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trying to install 98 from flash drive to hard disk

Hello,
I'm trying to install 98 from a flash drive to a hard disk inside the machine. Presently, I only have a USB connection in the tablet. I do not have a CD or floppy disk drive for the tablet.
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Win 98
 
If you haven't already Partitioned and made the USB Stick Active you may need to create a Bootable CD with Fdisk.exe on it to prepare the USB Stick if you haven't a Floppy Drive. You will need a DOS Boot Disk which can be downloaded from below.
 
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
 
Download these files and add the new fdisk.exe to the floppy when it is created.
 
Tip. Dont forget to modify Autoexec.bat and Config.sys so that they don't reflect any Drives. Sample and an alternative way: http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootablecd Read the documentation below.
 
Windows 98 SE Custom, No Ramdrive
 
Updated fdisk for Windows 98 bootdisks
 
Because a lot of newer PC's don't have Floppy Drives anymore I use Virtual Floppy Drive. VFD.
 
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#beta
 
How to make a bootable CD
 
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000669.htm
 
How to Make Bootable CDs
 
http://www.pcsupportadvisor.com/bootable_%20CD_page1.htm
 
If you have access to the necessesary equipment keep the Active Partition at 2GB Read On.
 
Download the MS-DOS 7.10 Installation CD ISO Image
 
MS-DOS 7.10 Installation CD ISO Image:
 
http://ms-dos7.hit.bg/#msfv
 
Burn it to CD using Nero or any other Software that will support the ISO Image.
 
How to burn an ISO Image:
 
http://www.ubcd4win.com/burn.htm
 
Ensure that you have an Active Partition on the new Drive and it is Formatted FAT32
 
Disconnect the Hard Drive from the PC that you have been using. Set it to Boot from CD in the BIOS. Connect your USB Stick and turn on the PC.
 
Insert the DOS CD that you created and follow the prompts to install it to the USB Drive. When you have finished installing DOS shutdown the PC and reconnect the Hard Drive.
 
Restart the PC and reconnect the USB Stick, now you will need to copy the Win9X Folder from your XP CD to the USB Stick.
 
When you have finished doing that, disconnect the USB Stick and insert it back into the original PC. Turn on the PC and you should end up with a DOS Prompt. Now you will have to remove the Non DOS Partition, delete the NON DOS Logical Partition first and then the NON DOS Active Partition. Once that is complete recreate the Primary Partition, exit out and restart the PC.
 
When you get back to the DOS Prompt type in CD Win9X and press Enter. Type setup.exe and press Enter. Follow the prompts.
 
Hint! You may as well copy the Motherboard Device Drivers to the USB Stick at the same time as you are going to need them, also copy your Antivirus Sofware that you are going to install
 
Let us know how you get on.

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Install windows 98 on hard drive - from a USB flash drive

Hello,
Presently, I do not have a CD or floppy drive for this tablet. I only have a USB flash drive, which I'm attempting to use to install Windows 98 operating system on the tablet. The tablet does not have an operating system at this time.
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The directions above are to allow you to copy the

Windows Install Files to the USB Stick.
When you have the entire Install Disc of 98SE copied to the USB Stick all that should be required if your hardware supports this option is to insert the USB Stick into a USB Port and boot the Tablet then enter BIOS and select the First Boot Device as the USB then the HDD as the second Boot Device. Save these changes on exit and allow the system to restart.
It should then find the Install Files on the USB Drive and ask do you want to install from there.
If it doesn't either you have the Install Disc copied incorrectly or the Tablet doesn't support Booting off a USB Device.
I'm not sure that this is even possible as 98 relies on the Install Media to be active through the Install Process and 98 didn't have any USB Support till the SE Version and even then it wasn't very good so I don't know if this will even work here. Though if the Hardware supports Booting off a USB Device it should at the very least allow you to format the HDD and start the install till the first restart. After they it may fail to read the USB Stick.
You may need to copy the Install Files to a small Partition on the HDD from the USB Stick to install the OS here on a reboot after removing the USB Stick after the Copy to the HDD finishes.
I hope that helps.
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Just to add

The directions that I have supplied are for you to prepare the USB Stick to make it Bootable and act as a Drive so that it can be used to install Win98 to the Hard Drive in the Tablet. This is assuming that the USB flash drive can be booted from on the Tablet by setting the Boot order in the BIOS. Win98 will think that the USB flash drive is a Hard Drive it wont be worried about USB support at this time.
When you have prepared the USB flash drive try to boot from it. If it works but you can't install Win98 from where it is then you will have to make the Hard Drive in the Tablet Bootable by typing sys.com d: and press Enter. We will cross this bridge if needed later.

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a work in process

Hello
Thanks for the support.
I downloaded the bootdisk and updated fdisk to a floppy drive on a different PC. I then used HP Drive Key Boot Utility to create the disk image file on the USB stick.
I tried a number of different modifications to Autoexec.bat and Config.sys but the outcomes were all the same.
The tablet bios would recognize the USB - I changed the boot order so it preceded the hard drive and got the following outcome when trying to boot up:
SYSLINUX 2.10 ...
.. ..
boot: (here I could make entries from keyboard such as sys.com d: - which resulted in 'could not find kernal image: sys.com')
Sceen then proceeded to show loading memdisk and then the .img file created by the HP Drive Key Boot Utility followed by the statement: Ready.
There was further output to the screen which ended with the last line:
Loading boot sector .. booting..
At this point there is a flashing cursor but will not take any input from keyboard.
Nothing happens after this except occasionally the screen will show flashing text or color lines then return to the text ending in .. booting..
Can you recommend a next step to try?
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Yeah,

follow the instructions that were provided.
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You should be able to install DOS 7 on it now.

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Windows 98 Bootable Disc Software

Hello
Was able to get a C: prompt on the tablet, but not using the USB stick loaded with DOS 7.1 using process you provided.
Got C: prompt from USB stick with disk image file from windows 98 SE bootdisk.
I am not sure what you mean by the new drive when you state: 'Ensure that you have an Active Partition on the new Drive and it is Formatted FAT32'
Also was not sure by your reference to a XP CD when you state: 'you will need to copy the Win9X Folder from your XP CD to the USB Stick'. I don't have Windows XP if that was the reference.
I installed DOS 7.1 from the CD to the USB Stick after the stick had been set up to be bootable including the Windows98 boot directory - the USB stick was able to get a C: prompt on the tablet before installing DOS 7.1 on it.
I have a second USB stick set up to boot the tablet. I loaded the Windows98SE disk on it and have access to all those files. Ran Fdisk.exe with this USB and was able to see both the USB and tablet hard drive. Started the setup.exe process but assume that it would setup on the stick and not the tablet hard drive so camcelled it.
Tried sys.com d: but don't know how to get to the tablet hard drive.
Will keep working on it.

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Windows 98 Bootable Cd

I am not sure what you mean by the new drive when you state: 'Ensure that you have an Active Partition on the new Drive and it is Formatted FAT32'
 
I am refering to the Tablet Drive.
 
Also was not sure by your reference to a XP CD when you state: 'you will need to copy the Win9X Folder from your XP CD to the USB Stick'.
 
I meant Windows 98 CD.
 
I have been having a play as well and you wont be able to make the Tablet Drive Active unless you use the DOS based Partedt. part244.exe which can be downloaded here.
 
http://www.ranish.com/part/
 
I really don't think that you are going to be successful doing it this way as the USB Stick is going to be C:. I think that you would be better off with a Notebook IDE Hard Drive Adaptor. That way you can connect the Drive to a PC and use the CD to install to it. You are also going to need USB Drivers for 98.
 
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117 - Install Windows 98SE/ME from an ISO file on an Easy2Boot USB drive

The instructions below will allow you to add a Windows 98 ISO file to your Easy2Boot drive and install Win98 to an internal hard disk.

It should also work for Windows ME.

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Introduction

If you would like to be able to re-install Windows 98 or Me onto a system that perhaps has a broken CD-ROM, then you can do so using Easy2Boot.

Requirements

Before we start however, please remember that Win98 is a very old Operating System and so is quite tricky to install on modern systems.

The 98/Me browser is very old - most websites will not display correctly in any Win98/Me browser, so internet access is extremely limited!

Check here for a list of compatible mainboards.

Please check the following requirements before you begin!

The target system must be able to boot from a USB drive (Flash or HDD)
The target system must have an IDE hard disk drive (SATA drives may not work - set the 'Legacy/IDE' setting in the BIOS setup menu if you have a SATA hard drive fitted - do not use 'AHCI')
Older system BIOSes may have a 137GB hard disk limit - installing onto a hard disk larger than 137GB may cause problems (also using a USB Hard Disk larger than 137GB may cause problems - E2B will warn you if this is the case) - see here for more details.
Your target system will need 256MB or more of memory (the ISO contents are copied to RAM) - however, systems with more than 1GB may also cause memory problems.
You will need a utility to delete some folders from inside the Win98SE ISO - e.g. Daemon Tools Pro or UltraISO (so you don't lose the boot sectors from the ISO).
Win98 may not have the correct drivers for your audio, network and graphics devices
Windows 98 SE ISO (you will have to obtain this yourself) - the ISO can be bootable (preferred) or non-bootable. Try here (OEM Full is bootable) or here.
(optional) Windows 98 SE 1.44Mb floppy .img image file (you will have to obtain this yourself) - only required if the Win98 ISO is not bootable.

If you wish to try this by using a Virtual Machine (e.g. Oracle Virtual Box), ensure you configure it for Windows 98, use a small amount of memory for Display VGA memory and not more than 1GB of system memory (RAM). Use an IDE virtual hard disk.

Prepare the USB drive

1. Make an E2B bootable USB drive from www.easy2boot.com

2. Check that you can boot the E2B USB drive on your target system - if not then you cannot proceed any further!

3. (optional) Edit the Windows 98 SE ISO file that you have obtained and leave only the files in the root (top level) and the win98 folder.

Save the ISO file. I used Daemon Tools Pro for this. UltraISO also works.

The reason that we need to delete the other folders is that the E2B copy process will fail if there are too many files.

Also, we don't need these folders to install Windows 98.

If you like, you can try the ISO without editing it first, but it may fail to load or install properly.

4. If the ISO is not bootable (check with 7Zip - Open Archive, look for a [BOOT] folder containing a Bootable_1.44M.img file) then you will need to find and download an MS-DOS floppy disk image.

If the ISO does contain a bootable 1.44Mb floppy image as [BOOT], you only need the ISO file and you do not need a separate .IMG file.

4a. If your Win98SE ISO is bootable:

Simply copy the reduced-size ISO (approx 180MB) to the E2B USB drive _ISOMAINMENU folder and rename the file to have the .ISODOS01 file extension

(optional) Create a .txt file of the same name as the Win98SE ISO containing the menu entry that you want to appear in the E2B Main menu instead of just the name of the ISODOS01 file - e.g.:

title Win98SE Install (ISO)n Choose 2 Boot from CD-ROM then 3 without CD-ROM option 2n Run FDISK to partition the HDDn Then reboot and run Format.n Change to drive B: and type Setup to install Win98

This completes the USB drive preparation if your Win98SE ISO was bootable.

4b. If your Win98SE ISO is not bootable:

Copy the reduced-size Win98SE ISO and the .IMG file to the _ISOMAINMENUWin98 folder (you will need to make a Win98 folder on the E2B USB drive)

Use Notepad to create a new file at _ISOMAINMENUInstWin98SE.mnu with the following contents (change the filenames in bold type to match your filenames):

title Win98SE Install (ISO+FD IMG)n Choose non-CDROM option 2n Run FDISK to partition the HDDn Then reboot and run Format.n Change to drive B: and type Setup
cat --length=0 %ISO% ;; set /a LEN=*0x8290 ;; echo Length of %ISO% is %LEN% bytes
# Allow for PBR sectors etc. - must be FAT16 so over 0x20000
# call the copy batch file - first parameter is either (fd0) or (fd1) - next parameter is size of virtual drive (0x100000=512MiB)
pause --wait=3 PLEASE NOTE: Contents of CD are now on drive B:
# set number of floppies seen by BIOS - must be 2 if using (fd1) instead of (fd0)
chainloader /io.sys chainloader /kernel.sys chainloader (0xff)

5. Be sure to run WinContig (RMPrepUSB - Ctrl+F2) to make all the files contiguous.

You should now have a bootable USB drive with which can install Win98SE.

Installing Windows 98SE

1. Boot from the USB E2B drive on the target system.

Select the .isodos01 file and run it.

If you see some error messages as the files are copied to memory, this is usually because the ISO contains files with long filenames - these are not required for the install process and so won't cause a problem.

Note that Win98 will make the first hard disk partition Active and MS-DOS bootable. Therefore the first internal hard disk will be modified by this process even if you install Win98 to a different hard disk or partition!

2. If you see a message to boot from the Hard Disk or CD-ROM, choose the 'Boot from CD-ROM' option. Note: After 10 seconds it may automatically try to boot from the hard drive - so watch for the menu - don't walk away!

3. When you see a message like that below, choose Option 3 to boot without CD-ROM support:

We need to format the target system's drive as FAT32.

Type FDISK and press the ENTER key and answer 'Y' to the questions about large disk support.

Now select option 5 and check that Disk 1 is the drive that you want to install Win98 onto.

If it is not then be warned that if you proceed, the Win98 Setup process may make boot loader changes to Disk 1 anyway as it will treat it as the Win98 boot drive even if you later choose to install Win98 to a different drive volume!

5. Press <ESC> to return to the main FDISK Options menu and use the menu to create a DOS Primary bootable partition on Disk 1.

When this has been created, you must reboot again from the Win98SE ISO using E2B exactly as before (repeat steps 1-4 above).

Note: FDISK may be old and may not work with large hard drives properly! In 1998, all hard disks were IDEATAPI (not SATA) and were smaller than 137GB!

You may have problems if your hard disk is larger than 137GB. FDISK may report 'weird' sizes.

6. Now we can format the new partition. Run FDISK again and choose Option 5 again - check that Drive C: is on the target drive (we don't want to format our USB drive!).

If all looks OK, quit FDISK and type

to format the drive. (on Windows ME, format.com will be in the B:Win9x folder).

7. Now we are ready to install Windows 98 to the blank, freshly formatted (FAT32) drive C:.

At the MS-DOS command prompt, type B: and press the ENTER key to switch to the B: drive.

Now type SETUP and then press the ENTER key. This starts the Windows install process.

If you get an error about a TEMP folder, type the following commands to make Setup use a folder on the B: drive as a temporary folder:

mkdir B:TEMP

Use C:Windows as the install folder.

When requested to make Startup (floppy) Disk, click Next and then Cancel.

8. The Win98 Setup process will restart several times - you can remove the E2B USB drive at this point so that it reboots directly from the internal hard disk.

If you boot from the E2B USB key (e.g. if using a VM) then just press F7 in the E2B menu to boot from the internal hard disk again.

I successfully used a Win98 key BPKBQ-?????-?????-?????-28FW3 after the first restart of a Retail Win98SE install (Google for it!).

If you find your E2B USB drive no longer boots to the E2B menu, try RMPrepUSB - Install grub4dos - MBR=Y to fix it.