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cleverscreenname said:
Yes, those install disks have a boot sector. The only Windows install disks that aren't bootable are 16-bit Windows, such as 3.1 and earlier, because they need to run on top of DOS.
There isn't much performance difference between 98f, 98se, and ME, they can all tweak to the same speed.
Win95 is quite a bit lighter on CPU and RAM though, since IE isn't integrated into the shell yet (unless you're running 95c lol).
You don't need to buy it though, this CD and most other Microsoft releases are freely available on https://archive.org/details/windows-98-first-edition_202506
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Thanks for the reply, but I would rather buy a legit copy, I have a copy of Windows 95 with USB support but I don't have the boot disk, is there any safe (and I mean really safe) programs to image to floppy disks, from a well known brand, and no, I am not using winimage, it says the floppies don't match.
 
cleverscreenname said:
Yes, those install disks have a boot sector. The only Windows install disks that aren't bootable are 16-bit Windows, such as 3.1 and earlier, because they need to run on top of DOS.
There isn't much performance difference between 98f, 98se, and ME, they can all tweak to the same speed.
Win95 is quite a bit lighter on CPU and RAM though, since IE isn't integrated into the shell yet (unless you're running 95c lol).
You don't need to buy it though, this CD and most other Microsoft releases are freely available on https://archive.org/details/windows-98-first-edition_202506
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So you are sure that upgrade copies of 98FE are bootable?
 
WindowsUser101 said:
Thanks for the reply, but I would rather buy a legit copy, I have a copy of Windows 95 with USB support but I don't have the boot disk, is there any safe (and I mean really safe) programs to image to floppy disks, from a well known brand, and no, I am not using winimage, it says the floppies don't match.
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You want to "image disks" safely???

First, you need to upload your imaging software to this site and have it anally inspected...... (same as the source software).

VirusTotal

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www.virustotal.com www.virustotal.com

Then, just for extra protection, I would recommend installing safely straps on your office chair, wear some basic protection like gloves and a face shield... maybe some ear plugs as well. If you smell smoke while imaging the disks, unplug that machine as quick as possible!!!
 
ImWolf said:
You want to "image disks" safely???

First, you need to upload your imaging software to this site and have it anally inspected...... (same as the source software).

VirusTotal

VirusTotal
www.virustotal.com www.virustotal.com

Then, just for extra protection, I would recommend installing safely straps on your office chair, wear some basic protection like gloves and a face shield... maybe some ear plugs as well. If you smell smoke while imaging the disks, unplug that machine as quick as possible!!!
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I know that stuff, and it does not need all of that, I can just buy a floppy drive for my XP PC, install 98, and make my own boot disk in 98.
 
What's wrong with CDs? They're much faster and easier, and I bet people give away cd burners these days, I haven't used any of mine in 20 years LOL

My favorite is MagicISO because it has a big Bootable or Non-Bootable button at the top to take the guesswork out. Or just load the .ISO image in a VM and see if it boots, or just send me a link and I'd be glad to check it for you.
 
I've got old IDE 2.5" laptop drives lying around collecting dust, I could send you. Now all 3 of mine (60gb) have bad sectors but the filesystem has them marked and remapped, so simply don't format them unless you want to rescan again. HDD Regen always does a good job for me. I see what you mean now about floppy.
So maybe that laptop doesn't even have a cd drive, eh? Looking at my CD's yep both win95c (built in usb support) and win98f are 108mb. win95b (fat32 support) is 47mb and the USB addon is 1mb, and win95a is also 47mb. that's 17 floppies if it's the high capacity 2mb official microsoft diskettes (non-standard formatting).
I guess if this was mine I would first run HDD Regen or SpinRite to see if I can make the existing hard drive usable without too many slowdowns. I'm more familiar with the former than the latter, and I know it shows you a graph of where the bad sectors are. That way if space isn't a problem you can shrink your OS partition to exclude the problem areas to get full speed.
 
cleverscreenname said:
I've got old IDE 2.5" laptop drives lying around collecting dust, I could send you. Now all 3 of mine (60gb) have bad sectors but the filesystem has them marked and remapped, so simply don't format them unless you want to rescan again. HDD Regen always does a good job for me. I see what you mean now about floppy.
So maybe that laptop doesn't even have a cd drive, eh? Looking at my CD's yep both win95c (built in usb support) and win98f are 108mb. win95b (fat32 support) is 47mb and the USB addon is 1mb, and win95a is also 47mb. that's 17 floppies if it's the high capacity 2mb official microsoft diskettes (non-standard formatting).
I guess if this was mine I would first run HDD Regen or SpinRite to see if I can make the existing hard drive usable without too many slowdowns. I'm more familiar with the former than the latter, and I know it shows you a graph of where the bad sectors are. That way if space isn't a problem you can shrink your OS partition to exclude the problem areas to get full speed.
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The max HDD size is 8GB, and It does have a CD-ROM drive, I have Windows 95 with USB support (official copy) but no boot disk.
 
Well I mean the max hd space your laptop can use is 8gb, the rest of the hdd would sit unused. It's just CHS vs LBA addressing in the BIOS, plus I bet there's custom addressing schemes to get around that limitation, similar to that thread on this forum about how a lot of the external drives are showing greater than 2TB to XP systems.
 
cleverscreenname said:
Well I mean the max hd space your laptop can use is 8gb, the rest of the hdd would sit unused. It's just CHS vs LBA addressing in the BIOS, plus I bet there's custom addressing schemes to get around that limitation, similar to that thread on this forum about how a lot of the external drives are showing greater than 2TB to XP systems.
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Idk. I think I will just buy one of those 8GB IDE SSDs
 
Ahhh, that makes sense. It's simply a case with a IDE-CF adapter and an 8gb CompactFlash card inside. I've actually done the exact same thing on my Compaq laptop. Just be aware that CF speed is similar to hard drive speed on read and slower on write. Yep, swap file can be disabled on any Windows system, of course you won't be able to use more programs simultaneously than your system's RAM. I usually use ewfWriteFilter on my CF to make it read only and avoid the writing performance hit.
 
cleverscreenname said:
Ahhh, that makes sense. It's simply a case with a IDE-CF adapter and an 8gb CompactFlash card inside. I've actually done the exact same thing on my Compaq laptop. Just be aware that CF speed is similar to hard drive speed on read and slower on write. Yep, swap file can be disabled on any Windows system, of course you won't be able to use more programs simultaneously than your system's RAM. I usually use ewfWriteFilter on my CF to make it read only and avoid the writing performance hit.
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Oh, you have a Compaq laptop? Nice, which one? Also I installed Windows Me on my XP machine and connected the USB floppy I have, it worked and Windows Me has a feature to make a boot disk, it made it, and It works perfectly, but I think I need a new CD-ROM drive for my Compaq, also the Compaq I got from an E-Waste bin for free, it looks new and it came with the original case, So now I have a boot disk for my Windows 95 with USB support disc, after 4 years of having that 95, I can install it, when I get the SSD.
 
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