. Unfortunately, other people may not have my limited knowledge.

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Fortunately, I was intelligent enough to figure out it was a driver problem. I could not get the PNY Flash Drive to work either.

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The Lexar site is: - and I picked Win98 SE, USB JumpDrive 1.0.įinal thought, I think Dell should have provided drivers for Win 98 on the CD's that come with a new system, even though the new system is Win XP, the whole purpose of the USB key is to transfer data, and it's very likely that data would be transfered to and from other systems which do not operate in Win XP. As an added bonus, the Lexar provides a 'wizard' type installation that works like a charm - no need to get into technicalities. Then, after reading that my Dell USB key is in fact a Lexar JumpDrive, I went to the Lexar Media site, and downloaded the drivers for Win 98, and it worked. I tried installing the Windows 98 drivers off the Dell site (Zip file) for the Dell USB key on my Win 98 computer without success.

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