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Old July 13th 04, 03:49 AM
Tammy
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Default Win.98 start up disk

Bought used compaq computer. Everything removed. Trying
to install win.98 as the op.system. Unable to locate
start up disk. Downloaded one from microsoft, still no
luck. I would be greatful for any advice.
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Old July 13th 04, 04:05 AM
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Default Win.98 start up disk

www.bootdisk.com Download the Win98 startup disk
somewhere convenient like the desktop, put in a fresh
floppy, click the file and the startup files will extract
to the floppy. Theres your startup disk :-)

-----Original Message-----
Bought used compaq computer. Everything removed. Trying
to install win.98 as the op.system. Unable to locate
start up disk. Downloaded one from microsoft, still no
luck. I would be greatful for any advice.
.

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Old July 13th 04, 01:41 PM
Ron Badour
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Default Win.98 start up disk

You can make a floppy boot disk with the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the
W98 CD: tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd or you can download one he
http://www.bootdisk.com/

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Bought used compaq computer. Everything removed. Trying
to install win.98 as the op.system. Unable to locate
start up disk. Downloaded one from microsoft, still no
luck. I would be greatful for any advice.



 




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