Need a Windows 98 Floppy boot disk

Found an old windows CD, Win 98.
Found an IDE cd rom and IDE HDD.

The floppy boot discs seem to work as they should but my IDE HDD seems to be dead ? So I can not test an install. tut !

Anyhow, two floppy's are all yours. click on "Trust" email me and we'll take it from there..
 
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.
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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

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..
 
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..
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Thank you so so much! Get this guy a medal!
 
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 :D

..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.
 
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 :D

..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.
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Dude, back in the day, games were pretty crap, much of the fun was found in getting the damn things to actually work! :D
 
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hero!! I'm out just now will test very soon and report back. Thanks.
 
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 :D

..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.
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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 said:
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hero!! I'm out just now will test very soon and report back. Thanks.
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Post Office did well...

Yes, let us know how things go.. Put pics up of Windows 98 up and running.

I was messing about with LGA 775 machine and I could not get Windows 98 installed. It must have been the chipset me thinks, my CD ROM would not be recognized by the boot disc at all. Though it was\is there in the BIOS.

As for having a Windows 98 bootable CD I found out that OEM discs were bootable. I have managed to lay my hands on such a disc but haven't had the time to test this out. Somebody did post they had a Windows 98 bootable CD, this could be an OEM disc ?

Have fun..
 
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).
 
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).
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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
 
I love to see the community coming together like this. I love following projects like this, and have wonderful memories of the Dos to Windows era.

I would never go back though, I’ll keep those memories firmly behind the rose tints and remember them as they were.
 
No. No. No

I was not going to be defeated.

Windows 98 boot floppy did not recognize my IDE CD ROM.

So i went up into my loft dug about a bit and found a couple more IDE HDD. I have a USB to IDE\Floppy connector so I connected them to my main PC to test if they both worked and they did.
I formatted one to 10GB on FAT32 and the other to 4GB FAT32.
I extracted the Windows 98 files to the smaller drive.
Plugged both drives into my LGA 775 machine and booted to the floppy.

BINGO !!!

As I type now Windows 98 is being installed.

Damn just as I was getting giddy it wont boot, memory problems I bet. I do have 8GB DDR...

Still fun though.
 
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