I need help installing win98. When I first got it it worked fine and that was that. 
Later I reformated and installed windows xp and copied the win98 disk onto the hard 
drive and zipped it up. About a year later I got an old empy computer and decided 
to boot up 98 again but had discovered that the cd had been long crushed in a box. 
I remembered that I had saved the disk and zipped it and still had a copy of a win98 
floppy boot disk. I uncompressed the disk and used Deepburner to burn it onto a cdr. 
It fails to work. I need to know how to remake a usable win98se cd from the saved 
copy on my computer. I really need some advice. 

Thanks,
Nick

P.S. I gave up on 95. (made me pull too much hair out)

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Making your own Windows 98 distro CD Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 7:43 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |I need help installing win98... |I...copied the win98 disk onto the hard drive and zipped it up. | Nick | I see trouble coming. |and used Deepburner to burn it onto a cdr. It fails to work. | There it is. |I need to know how to remake a usable win98se cd |from the saved copy on my computer. | *Useable* is easy. Unless you had write errors, it IS useable. **Bootable** is another issue. Make a bootable *floppy* and use the CD **after** you get the PC booted. There are 3 ways that folks use to make a 98 boot floppy: cache of http://vb.clant2k.com/printthread.php?t=16993 +Bootdisk.com+SYS-A+Add-Remove-Programs If you ARE using a boot floppy and the CD still ain't installing the OS, burn another CD at the SLOWEST possible speed and use the best media you can afford. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Making your own Windows 98 distro CD Friday, March 10, 2006 at 7:25 am Posted by Jeno (242 messages posted) Hey Nick - I suggest you review Microsoft's copyright infringement laws before you go to much further. It's illegal to make ANY copy of MS software!! On Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 7:43 pm, gewg_ wrote: >|I need help installing win98... >|I...copied the win98 disk onto the hard drive and zipped it up. >| Nick >| >I see trouble coming. > >|and used Deepburner to burn it onto a cdr. It fails to work. >| >There it is. > >|I need to know how to remake a usable win98se cd >|from the saved copy on my computer. >| >*Useable* is easy. Unless you had write errors, it IS useable. >**Bootable** is another issue. > >Make a bootable *floppy* and use the CD **after** you get the PC booted. >There are 3 ways that folks use to make a 98 boot floppy: >cache of http://vb.clant2k.com/printthread.php?t=16993 >+Bootdisk.com+SYS-A+Add-Remove-Programs > >If you ARE using a boot floppy and the CD still ain't installing the OS, >burn another CD at the SLOWEST possible speed >and use the best media you can afford. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Making your own Windows 98 distro CD Friday, March 10, 2006 at 9:21 am Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |Hey Nick |It's illegal to make ANY copy of MS software! | Jeno Quit spouting nonsense and read more than the Subject line. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Help! Windows 98 burning Friday, March 10, 2006 at 9:33 am Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |I need help installing win98. | Nick BTW, what were you planning to do for a 98 Product Key? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Making your own Windows 98 distro CD Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 7:17 pm Posted by Nick (18 messages posted) I had no idea at the time that it was illegal to copy the soft ware. I copied it when I originally bought it in case the disk broke. It did but I had already copied it to another hard drive. Everything nowadays is illegal. EVERYTHING! They dont want you to have a backup of your product. That YOU bought. With YOUR money. It's even worse now than it was before. I have recently re purchased a new copy of win98se and can only make sure that dam cd doesn't get the slightest bit of damage. Thanks for the help though. Nick P.S. to the guy who said what I'd do for an id key, I have or rather had my own. I purchased the copy legally. I planned on using its original key again. Oh well, new cd, new key. On Friday, March 10, 2006 at 9:21 am, gewg_ wrote: >|Hey Nick >|It's illegal to make ANY copy of MS software! >| Jeno > >Quit spouting nonsense and read more than the Subject line. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Making your own Windows 98 distro CD Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 8:50 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |I had no idea at the time that it was illegal to copy the soft ware. | Nick | From Jeno's post, it appears that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 has turned many of us into slack-jawed automatons, afraid of our own shadows. OEMs copy Windows CDs to hard drives all the time so it is obviously NOT illegal to make of copy of one.[1] |...to the guy who said what I'd do for an id key | I was the one who mentioned that. |I purchased the copy legally. I planned on using its original key again. | One Windows Product Key is a representation of your license to INSTALL Windows on a single machine. You wouldn't believe the number of folks we get here who try to do a clean install--without their Product Keys in hand. They want to know how to find their numbers now that they have formatted their drives. [1] You can make as many copies of the install CD as you want --as long as you don't try to sell them or make additional installations. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Making your own Windows 98 distro CD Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 11:58 pm Posted by Lee (172 messages posted) It is NOT illegal to make backup copies of any software in any form(s) you see fit. Was that a zipped .iso file then? Or in other words, exactly how did you archive the original CD? Perhaps that's where the problem is? Did you test the archive just after you made it? Your original Product Key will work just fine with a reconstructed CD from your archived copy provided you did it right. OR just use your recently purchased CD with it's own Product Key. PS - make a copy and use it for every day use so that the original doesn't get scratched up. Make a valid (and test it now) .iso image and store that on a hard drive because home burnt CDs only last three years or so before the data on them starts going bad. So you'll need to make another backup copy for daily use down the road sometime. On Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 7:17 pm, Nick wrote: >I had no idea at the time that it was illegal to copy the soft ware. I copied it >when I originally bought it in case the disk broke. It did but I had already copied >it to another hard drive. Everything nowadays is illegal. EVERYTHING! They dont want >you to have a backup of your product. That YOU bought. With YOUR money. It's even >worse now than it was before. I have recently re purchased a new copy of win98se >and can only make sure that dam cd doesn't get the slightest bit of damage. Thanks >for the help though. > >Nick > >P.S. to the guy who said what I'd do for an id key, I have or rather had my own. >I purchased the copy legally. I planned on using its original key again. Oh well, >new cd, new key. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum