On Friday, February 22, 2008 at 11:04 am, gewg_ wrote:
|Keith also assumed that your CD media is bootable.  It might not be.

|It is possible that your CD drive isn't bootable either (I haven't checked).

Now this is something that I was told about on another forum read 
here. I've never had to use this facility because I've always used a boot disk 
with CD Rom support for 14 years. The fact that Eyesee says "Definitely not 
an original 98 cd. That explains why it wont boot!"

I can't get my head around this one. If someone has copied a Win98 CD then depending 
on what software they have used it should do an exact copy of the original. So if 
it was bootable before it should be bootable afterwards.

|Keith did mention CMOS Setup
|(and, like 99% of the people who talk about it, incorrectly called it "BIOS").

I've always known it as the BIOS. BasicInputOoutputSystem. 
If you do a search for BIOS you get 124,000,000 replies. If you search for CMOS you 
only get 23,800,000 so which term is more common?

|The BIG thing that Keith neglected to ask is
|Do you have a Windows Product Key for the W98 CD?

I didn't ask this because if someone has a Win98 CD then they must have the serial 
number or search the web for it.
 

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