BOOT SOFTWARE

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I have Windows 98, Windows ME, and Windows 2000 in ISOs. What program, that
runs in Vista, can I use to burn these and create them bootable? I would like
to install Windows 2000 for a friend, but I don't know how to do it. I tried
Nero, but it wouldn't work, but I have the original XP CD, which I bought at
a very high price, and when I made a copy of it, it did work.

Another question, how can I do the same thing (burn ISO image to CD) for
Windows 3.11?
 
You do not make Win 98 or Win ME bootable. They are not bootable images.
You use the Setup diskette that comes with them to prep a hard drive and
format. Then you run the setup.exe from the cd. If you need a setup
diskette you can download a makedisk file from bootdisk.com.

The Windows 2000 image is already bootable.

All you have to do with all three .iso files is "burn image to disc."

I haven't tried the cd/dvd burning software in Vista but from all reports
I've read that will do the job.
 
Thanks.

What CD/DVD software comes with Vista? Media Player and DVD Maker?

I ripped a DVD, it is saved in my external hard-drive. I used to just go to
Nero and burn it, but the program that is not compatible is the one I need.
Which other one can I use?
 
DJ TECH said:
IF 98 and ME are not bootable, then how do you make them work in Virtual
PC
and VMWare
Click to expand...

You install the operating system under VirtualPC the same way you do as if
you were installing to a hard drive. You boot the virtual machine from the
floppy and install Windows98.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
MVP Windows Shell/User
(using Vista 5384)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew half as much as you think you know,
You would realize you don't know what you thought you knew.
 
If it is an MSDN dvd then you correctly copied off the .iso files.

I took a quick look and DVD Maker and I don't think that's what you want. I
don't see the proper functions. Anyway, you want to make a cd.

What happens if you insert a blank cd and choose Open Folder and drag the
image file into it? What options do you get?

I must confess I have been using Roxio EMC 8 on XP Pro x64 to burn the image
files to disc.
 
As I said, with the accompanying Setup floppies. If you do not have Setup
floppies for Win98SE or WinME then download them from bootdisk.com to a
computer with a floppy drive.

Download them to the desktop. For each downloaded file, double click on the
file and you will be instructed to put a formatted floppy in A: and then the
makedisk program will create a bootable floppy that will boot the vm into
DOS.

To boot the vm with the new floppy, put the floppy in A:, start the vm, and
capture the A: drive with the menu for the floppy icon in the lower left of
the VPC Console. You may need to use Restart on the Action Menu on the VPC
Console if you didn't capture the A: drive in time. The Setup floppy will
give you three choices. Choose Boot with CD Support. Take your time.

You have to run Fdisk to prep the virtual hard drive and then you do Format
C: Once the vhd is formatted you change to the cd drive and run "setup".
This is the way Win9x/ME has always been installed. It really has nothing
to do with which virtualization program you are using. That is how you
create a Win9x/ME computer. If you don't have a built in floppy drive, a
usb floppy will work fine. They are very inexpensive.
 
I have done 1,000's of installs of 98 and unfortunately 100's of installs of
Me. Just to be sure I pulled out a couple of OEM CDs and tried it. Both the
98SE and Me OEM CDs booted to a menu with a choice of Installing Windows,
DOS with CD support, or DOS without CD support. I'm sure the retail CD's
also boot but I don't have any handy to try it.
 
I have one such OEM Win98 cd, but my retail editions do not boot and came
with the Setup floppy. You cannot count on a user having a bootable cd.
 
That's strange. I don't ever remember seeing one that didn't boot. I usually
installed the OEM versions with the OPK from a network share but I did do a
lot by booting from the CD. I haven't done that many retail installs of 98
so maybe my memory is faulty. I'll have to dig up a 98 retail CD and try it.
 
I have a couple bootable OEM Dell ME CDs. I got them with a PC. I know
they are bootable but I'd like to try to say when I used them it was during
the psychidelic years and I remember using an ME CD which booted into setup
during 60's and 70's with Jefferson Airplane music in the background. White
Rabbit was playing in the background everytime I went into ME setup--I
assumed this was a perk from MSFT.

The retail 98 CDs I know were bootable.

I always understood that a 98 and and ME CD were bootable just as Win 2K,
XP, and VavaVista. I thought first of using them for substandard frisbees
for my dog, but didn't want to ever put pure crap in his mouth. So I put
them up agaist a concerete wall and used the for AK 47 target practice.

I know the ME CDs are bootable. 98 I'm not completely sure but don't these
suggest they are? I know there are ways to do it with Knoppix and Bart's
ect.

Speaking of White Rabbit I hear it again in the background, because if MSFT
ended support for Win 98 and ME as I read on July 11, 2006 and today is July
14, 2006 then all the Win 9X MSKBs are still in place so support is not
completely ended--document support is alive and well. Great to know anytime
I want to reach for a KB that discusses esoteric segments of Win 9X I can.

Description of Windows 98 Setup Process
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/195568/EN-US/

How to install Windows 98: helpful tips and suggestions
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188881/EN-US/

CH
 
I think some OEM (major system builder) cd's were bootable, but the retail
and standard OEM cd's were not. Clearly, there are non-bootable cd's out
there.
 
Right - and I a have a few copies of them. They definitly cannot be used to
boot the machine - Win95 / Win98 / Win98 se and WinME CD-ROMs that do not
boot.
 
Maybe Canada got different CD's. I tried two more generic OEM CD's, one 98
and one 98SE. They both booted. I can't find a retail CD to try it. I did
try a "not for sale" 98SE CD that I got from a Microsoft event years ago. It
booted. I don't know if was a retail or OEM version.
 
I suspect the OEM CDs were bootable and the retail upgrades were not. "Not
for Sale" markings likely indicate an OEM disc.

 
Usually "Not for sale" items given away at MS events are full retail but not
always. This thread is way off topic anyway so let's just let it die aloing
with Win98 :-)
 
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