#How to make a bootable windows 98 usb how to#
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If you have a bootable USB / floppy, skip to the Copy KillDisk section, below. For hard drives on PCs with operating systems other than DOS or Windows, you must create a DOS-bootable USB / floppy on a DOS or Windows machine and use it on your alternate-OS machine. Prepare bootable USB, floppy (startup KillDisk operates from the USB / floppy drive in a Microsoft DOS environment.

#How to make a bootable windows 98 usb software#

So thank you for this great software (after all) ).3.1. Thank goodness FreeDOS is readable under MS-DOS as well.

#How to make a bootable windows 98 usb how to#

So Rufus did help me after all, just had to find a way how to get access to the data on the FreeDOS-formatted USB drive. > Success! Pen drive finally recognized, LUN set and assigned to drive letter S:

#How to make a bootable windows 98 usb drivers#

(2.3.2) Answered all pop-up request boxes with 'No' (we need no ASPI drivers for our case).

(2.3.1) Selected 1st option (Panasonic) AND UHCI for old PCs, as we're not on USB 2.0, but 1.1.

> Next task to solve: Get the data (flash tool + BIN file) off the USB just by accessing it from DOS.

#How to make a bootable windows 98 usb Pc#

(1) Used Rufus to make a bootable FreeDOS 'disk' on my pen drive, which I could NOT boot from on the PC with the old board.

Thanks to Rufus and its developer, I could make it happen, but NOT with a bootable disk. Or at least it did not accept the pen drive I chose for booting, whilst-read on-this worked perfectly on my main PC. It's a very old board (that still came with USB 1.1) that I wanted to flash, whilst booting from USB was NOT possible. I only need console mode, because AWDFLASH will instantly refuse to work when anything Windows-like is running or residing in Wish it only was so easy!! I never planned to run the GUI of Win98 with that, nor would I ever want to do so in future. NOTE: When I meant 'Windows 98' I actually meant DOS7 that comes with it. And Rufus will happily create a DOS bootable disk for you.

Why on earth would you want to use Win98 for DOS based tools? Win98 is NOT the perfect choice for flashing BIOSes. There is such thing as prioritization and not trying to add every single possible feature under the sun.Д«esides, you do realize that Rufus does allow you to create either a FreeDOS or MS-DOS boot disk to run your DOS flash tools. Plus, the error message couldn't be any more cryptic tech lingo.ДЄnd I can't believe that some people don't understand that developers who aren't paid for it, and provide software absolutely for free, don't want to waste their limited spare time supporting an Operating System that is completely obsolete by now, instead of using that same time to, say, improve accessibility for visually impaired persons, something that will benefit a lot more people than the dozen or so people who, in 2015, think that using Windows 98 is a good choice. I can't believe that Rufus and its author like to block this important functionality just by stubbornly relying on their stupid WinPE thing.ДЄnd please excuse the tone, but I've already wasted more than half a hour because of this for nothing. I've also scoured the net about this and dozens of users have run into this issue, ending up with manually copying 98/98SE or using other tools.

Rufus is a great tool pointing in the very right direction - but when it comes to 98/98SE, you will try in vain. Would there be any way to convince Rufus to write Win98/Win98SE to a pen drive? Consider that most of the flashing tools themselves are for DOS. Still, Win98/Win98SE still ARE the perfect choice for flashing BIOSes etc. WinPE is mainly used for XP/7/Vista/8 but not for Win98/Win98SE. Rufus will always complain that the ISO is neither based of winpe/bootmgr nor ISOLINUX. Well, I've tried so many of them now, but Rufus simple does not accept them.