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Installing Windows98 with NO CD-ROM!!!

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by peejay 2 views

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Here's my Problem:

I formatted my PC and I want to freshly install Windows98 SE on it. Well, I formatted everything and I put the Windows98 SE boot disk in and everything was working like it's supposed to. Then, after I tried accessing the CD-ROM to run the setup.exe file from the CD, it appears that I don't have the DOS drivers for my CD-ROM so I'm stuck and I can't access the CD-ROM. Is there any way I can install Windows98 over the network or something because I am on a network? Or can someone please help me with an answer? I appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks.

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by peejay

I ended up replacing the CD-ROM and it worked.. Apparently, the drive was bad because after I did that everything worked fine. Thanks.

by thechas

Did you use a bootdisk, or a startup disk?

A DOS bootdisk does not include the CD drivers.
The startup disk does.

What I do, is temporarily mount the hard drive in another PC, and copy the W98 CD onto the hard drive.
Use a DOS pathname (8 standard characters) for the folder name.
Many people use C:\WIN98
I often use C:\Windows\Options
(that was the folder on the first PC I came across with the CD copied to the hard drive)

One advantage of doing this, is that you NEVER need the W98CD to install drivers or network protocols.

Chas

by peejay

I ended up replacing the CD-ROM and it worked.. Apparently, the drive was bad because after I did that everything worked fine. Thanks.

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