Create a windows 98 startup disk

I have a laptop that has an enterprise version of windows 7 on it, and I want to do a clean install of windows This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP Potentially Unwanted Products. Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.

Please let me know if you need any further assistance. Hope this helps, Nathan. The following functionality has been added:. The Edb. It is a compressed file whose contents are expanded during the startup process. The following table lists the contents of this file. Jul 25, The full, bootable iso of Windows 98 SE with the key.

Bought an old machine and want to play my old games. Windows 98 Floppy Boot Disk Image. Create bootable USB for windows DOS startup disk. Browse to the unzipped windows boot files. Click Start to format the USB drive and copy the boot. The following table lists the contents and describes the function of each file in the Startup Disk. Note: The files contained in the Startup Disk are copied to the WindowsCommand directory only if the user chooses to create a Windows 98 startup disk during Setup.

This happens during the first phase of the Startup Disk creation process. You can read this page for help in doing that: Viewing File Extensions. If you've never used it before, you should set aside some time to learn about its features soon. Unlike the old one that came with previous versions of MS-DOS, this one can open multiple files and has a split-screen option! It's probably best if you copy those lines exactly as they are into your own.

SYS and. BAT batch files. SYS or. SYS file and place a copy of it onto your new boot disk. I consider all the files on my boot disks to be useful. So, what do I do if there's another must have utility I just got and the Boot Disk is already full? A good PC Tech will probably carry around a bunch of disks full of programs to cover many different situations!

BAT on your floppy disk along with the driver necessary to use your CD-ROM drive, then you should also test your boot disk to make sure you can actually access a CD after booting with the floppy. Remember, once your hard drive fails to boot, it's too late! If you really must save some space on a drive, I suggest that you use some type of archiving program , such as WinZip R , to compress folders or individual files rather than whole drives.

BAT or understanding them, use the online Feedback Page here to email me. If you can remember back to the days when Win 3. This happened quite often just after Microsoft's releases of DOS 6. COM file wasn't really all that different between some of these versions! And for a whole new generation of computer users this will probably be their first introduction to DOS Batch files and even RAM-drives!

This Disk seems to have a bit of everything on it SYS file and the extraction of a. Here's a copy of the Windows 98 Readme. Here's a directory listing of all the files on the Win 98 Startup Disk. But the feature that fascinated me the most is the fact that for the first time in the history of a Microsoft OS version change as far as I know , the newer DOS kernel was made to be "backwards compatible" with all of the older MS-DOS utility programs!

This is the point of my subtitle: 'A Universal Boot Disk? Now, we're closer to that ideal than we've ever been before. SYS hidden system file! SYS too. I'm a bit too concerned about the differences I found in the IO. And even though I used a computer under these conditions -- writing files to the hard drive too, I swapped the files back to their original state a few hours later. The Starman 6 Nov 99 Revised, 28 October Last update: 4 NOV