Welcome to BleepingComputer, a free community where people like yourself come together to discuss and learn how to use their computers. Using the site is easy and fun. As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site.

• Win98 Boot Files

You can try to copy everything from windows 98/me iso onto flash drive, and try to boot using ploplinux i linked before. Maybe it will work. But if you cant use CD drive you are out of luck, you cant boot usb on very old computers. I spent just about a month on this. You can run Windows 98 SE on you usb flash drive, but when doing this you have no access to your computers hard drive.

Or read our to learn how to use this site. Okay so I've got this pretty old computer that I would like to factory reset.

Well I've got a USB, and an iso, and I would like to reinstall Windows ME (which is what it already has) or Windows 98. It's a Gateway but doesn't have a model number on it so I'm not sure what to say on that, it says 'Designed for Windows 98 or ME' on the front so I guess it was built for both. So I've tried many google ways, but the problem is, I have no idea how to boot from USB. Since it's not DOS based, I can't just enter a command or restart in MS-DOS mode. I can't seem to find a way to boot from the BIOS.

I just want it to be set to factory defaults, any help would be appreciated.

Win98 Boot Files

I have an 2GB usb-stick which win98SE installs fine onto, but then the installer requires a reboot. After this reboot I just see a blinking ' and nothing happens As far as I know it should work, or do have to edit some bios settings or what?

Windows 98 includes the drivers and the issue is that the drivers re-enumerate the bus- severing the connection to the USB drive. This isn't a problem with standard USB devices or whatnot when booting from the HD, but booting from the USB drive is half-supported by the BIOS, and the BIOS expects the OS to finish up. You can get DOS installed onto a Flash drive, simply because DOS doesn't have USB drivers, so the BIOS continues to support INT13 access to the flash drive as if it were an ATA device. Windows 98, since it has USB drivers but didn't take into account that some crazy people might actually boot from a flash drive; that is, it's USB drivers aren't USB aware. And no- typing 'Win 98 usb driver download' into 'the internet' (which I imagine you mean google) won't help. Even with the appropriate win98 driver for the USB drive, the USB BUS driver is the cause of the issue- it needs to enumerate the devices on the BUS and the way it goes about it is simply unfriendly to booting from a device on that bus.

Broni, Virtual PC or similar doesn't support DirectX because the emulated hardware is too old, in MS Virtual PC the graphics is generated through an emulated S3 card and it lacks support of DirectX I have tried VmVare and, well the graphics card is slightly better, but it's a real pain to get the sound working in VmVare However, I'm doing this instad:. Install Win98 on an 8GB partion. Install WinXP on an 30GB Partion. Using the rest as a common storage partion. Create Multiboot, using Acronis OS Selector.