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Name: Heather Date: August 11, 2001 at 18:25:49 Pacific
Comment:
Can someone tell me how to make a back up copy of Win98 on my hard drive?I'm told if you have to re install windows its best to have a backup on the hd so you don't have to pull out the cd when it ask for certain files.I'm not familiar with dos but I guess that's where I go to do this??????? Any help? Thank you
Name: fred Date: August 11, 2001 at 18:35:27 Pacific
Reply:
Ok, it's not a backup but a copy of the win98 install files. Copy the Win98 folder from the CD to the hard drive. That's it.
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Response Number 2
Name: fred Date: August 11, 2001 at 18:40:50 Pacific
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If you're interested, there is a modification to the Registry that can be made to direct Windows to the new location instead of the CD.
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Response Number 3
Name: Heather Date: August 11, 2001 at 18:41:09 Pacific
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Thank you Fred for your help.I thought that's all you do too, but someone told me that's wrong and I need to do something at dos so when it ask for a file during re installing of Windows it knows right where to find it and won't ask for the disc.
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Response Number 4
Name: fred Date: August 11, 2001 at 19:00:08 Pacific
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Yes, that's the Registry modification. If you feel up to it the location is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\SETUP\SOURCEPATH Change the 'sourcepath' in the right panel from the CD location (possibly d:\win98) to the location where you copied it to on the hard drive (possibly c:\win98). Modifying the registry is somewhat dangerous so you should be sure that you know what you're doing before you start.
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Response Number 5
Name: fred Date: August 11, 2001 at 19:02:08 Pacific
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It's not really necessary to make that change. Instead of doing that you could just redirect the input (Browse) when it asks for the CD.
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Response Number 6
Name: Heather Date: August 11, 2001 at 19:09:59 Pacific
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Thank you again Fred.No I don't know anything about the registry and was told not to mess with it.Long as I know I can copy and paste the files to the hard drive in its own folder such an win98 I guess I wil be okay. Someone told me I needed to go to the dos prompt and type MD something ,,,but maybe not.Thank you again so much for your input.
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Response Number 7
Name: fred Date: August 11, 2001 at 19:16:26 Pacific
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You're welcome Heather. Changing the registry really isn't that big a deal. If you change your mind check back and someone can give you step by step instructions.
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Response Number 8
Name: sathya Date: August 11, 2001 at 21:39:37 Pacific
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Fred is right.changing the registry is no big deal.I have changed a lot of things in my registry to get better performance.All you have to do is navigate to start/run and type regedit.exe and do the steps given by Fred.
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Response Number 9
Name: tinkerbong Date: August 12, 2001 at 01:41:59 Pacific
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if you run an install from the win98 folder copied to your hard disk, then future hunting by windows for those files will be directed to that folder , the reg. change is done by install. Works for win95 as well if you copy win95 folder from CD to harddrive.
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