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Windows 98 hard drive help
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Baschwar@
Can anyone help me get a working Windows98 hard drive set up?
I have the machine and a drive, but no way to get Windows 98 installed since the computer doesn't have a CDROM -- only floppy. Suggestions?
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arjan.dijk
Several options 2. Try a CompactFlash card (has the same pinout as ide, only smaller, adapters are cheap) as a harddrive and fill it with the windows setup 3. Try a SD IDE adapter 4, Connect the harddisk to a modern pc with a USB ide adapter, partition the drive and copy the windows setup to a second partition. Still have to boot from a floppy I think Op wo 5 aug. 2020 om 21:43 schreef Baschwar@ <baschwar@...>:
Can anyone help me get a working Windows98 hard drive set up?
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Baschwar@
No usb on this machine.
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I have the CF Card Adapter, but imaging the iso didn’t work. May have to try the partitioning. I don’t have a boot disk (yet) Thanks for the input Brad
On Aug 5, 2020, at 2:14 PM, arjan.dijk <arjan.dijk@...> wrote:
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atlantis@...
I remember installing Windows 95 from a whole bunch of floppy disks back in the day but I don't know if there is still some software available that will create all those floppy disk images from a cd image as there used to be. You may want to find out if you have enough floppy disks, I don't remember exactly how many it took.
I would add two other possiblities to the above list: Install a usb add-on card or an internal cd-rom drive, if the machine has a possibility for either of them they might be easier options. Maybe you could also hook the cd-rom up only temporarily with the machine open for installation. If the machine is pre-usb it should have an ide hard drive interface and to that you should be able to hook up 2 devices per channel normally.
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Constantine Christophi
I had great difficulty in finding the floppy version of Windows 98, the solution I went with was piggybacking an internal CD ROM drive set to slave on the same IDE cable as the hard drive and installing that way. Another problem I ran into was the minimum system requirements. RAM was easy (just buy some) but with the CPU I had to override the CPU check with commands:
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Hi All,
Windows 98 as far as I can remember came in two parts one floppy disk and one CD. The floppy was the startup disk. I think the later versions Windows 98SE may just have been on CD. The startup disk and the ISO are available on the net. I understand that there is a floppy disk version on Windows 98 which is/was available from MS but was 39 Disks. There seem to be plenty of second hand internal IDE CD readers on various websites. Best of luck, Keith
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hurtisover2011
Hi, I had similar problems so l bought a drive off ebay. CD/DVD drives are widely available and are not expensive, I got mine for £9.99 free p+p. Ed
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020, 20:43 Baschwar@, <baschwar@...> wrote: Can anyone help me get a working Windows98 hard drive set up?
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arjan.dijk
I think the Windows 98 disc is not a real critical boot disk. Just open the ISO in windows and copy the content should be enough. Op wo 5 aug. 2020 om 23:47 schreef Baschwar@ <baschwar@...>:
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arjan.dijk
What kind of computer are you trying? It does not seem like the smartest thing to install it on a 486. That will be painfully slow Op do 6 aug. 2020 om 09:31 schreef Constantine Christophi <conners@...>:
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wild_kow
I have mine installed on a Pentium II. The most important thing is that the computer does not have a built in video port. This causes conflicts which cannot be overcome easily. Look for a computer without the port built in but with the port on a separate plug-in
card. Make sure that is a plain video card without added features. Also make sure the serial port is not doubling as a gaming port.
I spent many hours resolving issues. I bought identical computers for my PC50 mill and PC55 lathe. I got the mill to work but not the lathe, even with the same computer. I bought another almost bare computer for the lathe and that does work.
John W
From: Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io <Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io> on behalf of arjan.dijk via groups.io <arjan.dijk@...>
Sent: 06 August 2020 11:17 To: Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io <Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io> Subject: Re: [Emco-CNC-Users] Windows 98 hard drive help What kind of computer are you trying? It does not seem like the smartest thing to install it on a 486. That will be painfully slow
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Jan Emco
On mine system I have installed unoffiial Windows 98 service pack 3. Better support for USB and networking.
On Wednesday, August 5, 2020, 9:43:31 PM GMT+2, Baschwar@ <baschwar@...> wrote:
Can anyone help me get a working Windows98 hard drive set up? I have the machine and a drive, but no way to get Windows 98 installed since the computer doesn't have a CDROM -- only floppy. Suggestions?
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David Rabenius
If you have a USB port on the P.C. then you can buy a external CD or floppy drive for under $40.00 on Amazon. I had the same problem works with my newer P.C.'S perfectly. Dave
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David Rabenius
The external floppy or CDRom connects via USB plug. I have & use both. Dave
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