My company bought some new Sony laptops without floppy drives, and they want to install Win98 on them (for software compatability reasons). But the Win98 CDs are not bootable CDs. They tried to connect a USB floppy to the computer, but it only gets recognized after WinXP has loaded.
My question is: Can a bootable Win98 CD be made?
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Jump to PostMy question is: Can a bootable Win98 CD be made?
I went to Google with the search string convert bootable floppy to bootable cd (no quotes) and got back a bunch of hits -- my thought is that you can take the Win 98 emergency boot disk, turn it into …
Jump to PostLaptops, especially the newer ones have a slot for PCcards, this is much if not the same thing as a floppy on a desktop. Go down to the local CompUSA, by a 32meg (PCMCIA)PCcard. If you format it with system files on any GUI machine..be it 98, 95, or ME …
Jump to PostYou are correct, the store packaged win98 cd's were bootable, but for the most part companies have bundles that were issued with "new PC's", these are unfortunately not bootable. They are the equivelant of white box....
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