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How do I make a USB Pen Drive bootable to Win98SE DOS? I've tried
unsuccessfully several times and can't do it. I need it to run Ghost to do my machine backups instead of first using a Win98SE boot disk followed by a second disk to run Ghost. I've also tried to make a bootable CD but that failed too. |
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=?Utf-8?B?aGlsbHl0aGVtYW4=?= wrote:
How do I make a USB Pen Drive bootable to Win98SE DOS? I've tried unsuccessfully several times and can't do it. I need it to run Ghost to do my machine backups instead of first using a Win98SE boot disk followed by a second disk to run Ghost. I've also tried to make a bootable CD but that failed too. For both a bootable CD and a bootable Pen drive you'll need your BIOS to support this. The CD or Pen drive contains an image of a bootable floppy, and the BIOS will emulate a floppydrive for this. You need special software to put the image on the pen drive. Have a look he http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1112731,00.html I don't know if it's possible to do this from within W98. |
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"hillytheman" wrote in message
... How do I make a USB Pen Drive bootable to Win98SE DOS? I've tried unsuccessfully several times and can't do it. I need it to run Ghost to do my machine backups instead of first using a Win98SE boot disk followed by a second disk to run Ghost. I've also tried to make a bootable CD but that failed too. 1. You cannot boot Win98 from a USB drive. (Think through the sequence in which you boot MS-DOS from a floppy, including CD drivers. MS-DOS must itself be loaded before the sequence can process the drivers necessary to activate CD drives. Any component added via USB requires a sequence like this twice over, first to load USB version 1 or 2 and then to load device-specific drivers. The USB drive cannot itself load the drivers needed to activate itself. Floppies manage this OK when the BIOS is set to boot from a floppy: but the BIOS cannot do the same for a USB device.) 2. You do not need a USB drive either to clone your C: drive or to create a bootable CD. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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hillytheman wrote:
How do I make a USB Pen Drive bootable to Win98SE DOS? I've tried unsuccessfully several times and can't do it. I need it to run Ghost to do my machine backups instead of first using a Win98SE boot disk followed by a second disk to run Ghost. I've also tried to make a bootable CD but that failed too. Hillytheman: Try these sites: http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardwa...omusbstick.php http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/usbkeys HTH & GL John -- \\\||/// ------------------o000----(o)(o)----000o---------------- ----------------------------()-------------------------- '' Madness takes its toll - Please have exact change. '' John Dulak - Gnomeway Services - http://tinyurl.com/2qs6o6 |
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"hillytheman" wrote in message ... How do I make a USB Pen Drive bootable to Win98SE DOS? I've tried unsuccessfully several times and can't do it. I need it to run Ghost to do my machine backups instead of first using a Win98SE boot disk followed by a second disk to run Ghost. I've also tried to make a bootable CD but that failed too. I just made the Ghost disk bootable .... sys a: |
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