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jjohnn77 - 12 Feb 2005 20:43 GMT

I lost my win98 boot disk, I'm now running win xp pro, I want to install
win98 on an other computer, but I can't seem to find a way to create a new
boot disk from my win xp system, can anyone help?, thankyou all.

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John John - 12 Feb 2005 21:07 GMT

http://bootdisk.com/

(You have to Extract and Create the Boot Disk with the file you
download, just double click the file and follow the instructions.)

John

> I lost my win98 boot disk, I'm now running win xp pro, I want to install
> win98 on an other computer, but I can't seem to find a way to create a new
> boot disk from my win xp system, can anyone help?, thankyou all.

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Jeff Richards - 12 Feb 2005 21:58 GMT

XP questions are best asked in an XP newsgroup.
Please see:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305595
How To Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP

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Jeff Richards
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>I lost my win98 boot disk, I'm now running win xp pro, I want to install
> win98 on an other computer, but I can't seem to find a way to create a new
> boot disk from my win xp system, can anyone help?, thankyou all.

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PattyL - 14 Feb 2005 03:26 GMT

You can use your XP system to create a boot disk by running FAT32EBD.EXE
from the Win98 CD.

You'll find it in the \Tools\Mtsutil\Fat32ebd folder.

PattyL

>I lost my win98 boot disk, I'm now running win xp pro, I want to install
> win98 on an other computer, but I can't seem to find a way to create a new
> boot disk from my win xp system, can anyone help?, thankyou all.

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Jeff Richards - 14 Feb 2005 08:40 GMT

Can you make this work? I always run into a problem with FAT32EBD directly
accessing the hardware, which XP doesn't allow.

Or are you suggesting doing it from a boot to DOS (which is sort of
circular, since OP doesn't have a DOS boot diskette).

Maybe the people in the XP group know how to use this utility in XP.

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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)

> You can use your XP system to create a boot disk by running FAT32EBD.EXE
> from the Win98 CD.
>
> You'll find it in the \Tools\Mtsutil\Fat32ebd folder.

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PattyL - 17 Feb 2005 13:39 GMT

Good catch. By telling it to ignore, I got the Autoexec.bat, the Config.sys
and the Msdos.sys copied to the A drive but not the supporting files. You
could then extract the ones you needed but downloading from Bootdisk.com
would be easier if you had Internet access.

PattyL

> Can you make this work? I always run into a problem with FAT32EBD
> directly accessing the hardware, which XP doesn't allow.
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>> You'll find it in the \Tools\Mtsutil\Fat32ebd folder.

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