INSTALL WIN98 ON 80 GB PARTITION

[dragonxx]

Hi!
just installed a 160 GB harddrive and partitioned it. wanted to install windows 98 Standard not SE but was not able to. So, i installed winXP on one of the partitions. Turned off computer inserted Win98 but it told me to start in MS-Dos mode & then install win98. How do i get into ms-dos mode to install?
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[leonjr1964]

You need a Windows 98 bootdisc (floppy) with the generic cd rom drivers on it. You can download the files from bootdisc.com (or I can email them to you).

[dragonxx]

Hi!
I checked out bootdisc win 98, but was not sure which one to download as far as the the generic cd rom drivers on board. I edited my profile and you can email me. Would really appreciate it.

[leonjr1964]

There's no email address in your profile, and your PM inbox is full, so I assume you have more help than you need. This is the PM I tried to send:

 The file you're looking for is: boot98se It is a self extracting .exe file. You put a floppy disc in the drive, then double click the extractor, and the files will be copied to the floppy disc. You can confirm the cd drivers are there by looking for these 2 files: BTCDROM and OAKCDROM. There should be anywhere from 20 to 24 total files (2 or 3 hidden) depending on which version you download. Both will do what you need them for.
 I can either email you the .exe file (about 900KB), if you want to write them to a floppy disc, or compress them into a .zip file if you want to extract them to a bootable flash drive.

[dragonxx]

[quote name=\'leonjr1964\' post=\'166122\' date=\'Aug 1 2006, 05:44 PM\']There's no email address in your profile, and your PM inbox is full, so I assume you have more help than you need. This is the PM I tried to send:

 The file you're looking for is: boot98se It is a self extracting .exe file. You put a floppy disc in the drive, then double click the extractor, and the files will be copied to the floppy disc. You can confirm the cd drivers are there by looking for these 2 files: BTCDROM and OAKCDROM. There should be anywhere from 20 to 24 total files (2 or 3 hidden) depending on which version you download. Both will do what you need them for.
 I can either email you the .exe file (about 900KB), if you want to write them to a floppy disc, or compress them into a .zip file if you want to extract them to a bootable flash drive.[/quote]

Hi leonjr1964!
Thanks again for the responce - i turned on my email - have not been in this forum very long Don't know my way around, in the very first search on bootdisc.com the other day came up with  NTFS floppy boot disk, made a floppy, but that was oriented more to xp and could not edit nothing with this Dos setup. Then i tried BTCDROM and OAKCDROM and downloaded a very small GENERIC file, which was no good. If you could send me that file will be very grateful.
Briefly this is what happened to me - a real good friend sent me a program - System commander 7 and told me to try it. This was the beginning of a nightmare. For i had 2 OS running partitioned by PM, the active and primary was on C: and i opened the crazy program on the D: and it took over xp and hid that drive. I tried to fix it on the win98 C: but could not. To make a long story short i formated the C: from another hd that i just bought. Partitioned via xp installed win xp and was trying to install win98 on the other partition.