Forgot your password? I recall hearing that Win98 Build 4. Do you know anywhere I could get them other than ordering them from Microsoft? I'm really disappointed with people that keep asking me this. Seriously, replace the optical drive. Should easily get one for free if you look around. If you can't come up with anything constructive please don't answer. Sorry but this is really the simplest and easiest solution. If you really want to buy the floppy disk version of Windows 98 then go to eBay or other websites and look for it.
I'm sorry if we keep suggesting that you do something that you don't want to do, but where did you think you could get a copy of Win98 on floppy for less money than a used, or even new CD-ROM drive will cost? I can't think of any option to find such a set other than eBay. But even if someone had a set they were willing to give you for free, with Win98 already loaded on them, postage alone to mail them to you is likely to cost more than a CD-ROM drive.
That many blank floppy disks, IF you can find them, will definitely cost more than that. Not to mention that install by floppy, or even just copying from 39 floppy disks to your HDD will be slow as all get out and prone to error. Perhaps if you could explain why you do not wish to pursue replacing your CD-ROM drive it would make more sense or we could offer you another alternative. I used to use floppies a lot back in the nineties Next we need to prepare the thin client internal hard drive for Windows 98 install.
This will boot from our Windows 98 floppy image:. Also the steps required here will vary depending on your hardware and disk setup.
For my build, I did the following:. Back at the DOS prompt. Before we install Windows 98, we need to format the internal hard disk. Type format c: and then Y to start the format process:. EXE to launch Windows 98 setup. Follow all the defaults to install Windows All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. General discussion.
On my computers I only have a floppy drive. On one of my computers I can't get in because the explorer. I have tried a bootdisk with no luck. Is there any other way for me to try and fix this problem?
I was also wondering if I could copy Windows 98 from a CD onto a floppy? Share Flag. All Comments. Collapse -. I guess I can try to do this stuff in a Windows 98 VM Improve this question. Retronoob Retronoob 33 4 4 bronze badges. I suspect a hard drive geometry mismatch somewhere. For best results, you should a partition and format the disk on the target machine, b temporarily connect the disk to another machine to copy the installer files, then c reconnect the disk to the target machine to run the installer.
Does this answer your question? I mean, that explains what's going on I assume this is exactly what's wrong and I think I simply misunderstood what fdisk does, hence the whole "Windows XP demands a reformat" issue I think I just created the partition but didn't format it lol.
That seems like.. Lets try it again with the target machine. Thank you both! Retronoob You might want to merge your accounts, retrocomputing. Please use the contact form at the bottom of the page to request this; then you'll be able to comment on and edit your questions properly.
Also, please only use the answer box for answers; see How to Answer and the tour for details. If you have such weird booting issues you can always do this in another computer create W98 DOS bottable partition and another one holding W98 installation files then move the HDD back to laptop and boot directly from HDD without any floppy Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. I have a Compaq LTE , which is very similar to the kit you have.
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