Hi, I have a blank hard drive that i want to install 98SE on. I put my 98SE cd in the drive and boot my pc but 98 doesn't automaticly launch setup like the NT based OS's. What do i have to do to install 98 (i've never install it before). Could somebody give me directions. Thanks

Many Win98 CDs aren't bootable. You'll need a floppy drive & a Win98 boot floppy to be able to run setup. http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm http://www.windowsreinstall.com/win... Just so you know, the file you download from bootdisk.com isn't the boot disk itself, it's the file used to create the boot disk. Some posters have just copied the file directly to a floppy & then wondered why it didn't work. Also, when you boot off the floppy, the CD drive will be "R"

Why a floppy? I can't use a CD? Can boot in dos or something and tell it to ran setup.exe or something.

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The OEM disks are usually bootable but I'm thinking you might be using a torrent download. If so, who knows what you've got. Normally if you successfully boot from the cd you'll get a menu similar to the one you get when using a bootdisk.

after booting by what ever means you have, navigate to the Win98 folder of the CD and launch setup.exe, you'll get better results if you install windows from the hard drive though. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.bale4/formatinstall.htm Lee

"Why a floppy? I can't use a CD? Can boot in dos or something and tell it to ran setup.exe or something" The floppy is what gets you into DOS mode. Since you're admittedly new to all this, I suggest you just go out & get a floppy drive. They're cheap enough & still useful, even in this day & age. You can use it to load drivers, test memory, run system diagnostics, etc...& of course, boot off a bootable floppy. Once you get the floppy drive, follow the instructions in response #1.