Windows 98

hells3000

hells3000

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How do I make a bootable disket from the cd?

I am trying to make windows 2000 to windows 98 (down grade)
Will it work?
 
You could always reformat... I don't know if you can downgrade for sure or not, but reformatting is a last resort option. :)
 
Windows is asking to reformat the floppy disk :/
I take the floppy disk out and double click it again and same thing again :/
 
You can't convert NTFS to Fat32 while XP itself can see Fat32 converted to NTFS type partitions. In order to run 98 there you will have to delete the existing 2000 primary partition first. If you have problems with fdisk the Linux people came out with GParted live for cd that will remove "any" partition and even various types for different OSs. Windows Fat16, Fat32, NTFS, the Linux type of VFat, Solaris, etc..

Is your hard drive over a certain size limit for fdisk? The updated version of fdisk can be downloaded and used to replace the original once the 98 boot floppy is made up. The links for the updated version of fdisk are seen at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263044

What about drives that are larger then 100-120gb? Even the update has it's own limitations. One example of installing a 98 single primary partition on a WD drive is to download WD's own DRFat32. Seagate, Maxtor, and others may provide their own bios bypass type of drive utility for larger capacity.
 
PC eye said:
You can't convert NTFS to Fat32 while XP itself can see Fat32 converted to NTFS type partitions. In order to run 98 there you will have to delete the existing 2000 primary partition first. If you have problems with fdisk the Linux people came out with GParted that will remove "any" partition and even various types for different OSs. Windows Fat16, Fat32, NTFS, the Linux type of VFat, Solaris, etc..

Is your hard drive over a certain size limit for fdisk? The updated version of fdisk can be downloaded and used to replace the original once the 98 boot floppy is made up. The links for the updated version of fdisk are seen at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263044

What about drives that are larger then 100-120gb? Even the update has it's own limitations. One example of installing a 98 single primary partition on a WD drive is to download WD's own DRFat32. Seagate, Maxtor, and others may provide their own bios bypass type of drive utility for larger capacity.
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Thanks
what type of media will this have to be saved to ?
Cd or dvd media or does not matter?
 
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Essentially you would need to go with what you have available. If you have a cd or dvd burner you would burn data disks there for saving files onto removable media that is easier to restore from later. Since you haven't listed the system hardwares here or in your sig it makes it a little harder to point at just what to use. I'm sure if you have large sized files or tons of small ones you don't want to spend a week working with 1.44mb floppies! :eek: :P
 
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