burning installation cd

I am thinking about getting an old laptop with Win 98, but these often
seem to come only without a disk to restore the operating system if the
hard drive fails. Can anyone tell me if there is a function in Win 98
to create an installation disk that will work in case of having to
replace the hard drive?

On 27 Oct 2006 17:34:44 -0700, wrote:

I am thinking about getting an old laptop with Win 98, but these often
seem to come only without a disk to restore the operating system if the
hard drive fails. Can anyone tell me if there is a function in Win 98
to create an installation disk that will work in case of having to
replace the hard drive?


Nope.

If you want to create a Drive Image then something like Acronis True
Image is very popular these days.

Acronis TI can have you restored in just a few minutes from a total
catastrophe.

Ross

(Just a happy user btw)

(To get email address ROT 13)

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I am thinking about getting an old laptop with Win 98, but these often
seem to come only without a disk to restore the operating system if the
hard drive fails. Can anyone tell me if there is a function in Win 98
to create an installation disk that will work in case of having to
replace the hard drive?

MS never did this but plenty of third parties did.
You will find abundant documentation at www.xxcopy.com

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)