Windows 95/98 to floppy disk

I can't imagine how many floppy disks it would take to load win95/98 on your pc but there is a better way. I suggest you ask a friend to slave your hard drive with his computer and then transfer the files onto your hard drive that way. Once that has been done, you can reinstall your hard drive into your pc, boot from a floppy drive, then select the setup.exe from your hard. For example: after you boot from a floppy, you will be at the a:\ Next, change to your c: drive; Then type "setup.exe" Your in business!!!

You might try looking on ebay for the floppy version of W95.

This was the last version of Windows that was distributed on floppy disk.

As you need to restructure a number of files, and determine the correct order, it is not practicle to copy either W95 or W98 from the CD onto floppies.

You can also buy parallel port adapters to add a CD drive to the laptop for under $50.
Or if you have a PCMCIA slot, you can purchase a portable CD drive for the laptop.

Chas

I work on pc support and have had to load Win98 etc onto a pc with no CD drive. No problem

You need a Start up floppy disk Win 95 Win 98 Dos, don't care. On this disk add two files INTERLNK.EXE INTERSVR.EXE (I am emailing these to you as attachments)
Also add these file to the C: root of a pc with a CD drive

When you get to the A:> prompt (Booting from floppy) KEY
c:
md WIN98 or WIN95
A:
INTERSVR

Attach a Laplink cable to either COM1, Com2, or LPT1
The other end of the cble attach to COM1, COM2 or LPT1 (LPT1-LPT1 Cable best)to a pc with a CD Drive running Win 95/98/ME

Ammend the Config.sys on the pc with the cd drive to add a line

DEVICE=C:\INTERLNK.EXE /AUTO

Now Reboot the pc with the CD drive. It will detect the other pc and you can copy D:\WIN98\*.* to the E:\WIN98 (E: will be the Other pc).

OK

When all said and done, Sooner or later you,ll have to sort your self out a CDRom for the use of most all other software packages. Buy your self a half decient CDRom put in the boot up disk(the disk has its own default drivers for most all cdroms boot with cdrom support win 95/95 setup all done. if cdrom not accepted by your pc you've got a long way to go. Again invest now because you'll have to anyway and it will make things easier.

Hi

Installing a CD drive will not only allow you to access the win98, but all other software titles which are now mostly available on CD.

You can make a set of floppy disks from the WIN98 directory on the CD or use other options:

1- Use copy or xcopy or msbackup command.
2- Use ZIP to make a spanned zip file on floppies. Then unpack them to a WIN98 directory on the notebook hard disk, then run setup.exe from that directory.
3- Laod the WIN98 directory from the CD to a network drive or a storage in the internet
then copy it back to the notebook hard disk.
4- Use a laplink cable to make a connection to share the CD-ROM drive.
using Interlink or laplink or mapdrive (dos command and old third party utilites).

This will not give you a bootable disk you have to make a bootable floppy by using a running PC : start-setting-controle panel->add/remove software -TAB (startup disk) then put a new floppy then click create.

You can use utilities or other hardware to help you:
1- maxformat
http://www.alkonost.com/maxformat/

2- superdisk drive
http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=104939

Good Luck

Mohamed

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