start up disk

Hello,

tried to create start up disk for win98SE. computer keeps asking for
installation disk even though its in cdrom. computer crashed years ago and
was reinstalled by computer company. could another version of o/s have been
installed and the original disk i have be the problem? If so, is there
another way to create start up disk

The path to the CDRom drive is probably wrong. 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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Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"rc" rc@home wrote in message
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Hello,

tried to create start up disk for win98SE. computer keeps asking for
installation disk even though its in cdrom. computer crashed years ago
and was reinstalled by computer company. could another version of o/s
have been installed and the original disk i have be the problem? If so,
is there another way to create start up disk

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 10:54:52 -0400, "rc" rc@home wrote:

Hello,

tried to create start up disk for win98SE. computer keeps asking for
installation disk even though its in cdrom. computer crashed years ago and
was reinstalled by computer company. could another version of o/s have been
installed and the original disk i have be the problem? If so, is there
another way to create start up disk


You can create a Win98 Startup (System) diskette with all the
necessary files and generic CDrom support four ways:

1. In the Control Panel/Add New Programs.

2. Run the Bootdisk.bat file in the C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND folder.
You need the Windows\Command\ebd folder for this to work.The folder
is created if a Startup diskette was made during the Windows
install. This will work from Dos also. You will not need your CD
for this. From a Dos prompt change to the Windows\Command folder and
enter Bootdisk.

3. Run the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the Win98 CD in the
Tools/Mtsutil/Fat32ebd directory. Do this from any Windows machine.
This diskette will be lacking the Extract utility and some others.
OK for installing Windows, but make a regular one when you can.

4. You can also download one from www.bootdisk.com
Run the download, don't copy it to the diskette.

One, two and four create a temporary Ram drive for Dos utilities so
your CD will be one drive letter higher temporarily while using
either one. e.g D: to E: The diskette made from www.bootdisk.com
may use the letter R:.
Use these if you will be needing Dos utilities.

Test it, make sure you can access your CD with it.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/