Bonge Boo! wrote:
> On 4/7/05 21:35, in article slrndcj796.20s.spam@neutron.nukesoft.co.uk,
> "Marcus Houlden" <spam@nukesoft.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> I'm going senile. I want to be able to boot my existing Windows 98
>>> installation from a floppy disk. How the hell do I do this?
>>>
>>> I've tried various boot disks, startup disks and none of them work.
>>>
>>> I can get a DOS prompt, then windows/win <return> starts booting
>>> Windows. Then it hangs.
>>>
>>> Clean installation. I'm sure this is easy, but can't remember how?
>>
>> I'm guessing you're using a boot disk made either with FORMAT A: /S, SYS
>> A: or "create bootable disk". Using any of these methods leaves off
>> various files that Win9x need to start. Specifically these files are:
>>
>> * HIMEM.SYS
>> * IFSHLP.SYS
>> * DBLBUFF.SYS
>> * SETVER.EXE
>> * EMM386.EXE
>>
>> HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE might already be loaded in the CONFIG.SYS you do
>> have. Without IFSHLP.SYS especially Windows will not load. Copy all these
>> files to the boot disk and add:
>>
>> DOS=AUTO
>>
>> to your CONFIG.SYS. You can either have this as a separate line or
>> combined with other DOS commands, such as
>>
>> DOS=HIGH, AUTO
>>
>> or
>>
>> DOS=HIGH, UMB, AUTO
>>
>> This should get it up and running. For more details on
>> the DOS command, see http://www.nukesoft.co.uk/msdos/command.php?name=DOS
>
> Many thanks. Will give it a crack tomorrow.
I still don't think that Windows is supposed to hang. I use Windows 98 on an
antiquated laptop and a startup disk overrides the setting on the
hard-drive to boot into Windows successfully. I am assuming that Windows
began to hang so you used the safety floppy disk which simply did not offer
a solution. Is that correct? If so, have you tried safety mode yet?
Roy
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