08-06-2009, 01:51 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Bootable Win98 USB Drive
I have spent the last couple of hours googling and trying different utilities, and I'm about ready to give up.
Does anybody have a quick and easy way to make a USB drive bootable to a Windows 98 boot disk; giving the same functionality as the old Windows 98 floppy boot disks have? What I have is a computer image that is on CD (well, DVD actually), and basically I need to be able to boot the computer up far enough to get the the DVD drive to run the exe.
I have made a couple of boot USB drives, and put the image on the same USB drive, but the transfer rate is like USB 1.0 or something.
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08-06-2009, 02:03 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
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I'm assuming you've used Bootdisk.com?
http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm
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08-06-2009, 02:05 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Yep, been through all of those. Depending on the methods used from there I either get a boot error, or it boots as if it was formatted with a /s and gives me a simple command prompt- no chance to change drive letters because it doesn't load CD-ROM drivers.
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08-06-2009, 02:10 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Did you include a config.sys and autoexec.bat?
Like mentioned here: http://www.onecomputerguy.com/install/floppies.htm
(Geez, it has been years since I manually created a bootable disk like this)
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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08-06-2009, 02:14 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Yep, and looking at the config.sys and autoexec.bat that I used from Win98 and WinME they both have commands to map the CD drive.
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08-06-2009, 02:19 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
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I'm sure you've googled everything I'm finding. I'm wondering if the issue is that it is a DVD?
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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08-06-2009, 03:22 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Does it have to be Windows98 specifically? Why not something like a BartPE boot CD/usb stick, which is far more flexible from a device driver standpoint?
Or is this a DOS executable you are trying to run?
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08-06-2009, 05:54 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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OK, you have config.sys and autoexec.bat files on the boot USB.
Did you remember to copy mscdex.exe and the CDROM.SYS (or whatever it's named) files onto the USB? Are there path references in the startup files that may be broken? (eg. A:\mscdex.exe or C:\mscdex.exe)
Obvious I know, but easy to overlook. Even bootdisk.com doesn't explicitly instruct you on this---they just say you can copy the utils you need to the pen drive.
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08-07-2009, 08:39 AM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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I have gotten USB drives that boot into DOS just fine; it's just that even when I copy all Win98 files over it doesn't prompt me like the old boot floppies to ask if I want CD-ROM support.
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08-11-2009, 11:16 AM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Big thanks to psicodude for his help.
Turns out the Win98 files we were using needed to be edited.
In the "config.sys" file, there is a line that says:
device=emm386.exe noems
It needed to be changed to:
device=emm386.exe
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