Need a Windows 98 Floppy boot disk

beany_bot · 3 Jan 2019 at 16:27

Can anyone help me? Im building a mid 90's gaming PC (beige) but I need a floppy win 98 boot disk to install Win 98 on it though and very surprisingly I can't find one anywhere. Not even the flea bay. Can anyone help me? I could pay postage to me and a little beer money and then post you it back?

beany_bot · 3 Jan 2019 at 16:35

Images I can find. Unsurprisingly I have no access to a floppy drive

beany_bot · 3 Jan 2019 at 16:39

andicole0 said:
So how are you going to use the disk?
Andi.

On the retro PC, it has a disk drive but no OS or anything yet. Hence I need to give it the boot disk

beany_bot · 3 Jan 2019 at 16:56

Nah no USB on it sadly

beany_bot · 3 Jan 2019 at 17:05

something daft already!! said:
You can pick up a USB floppy drive for less than a tenner. Could be worth getting that to create the disk on your PC from an image.

I thought about that. Then looked at the price of blank floppies.... £25 for a pack. Nah.... Would rather give someone a tenner for posting me a boot disk if I can.

beany_bot · 3 Jan 2019 at 17:35

tnx said:
I am going to be setting up my Abit LGA 775 machine this weekend, will be messing with an old bit of software. I have a floppy drive and some floppy's hanging about. If you really want somebody to make you some boot discs I'm sure I can help.

I would appreciate that mate. Happy to send beer money.

beany_bot · 3 Jan 2019 at 17:46

tnx said:
I work nights so wont have the time till Friday but more like Saturday. I will get things sorted out with my machine, get XP installed and get some discs made.
Been a LONGGGGGGGGGGG time since I have done this so I will have to refresh my memory and read up on it.

It will be my pleasure mate. No beer money needed but thanks. Happy to help.

I will reply on here when done and we can go from there.

Too kind!

beany_bot · 3 Jan 2019 at 18:02

tnx said:
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

3 boxes of floppy discs found....We are half way there..

This is gunna be fun.

The sound it's going to make writing them will be pure porn.

beany_bot · 3 Jan 2019 at 18:51

paradigm said:
Windows 98 will boot from CD, no real need for a floppy. It's how I installed 98SE on my two retro builds.

I've tried and tried. Must be my mobo but it wont work, needs a floppy

beany_bot · 4 Jan 2019 at 10:03

tnx said:
Well so much for waiting.... The excitement got the better of me.

Old machine out of the loft, XP is loaded up and the floppy boot discs are being made as I type.

From the link in post #2 there are 4 Windows 98 boot images, I will do Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE.

Do you think you'll have a need for any others ?
Have you got a Windows 98 cd ?

I have one some where. Will have to dig it out and an old IDE drive too and give the floppy a whirl.

Wow. You are some man!!! I only have need for Win98 SE boot floppy as that is the CD I have. Will trust, thanks so much.

beany_bot · 4 Jan 2019 at 13:35

tnx said:
@beany_bot

I got your email, thanks very much. I have posted out both of the floppy discs, thought I might as well.
Posted in a padded envelope 1st class.

I purposely did not reply to your email cause there is no need for any sort of payment. Thanks very much for the offer though.
It was fun digging the old PC out and having a mess about with floppy discs. Hearing the click of floppy drive working is payment enough. I should be thanking you.

Hope they work and you get done what you need to.

Have fun..

Thank you so so much! Get this guy a medal!

beany_bot · 5 Jan 2019 at 11:14

hero!! I'm out just now will test very soon and report back. Thanks.

beany_bot · 5 Jan 2019 at 11:17

Cooper said:
Lol, I find this fascination with building beige brick 'Retro battle boxes', kitted out with vintage era 3DFX cards and the like from the 90's, utterly bizarre

..As someone who lived through the BSOD's, IRQ errors and fiddling with Motherboard circuit jumpers on the floor, under my desk, in the dark and playing games on 15 inch CRT's (17 inch you were lucky!!) those rose tinted nostalgia spectacles have a lot to answer for.

I love messing about with it. Reason it isn't annoying now? Because it's not my main pc. If I get bsod it isn't a massive pain. It's a challenge. A challenge I can do at my own pace.

beany_bot · 5 Jan 2019 at 18:06

@tnx

Can't thank you enough! worked flawlessly.

beany_bot · 6 Jan 2019 at 09:13

ubersonic said:
Slightly off topic, but unless you really REALLY like the noise and slowness of a mechanical HDD then you can get a mental performance boost simply by fitting an IDE-Compactflash adapter and a low capacity CF card (it's like having an IDE SSD).

Already done yeah, I do like then noise of a HDD in this instance, but the lure of being able to plug the CF card straight into my modern PC for transferring files was just too much