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Can't boot up with 98 boot disk

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Name: Cooney
Date: February 24, 2001 at 13:33:15 Pacific
Subject: Can't boot up with 98 boot disk

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I have a old 486 here and I'm trying to get it to boot up so I can fdisk and format the hard drive. I would like to boot up with win 98 boot disk so I can get the cd-rom support but it will not let me, if I use boot disk 95 it does boot up, so how can I get it to boot with 98? Please help

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Response Number 1

Name: Taz
Date: February 24, 2001 at 13:41:48 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

What do you mean it would not let you boot up?
what error messages do u get?

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Response Number 2

Name: bob b
Date: February 24, 2001 at 14:00:50 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

If it's CD-Rom support you need then you can get that from here,
wins95 with cd-rom support.

Start/settings/Control Panel/Add/Remove/Startup
Disk/Create Disk.
Or

ultimate bootdisk
www.startdisk.com/
www.fastlanecomputers.com/disk.html
MSWins98BootDisk with CD Suport
MSWins95 BootDisk with CD Suport

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Response Number 3

Name: col
Date: February 24, 2001 at 14:20:04 Pacific

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It may be the formatting of your floppy.
Format a floppy on your 486, then copy the 98 startup disk to the floppy, (maybe on another machine). I had the same trouble once, and this sorted it.
Good luck.

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Response Number 4

Name: fred6008
Date: February 24, 2001 at 20:24:35 Pacific

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You have both boot disks. Copy the OAKCDROM.SYS file from the 98 disk to the
Windows 95 boot disk. On the 95 disk enter in the config.sys DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001. Then in the Autoexec.bat enter MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001.
(This assumes the files are in the root of A: not in a directory on it.

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