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Answer» Quote from: patio on February 11, 2010, 06:00:30 PM It needs to be built from scratch...in a directory on your HDD and then burned to a bootable CD... No i'm not giving up so easy. Jus't don't know how to do. Built from scratch ? sorry i don't understand. can you be more specific?With Nero, it's a lot EASIER to create a BOOT floppy disk and then create the bootable CD from the floppy disk. The CD runs in FDD Emulation and boots as the "A"-drive. Quote from: dahlarbear on February 11, 2010, 06:37:58 PM When a USB flash drive is setup for use, it's partition and/or volume boot record structure is setup to emulate either a floppy disk drive or hard disk drive. It looks like your SYSTEM supports both formats. i tried do what you say, step by step ,and the usb pen stay's allways empty. why ?This might work, but I don't think your BIOS supports booting from a flash drive. HP Drive Key Boot Utility Version 7.41More information can be found on: http://www.bootdisk.com/ But it is easier using Nero.Quote from: dahlarbear on February 10, 2010, 11:58:17 PM Would you settle for a bootable USB flash drive (with Windows 98 system files) that boots directly to command prompt? Quote from: rstudio on February 12, 2010, 02:58:23 PM i tried do what you say, step by step ,and the usb pen stay's allways empty. 1. Try harder. Strictly speaking, there aren't "step-by-step" instructions, so I'm not sure what you did or where the process broke down for you. 2. Windows 98 System Files. From the link referenced in "a." above, download the "zip" file and extract the system files into a temporary directory. Be careful to pick the correct download link. It is NOT the big RED "START DOWNLOAD" link. It is the smaller "Primary Download Site" link to the left of the big RED one. Feel free to SCAN the "zip" file with your favorite anti-virus and/or anti-malware scanners. 3. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. From the link referenced in "b." above, download the installation file. Again, it is the smaller "Primary Download Site" link to the left of the big RED one. a. Execute the installation file. b. Start the program (Start -> All_Programs -> Hewlett-Packard_Company -> HP_USB_Disk_Storage_Format_Tool) c. Within the program window: (1) Select "Device" to format. (2) Select "File System" (FAT, FAT32, NTFS). (3) Enter a "Volume label". (4) Within "Format options" subsection. (a) Uncheck "Quick_Format". (b) Uncheck "Enable Compression", if not "grayed out". (c) Check "Create a DOS startup disk". (d) Select "using DOS system files located at:" (e) Browse to "temporary" directory you unzipped the Windows 98 system files to earlier (and select it). (f) Hit "Start" button. (g) I presume you wait for it to finish. I can't tell you exactly what it does because I don't have a flash drive I want to overwrite at the moment (and it's been several weeks since I made mine using these procedures). |
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