Network Setup Wizard detected that this computer has no floppy dis

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I am trying to include a windows 98 computer in a home and small office
network with two windows xp computers. I go through the set up with the
wizard and it gets to the point where it wants to make a disk. Then the
message comes back "The wizard has detected that this computer has no floppy
disk drives or other removable media. You need such a device to creat a
network setup disk." If I use Media player to write to the disk it works
fine. Also, I have made this work before on this computer. Any ideas
 
Hi
You do not need any Wizard or data transfer. Configure manually the network
setting in Win98.
However any time when configuring the network's settings on Win98 you need
to provide the original Win98 CD (so you need there a CD drive), or have
Win98 root install, and CAB files somewhere in a folder on the Hard drive.
Jack (MVP-Networking).
 
I am trying to include a windows 98 computer in a home and small office
network with two windows xp computers. I go through the set up with the
wizard and it gets to the point where it wants to make a disk. Then the
message comes back "The wizard has detected that this computer has no floppy
disk drives or other removable media. You need such a device to creat a
network setup disk." If I use Media player to write to the disk it works
fine. Also, I have made this work before on this computer. Any ideas
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There's no need to run the Wizard disk on the Windows 98 computer.
You can make the network settings manually.

If you want to run the Wizard, copy the Wizard's executable file to a
CD or USB flash drive on XP:

C:\Windows\System32\Netsetup.exe
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