Hi all,<\/p>\n
I’m trying to install Windows 98 SE on an industry standard PC. Trouble is, the PC is quite a lot newer than W98. (Socket 775 machine…)<\/p>\n
a) Installation from install CD.
\n– the CD is bootable, boots nicely from the CD and asks me if I want to boot from hard disk or CD.
\nThen there is a nice Microsoft Windows 98 startup menu which asks me whether I want to start from CD ROM, or whether I want to start the computer with or without CD support.
\nThen, after selection of Start from CD Rom, a number of drivers seem to be started. At the end of the day however, there is a message saying:
\n“Device driver not found: OEMCD001”. No valid CDROM device drivers selected. The Windows98 Setup files were not found.<\/p>\n
The Driver used on this CD is from Oak Technoloy, called OTI-91X ATAPI CD-ROM device driver, Rev D91XV352. It tries to create the device with the name OEMCD001 but fails to do so. “No drives found, aborting installation”.<\/p>\n
Tried this with two different drives, one SATA and one IDE drive, same result. Also does not find any drives when both drives are installed at the same time.<\/p>\n
b) Installing from USB stick
\n– Formatted my stick with HP tool in FAT32 file system, with system files from Windows 98.
\nStick also boots nicely, and gives me a fancy C:\\ sign when ready.<\/p>\n
– Then I copied the W98 install disk on this stick, and booted.
\nFor a fraction of a second, I see the W98 install screen with the windows logo on it, and then the system falls back to a C:\\ command prompt.
\nAll it says is:
\nMicrosoft (R) Windows 98
\n(C) Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1998
\nC:\\><\/p>\n
This is all very nice but does not help installing.<\/p>\n
I then type “setup” and hit enter (this is a functional DOS environment in which I can browse around etc…)
\nResult: A message which tells me:
\n“Please wait while Setup initializes.”
\nI waited a while, had dinner, nothing happened.<\/p>\n
So now I place all my hopes on you guys, hope you can help me with one of these two versions, which both failed so far. All I want to achieve is working version of Windows 98 on my PC.<\/p>\n
If it is easier, I might also be interested in Windows 2000 since the software I’d like to run is probably running in 9x and I guess this should also work in 2000 then, but I simply don’t have that OS, so I try to get my old Windows 98 SE to run.<\/p>\n
Thanks in advance for all your helpful hints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":22},"question-category":[69],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2560","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-95"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}