Q: I would like to have Win 98 installed on an external HD and boot from it when I need to use a computer. I have a MB that supports booting from USB, but so far Im unable to boot. Is it possible? Is there a guide I can follow?
Best Answer: install the second drive (w98) on the secondary ide channel of your pc. there are small jumpers on the hd, by the connector. there should be a label on the hd explaining how to jumper the drives so one is a master and second a slave. move the jumpers on each drive to designate the xp hd as the master and the 98 hd as the slave. also, check the pc's bios setting. power up your pc. hit eiher f2 or f12, depends on your bios system. it'll have a hdd section where you can configure which hd is the master and which is the slave.
once it's installed correctly, you wont be able to boot from the slave, or even run the 98 OS. you will be able to get files off of it though. once you get the files off, reformat it with ntfs so you can have additional hd space.
Re:USB support was pretty flaky in Windwoes until Win98SE and Win2k and that would probably only be usable on one system to avoid driver changes, etc.. I think it may be easier to make a Win98SE bootable CD (like a Live Linux CD). There are some step-by-step instructions for building one around the web. There should be a post here with links to the instructions, but it would be in archived messages and I'm not sure which section I posted it to but I think it was the OS section. But here is a link though I'm not sure if this is the article I linked to before: http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/11/206/
.bh.
Re:USB support was pretty flaky in Windwoes until Win98SE and Win2k and that would probably only be usable on one system to avoid driver changes, etc.. I think it may be easier to make a Win98SE bootable CD (like a Live Linux CD). There are some step-by-step instructions for building one around the web. There should be a post here with links to the instructions, but it would be in archived messages and I'm not sure which section I posted it to but I think it was the OS section.
.bh.
Re:Most modern mobos WILL boot from a USB drive. No need to do anything fancy, just enable legacy USB support in BIOS. Boot with a Win98 CD with the USB drive connected (and any internal drives disabled or disconnected) and you should be able to install Win98 to the USB drive.
Re:My first thought was no,
By as I sat here at work thinking about it.
step 1: Install windows 98 to a regular hd, on its own partition
step 2: Verify windows 98 has the correct drivers for reading a usb mass storage device
step 3: Ghost it to the External HDD
Thank not me but my friend Alain for the advice
we bouced it back and forth and it was his brain child.Re:I'm wonding the same thing, I have win98 installed on a partition on an external hard drive as well, but it won't boot, it always crashes before getting in to windows.
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