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January 12th, 2006, 07:22 PM
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Boot disks
Why can't I simply copy and paste the bootable files from a win98 bootable disk to a floppy and have it work?
What am I doing wrong here? I forgot why this won't work... 
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January 12th, 2006, 08:00 PM
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A Win98 bootdisk contains the DOS boot files and can be used on any FAT16/FAT32 drive whatever OS is installed. It boots into the DOS program before the OS is loaded.
You cannot simply copy the files of a Win98 startup disk. It has hidden and system files on it that make it bootable. You need to copy these over aswell or create a bootdisk. try http://www.bootdisk.com to get an already compiled image that you run to create the disk.
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