Installing Win98 without CDRom

[Guest]

hi, i have the winsrc of win98 on my harddisk. My harddisk is running on
winxp. i have a old harddisk which i wish to install win98 becoz i would like
to play all of the old games that i use to enjoy. Is there any way to do
it???? I will be back in 8hrs time..... thanks.

 

[GateKeeper]

See "How do I install Windows98/ME after I've installed XP," at
<http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm>. This might help.

 

[tonyk]

hi, i have the winsrc of win98 on my harddisk. My harddisk is running
on winxp. i have a old harddisk which i wish to install win98 becoz i
would like to play all of the old games that i use to enjoy. Is there
any way to do it???? I will be back in 8hrs time..... thanks.

I have xp pro, on fat32, and I can play any of my games from windoze 3.1,
and most of my dos games too. Many of the old programs require .dll files
that aren't in xp, so you might have to find things like vbrun200.
I think the key is fat32.

tonyk

 

[GateKeeper]

I realize that my earlier post was a link to a set of instructions that
assumed you had the Win98 install files on a CD-ROM. If you don't, then
you may have consider some kind of alternative strategy. Maybe you can
install the old HD as a slave on the new machine, and install Win98 to
it from the install files on the WinXP disk. I'm not sure how that
would work, but it may be your only alternative.