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by dklippert
by moonpie5757
by thechas
If you want to make your hard drive bootable into DOS mode, you need to start with a W98 startup disk.
If the drive is new, or you wish to make the drive as clean as possible, start by booting from the W98 startup floppy.
Run fdisk from the DOS prompt.
There is a good article on setting up partitions at www.aumha.org
And, links to lots of details at www.fdisk.com/fdisk
Then, after you have your partition(s) setup, re-boot from the floppy, and format the C: drive.
If you use the command format C:/s
The drive will be bootable in DOS mode.
After formatting the drive, switch to the c drive
(C: and press enter)
Type mdir win98
(make directory C:\win98)
Then, type CD win98 to enter the folder.
With the W98 CD in the drive, Switch to the CD drive (E or F) and use the xcopy command to copy the W98 CD to c:\win98
Re-boot the system without the boot floppy,
Type cd \win98
(press enter)
type setup
(press enter)
Windows 98 setup should begin.
A good site with alot of windows tips is www.onecomputerguy.com
Bob has a number of good tips and information posted.
Chas
by moonpie5757
by opatzg9
Chas gave you some good advice, in addition I'ld use the xcopy command as follows:
xcopy d:*.* /s /e
if d: is the cdrom drive otherwise substitute whatever drive letter it is.
The /s /e options tell it to recurse the subdirectories and copy empty directories. This will allow faster loading of windows 98 however you could run it strait from the cdrom drive.
When at the a: dos prompt type d: to switch to your cdrom drive, then type setup to start the 98 install. If you have a lot of disk space having windows 98 cd copied to the drive saves a lot of time when updating anything else or if you'ld ever need to install any other of the software items which came with 98. Then you won't need to go looking for the cd every time. Even with doing this expect 30minutes to 2 hours to get windows up and running right. If you need more info please include hard drive size, operating system going to,....
Good luck!
by opatzg9
Note the xcopy command I gave above should be ran from the c:\win98 directory.
MD - is the DOS command for Make Directory
CD - is the command for change directory
cd\ - takes you back to the root directory
CD win98 - would take you to a subdirectory called win98 if it exists
PROMPT $P$G - gives you the path on the DOS promptwith > sign at the end of it
I don't have a windows disk here at the moment but the xcopy command is on the win98 cd, I think in the windows\command directory.
otherwise go to the cdrom drive by typing d:
then type in dir xcopy.* /s /p
This will give you the directory it is in, then either path the command to the directory or change directory to it to execute it, or copy xcopy.* to c:\win98 and start from there.
the copy command is built into the command.com which brings the computer up(so is MD,CD,dir).
by moonpie5757
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