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Win 98SE Iso - downloaded . . .now what?

FlashFlash
edited September 2014 in Software
Hi, a total newb here,

I downloaded my blast from the past Windows 98SE - ok, I have an old machine running the thing but I can't find the startup disks! (Don't ask!)

I burned the ISO to cd and now what?

What I want to do is load it onto another hard drive but when I stuck the cd into the cd drive and told startup to boot from the cd it just ignored it and went on to the xp on the hdd which doesn't work properly (which is the reason I want to write it over with Win 98se)

I am wondering - do I need to make a start up disk?
Wipe the hard drive first?

I am pretty sure I'm missing a step - I've never loaded a operating system before except maybe way back with Win 95 and I can't exactly remember what to do!

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks! :D

Comments

  • KirkKirk
    How did you burn the ISO? Did you burn the ISO file to a data CD, or did you burn it using an ISO Burner such as ImgBurn?
  • stitchstitch
    Yeah make sure you use something like ImgBurn or the "Windows Disc Image Burner" built into 7+ to burn .ISO images.

    If the CD-ROM doesn't boot or your BIOS doesn't support it grab a boot disk from http://bootdisk.com

    Should we start offering boot disks? We should all definitely seize this post for a site tutorial that's been an idea floating around a lot in IRC.
  • noonenoone
    stitch wrote:
    Yeah make sure you use something like ImgBurn or the "Windows Disc Image Burner" built into 7+ to burn .ISO images.

    If the CD-ROM doesn't boot or your BIOS doesn't support it grab a boot disk from http://bootdisk.com

    Should we start offering boot disks? We should all definitely seize this post for a site tutorial that's been an idea floating around a lot in IRC.
    I have a bootdisk I use linked inside that installing 95 tutorial, however I'm not a fan of ramdisks while installing OSes. If we can find some that don't have a ramdisk built in I think posting a few like that on here would be helpful.
  • stitchstitch
    We really need to try and get as close to the offifical ones as we can.

    I think bootdisk.com has a few non-RAMdisk variants. I don't recall the ramdisk variants being in toooo much use back in the 9x days.
  • noonenoone
    stitch wrote:
    We really need to try and get as close to the offifical ones as we can.

    I think bootdisk.com has a few non-RAMdisk variants. I don't recall the ramdisk variants being in toooo much use back in the 9x days.
    98 by default gave you a bootdisk that had a ramdisk on boot.
  • calvinbcalvinb
    NT 4 and anything up, including 98, used El Torito, so you didn't need a boot disk. NT 4 and 98 FE might have included one for older BIOSes though.
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