re: A 2-part question
Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 11:39 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1593 messages posted)
Jim,
Save the BootDisk.exe to the Desktop
The Boot Disk is CREATED BY the file you downloaded. . With the New, formatted floppy
in A:\, Open the .exe file on the Desktop to create the BootDisk on the Floppy
The Fdisk.exe file will download to A:\.( different floppy) Open the .zip file to
extraxt Fdisk.exe on the Floppy, then right drag the file "Fdisk.exe" to the desktop
to COPY it.
Reinsert the New BootDisk in A:\ and right drag/drop Fdisk.exe to A:\. Answer yes
to overwrite prompt . Done
Probably not necessary to change setup to A:\. If there is no CD in the drive, Windows
will check A:\ next anyway, as long as HDD is last in boot order.
The error message reflects that the BootDisk was not created on the floppy. As is,
it's just another file.
BW
On Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 5:10 am, Jim Helwig wrote:
>Hi Bob, I've tried (twice) on the boot disk, no luck. Here's what I did. I inserted
>a clean, formatted diskette, downloaded the boot disk (oem) info onto it. This is
>an .exe file. I then downloaded the fdisk which was further down the page onto the
>floppy - again, this was an .exe file. I then had to get into "Setup" to change
the
>boot drive from my CD-Rom over to the A: drive, verified that it was "looking" for
>a 1.44 diskette (it was). Re-booted and got the message "invalid system disk, replace
>and press any key". I repeated the process (first formatting the diskette again
to
>remove all files), same error message. Any ideas?
>
>
>
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