How to install Windows 98 from USB CD/DVD Drive - Not supported but we found a way!

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  • @damian9303
    @damian9303 Рік тому +35

    Thank you so much for the video, I was trying to downgrade an old XP laptop I had laying around to 98 without the official install media or any CDs even and PLOP, after doing weird glitches when it didn’t detect a USB inserted, would just boot strictly as Read-Only making it a struggle to boot off from. I love the work you’re doing for the retro gaming community, Phil! It inspired me to find and buy many newer laptops for cheap which have the drivers available to downgrade down to such old Windows versions while having more than enough of the hardware capability required to play these old games.

  • @MarcoGPUtuber
    @MarcoGPUtuber Рік тому +6

    Finally! I can now install Windows 98 onto my tempered glass RGB PC!
    Thanks Phil!

  • @RankAndFileGuy
    @RankAndFileGuy Рік тому +2

    I have owned a Lite-On usb CD/DVD drive for about 10 years now and it's one of the longest lasting purchases I made. I still use it to boot up old systems or play my old games from discs. It's a life saver.

  • @shaneeslick
    @shaneeslick Рік тому +1

    G'day Phil,
    I really like these "How to Install Windows..." videos,
    One of the biggest problems I have had with older Motherboards is getting the OS Installed if it is not a OEM CD/DVD in a 5.25 ODD, setting up the OS instalation file correctly on the media I want to use & finding where to Force the Install in BIOS, but since finding your channel your videos have been a great help relearning how to work with older components again & understanding the little tricks that simplify mating newer technology.

  • @andrasjuhasz3686
    @andrasjuhasz3686 Рік тому +1

    Oida! :) Great video again Phil! I always use a Windows 98 floppy USB image to boot up, run Fdisk for partitioning, format an SSD, and then copy the Windows 98 installation (Drivers, Games etc.) to the SSD from a modern PC. After that, I boot up again from the virtual floppy, run the setup, and proceed with the next-next-finish. :) And if I want to hear the classic sounds, I bring out the real floppy drive. It's so much fun to build a retro PC that I can't even remember if I installed Windows 98 more frequently back in the day because of the blue screen, or nowadays because of the fun factor:)

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +1

      Your process is pretty much identically to mine! Nothing beats the fast copying on a modern desktop onto SSD.

    • @andrasjuhasz3686
      @andrasjuhasz3686 Рік тому +1

      @@philscomputerlab Hi Phil, maybe an idea for a future friday video, to build a fully Voodoo machine, if it's possible to use a Voodoo3 via AGP, then a Voodoo2 AND a Voodoo1 via PCI on a single board. If W98 can handle it :) but maybe it's a dead idea.

  • @retropcscotland4645
    @retropcscotland4645 Рік тому +6

    Ahh man 98 the Nostalgia. I've been using the bootable dvd method for a long time myself except I used NERO to create it as bootable, hidden feature inside nero. I can confirm this method works very well even for dos6 to win95 to winME. Cheers Phil.

    • @Eysenbeiss
      @Eysenbeiss 8 місяців тому

      Using an Win98 floppy img to create the bootsector and then add the installation directory? ;-)

  • @50shadesofbeige88
    @50shadesofbeige88 Рік тому +14

    😆 Good work Phil! I usually just copy/past the entire CD into a folder on the root of the drive named Win98, then install right from the hard drive.

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +4

      Yes but you need to make the drive bootable first, which is easy if you have a floppy drive or internal CD-ROM.

    • @50shadesofbeige88
      @50shadesofbeige88 Рік тому +1

      @@philscomputerlab yeah I get what you're saying. :)

    • @thegreatboto
      @thegreatboto Рік тому

      Copying and installing from the i386 folder is faster as well vs running setup from the disc itself. Asking the CD drive for a bunch of sequential reads vs randoms.

  • @mesterak
    @mesterak Рік тому +4

    For Win98/ME, I use a USB CD drive to fdisk the drive, and then I connect the drive to my laptop via a USB to PATA/IDE/SATA adapter to format the drive and copy over the installer files. I reboot via USB CD again and use the boot from CD without CDROM support, switch over to the C drive, and run the installation setup. I’ve been doing it this way for most systems/boards except those that will not boot from USB at all. In those cases, I just restore a base disk image to the target drive, and this base image is just a copy of Win98 installation created (using Macrium Reflect) after the first reboot occurs. That way the driver detection and setup is freshly performed. This method works most of the time and does save a little time given it eliminates the fdisk, format, and initial setup/install.

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому

      Nice! Thanks for sharing!

    • @looks-suspicious
      @looks-suspicious Рік тому +1

      If you're gonna connect the drive to a modern machine anyway, why would you bother partitioning it with fdisk beforehand? At best, it's a waste of time. At worst, if it's an SSD, you'll get unaligned partitions.

    • @mesterak
      @mesterak Рік тому

      @@looks-suspiciousI realign the partition with mini partition wizard…not a big deal

  • @Oerg866
    @Oerg866 Рік тому +21

    Hi Phil,
    I've created a framework that allows you to install windows 98 from any disk source, including USB, optical drives and SD cards.
    It is many times faster than the original installer. It takes around two minutes on a pentium 3, and less than one minute on a modern machine.
    It can include patches and slipstream drivers as well.
    It can partition hard drives and set the partitions bootable, write MBR, etc.
    It works on 486 up to the latest machines, the reference ISO and USB images include the necessary patches for that.
    Let me know if you'd like to try it and maybe show it off.
    Best
    Eric

    • @cybercat1531
      @cybercat1531 Рік тому +1

      Windows 98 QuickInstaller FTW!

    • @DxDeksor
      @DxDeksor Рік тому +1

      I confirm it works great, it was very useful to install win98 on a small thin client computer :)

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +2

      Sounds great 👍

    • @Oerg866
      @Oerg866 Рік тому +2

      @@philscomputerlab Super! I sent you a DM on VOGONS with further information :)

    • @MillerTIH
      @MillerTIH Рік тому

      Hi, can let me try your wins98se installer?

  • @GYTCommnts
    @GYTCommnts Рік тому +3

    About the "wasting discs" part, you can aliviate this with rewritable optical media (I have a few that work great to this day). However, it's not always compatible with old optical drives, but it's not far from the similar problem of burning speeds and the materials that the blank CDs or DVDs are made. The difference is that with the try and error of the rewritable discs you are not wasting them (some of them support a very high count of sessions to rewrite them, but if they are too old, the materials may be at risk as an ordinary DVD or CD).

  • @PROSTO4Tabal
    @PROSTO4Tabal Рік тому +2

    Phil you looks like my brother :) identically :D you looks like 20 years ol, but you offer 30+ year knowledge. pleasure to watch new videos from you.
    I work on Windows 98 pc build currently this might come handy

  • @Manawyrm
    @Manawyrm Рік тому +12

    There's also a driver called USBASPI, which you can integrate into Windows 98's boot floppy image and then just create a "regular" CD-ROM with USB boot support. Have you tried this yet?

    • @LuiggiRetroPC
      @LuiggiRetroPC Рік тому +2

      Yes. Here is USBASPI.SYS working:
      ua-cam.com/video/SIopsPnfsuQ/v-deo.html

    • @treqdubu6065
      @treqdubu6065 Рік тому +1

      Please give the tutorial

  • @horstburshille9179
    @horstburshille9179 Рік тому

    Super dich mal wieder zu sehen, so als Person. Das macht die Videos 100mal persöhnlicher finde ich. Nach weiter so!

  • @morghaaniyasamy188
    @morghaaniyasamy188 Рік тому +1

    Hey Phil. Rlly appreciate your content. Tysm for all the tips and pc content.

  • @leandrotami
    @leandrotami Рік тому +1

    I have an old CD I made with Nero. It's a hybrid CD which boots emulating a floppy, which loads the cdrom driver, and through that you can access the windows installers.

  • @bulutcagdas1071
    @bulutcagdas1071 Рік тому +1

    I must have lost quite a bit of hair and 1 usb drive trying to install XP via a USB, great to see there is a way to do this.

  • @NightMotorcyclist
    @NightMotorcyclist Рік тому +1

    For nostalgia's sake, I utilize my HP CD-RW IDE drive as it still works and I do like the colorway of late 90s HP peripherals.

  • @jabezhane
    @jabezhane Рік тому +1

    Back in the day we used to struggle with this. Then we got in a load of Gateway PCs and they all came with boot floppys that fully enabled boot support for CD-Rom. They were worth their weight in gold at the time. We could then install so easy on any PC.

    • @jabezhane
      @jabezhane Рік тому

      The best one was installing Windows 95 onto laptops with no CD-rom...using parallel laplink cables. Copying all the install files to the HDD from another PC and then running install.exe...bingo! Needs must!

  • @megan_alnico
    @megan_alnico Рік тому +1

    In the past I've used virtual box to mount a physical hard drive. Then I boot a dos virtual machine and do all the formatting, copying and installing I could want. If I'm doing something particularly fiddly with the autoexec.bat or config.sys file I'll just sit there and make changes and boot the virtual machine over and over until it works right. Then I pull it out of my machine and plug it in the old machine. It works fantastic for DOS and pretty well for Windows 95/98.

  • @T3hBeowulf
    @T3hBeowulf Рік тому +1

    Those USB optical drives generally work for reading with only one USB cable connected. In my experience, you might run into trouble writing discs unless both are plugged in.
    Great video, thank you!

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +1

      Good point! Now for writing, at least plugged into USB 3 port, I had no issues with a single cable. But maybe other media need more power?

    • @T3hBeowulf
      @T3hBeowulf Рік тому

      @@philscomputerlabThis is true. Different media can have different power requirements in the drive. Also, when used as a data port, USB 3.0 can supply more power (900ma @5V) than USB 2 (500ma @5V) so it's entirely possible that a single USB 3.0 connection is enough.

  • @DarkDragonEWA
    @DarkDragonEWA Рік тому +2

    I've always just installed retro OS's from CD/Floppy like the old days. Luckily my years of tech hoarding have left me with plenty of both drives to last a lifetime. Annoys me how many cases these days don't have front drive bays anymore. Found a nice one with 12 bays that I used for building a new main rig though.

  • @kjrchannel1480
    @kjrchannel1480 Рік тому +2

    These days, like you I have a hoard of PC stuff. I will often use another PC to partition and format/s a drive. Then place install files on a extended partition. Yes that is cheating. I have frustration with those IDE to sata adapters when it comes to optical drives being seen, but not read from. Some of those adapters create alot of bios memory controller devices that it may not know what to do with, and cause conflcts. The new old stock IDE optical drives I have will at least be preserved because I don't burn every new Linux flavor like many people used to. I personally have never tried to install 98 from USB optical drives. I like the idea of having a hub with drive in one. I try to think what the inventors of the PC went through when there wasn't another PC to help things along.

  • @BandanazX
    @BandanazX Рік тому +2

    I don't understand why anyone who wanted a Win9x retro system wouldn't want a real optical drive. This is the heyday of the 'Multimedia PC'.

  • @philexile2954
    @philexile2954 Рік тому +1

    Thank you, Phil - I’ll be picking this up.

  • @madson-web
    @madson-web Рік тому +1

    This drive is really useful. I'd like to have that on my modern PC

  • @SneakiestDuke68
    @SneakiestDuke68 Рік тому +2

    I install win98 from cd with boot disk. Windows XP on some motherboards i install from USB by winsetup. Where USB boot not working then from dvd.

  • @pazitor
    @pazitor Рік тому

    Nice! By now, though, I have already made a collection of IDE flash drives ready to simply boot up, prepare the target install media, and then copy over my install routine and all Win98SE files. I will, however, try out this method next time around as per your very welcome recommendations.

  • @mesterak
    @mesterak Рік тому

    Of course, Happy Friday Phil!!!

  • @JohnSmith-xq1pz
    @JohnSmith-xq1pz Рік тому

    Internal optical drive: My time has come again
    PhilsComputerLab: Well actually...

  • @Henk717
    @Henk717 Рік тому +2

    My Ultimate MS-Dos 7.1 boot floppy does have USB CD-Rom drivers, but my VIA motherboard doesn't support them and I don't have a USB optical drive.
    I am curious if the one I implemented in my floppy would work on this as well, as its intended for cases like this.

  • @sebastian19745
    @sebastian19745 Рік тому +2

    I had (when Vista came out) few HP tablets (without optical drives, only internal HDD and USB ports) to downgrade to XP. While at that, I played with dos/win98 on one of these. Booting from USB CD was a feature in BIOS and all install was without issues. Later, I tried to install dos/win95 on few netbooks; they had sometimes problems with booting from a USB floppy but booted well from USB CDs. I remember using Nero (5 or 6) to make dos 6.22 bootable CD; it took a dos boot floppy image (1.44M) that emulated as boot device, it worked with 2.88M floppy images but not 1.2M. I made some image similar with win98 EBD, a compressed folder with dos basic utils that decompressed on a ramdrive and used those tools to partition/format/transfer the system on systems without need of a phisical floppy. On systems with IDE optical, I was able to access the CD and copy programs, games, install kits on the HDD or just run them from the CD.

  • @3dfxvoodoocards6
    @3dfxvoodoocards6 Рік тому +3

    Interesting subject, like!

  • @batforjustice
    @batforjustice Рік тому

    The early bird got the worm. I got one of these with your link. I was lucky enough to get it for $19 US. The discounts that made that possible are gone. It is a tactic of create demand and then raise the price. I used mine to play a cd as a test. It drew about 150ma on the micro usb plug side since I was using usb 2. I had to use both usb mini and micro usb3 connections to power it. I would favour something like this over a ide to sata adapter that was not optical drive compliant.
    A case in point I used one of those 2 cap green ones with a M/S jumper, similar to what Phil has. Bios saw it, but Linux ignored it when connected as slave on an optical sata drive. Using that same adapter model a ssd set to master was seen and accessible under Linux Mint on the same channel. I guess the next step is try one of those red Star tech versions that are supposed to be atapi compliant.

  • @3dhYT
    @3dhYT Рік тому

    _Translator:_
    Cool. It's always good to have several options for installation. Although USB flash drive is the best of them.

  • @alextirrellRI
    @alextirrellRI Рік тому

    I seem to remember a workaround to be able to get to the format command on the OEM disc - when you first boot the disc there are 3 choices -- one of them will just drop you down to a DOS prompt and that one will let you use 'format c:/' -- or maybe it was to let the installation fail and close and drop you to prompt? I just remember it's annoying as you need to reboot a couple times to get to it after using fdisk.

  • @vojtechadame5860
    @vojtechadame5860 Рік тому +2

    Great video, very useful.

  • @nicholsliwilson
    @nicholsliwilson Рік тому +1

    The last time I installed 98 on a machine without an optical drive I copied the Win98SE CD to a folder on the otherwise blank SD card serving as it’s hard drive. Interestingly the thin client I installed it on allowed me to boot from a USB floppy drive, so I cd’d to C:\Install & ran setup from there.

  • @Eliotime3000
    @Eliotime3000 Рік тому

    I have an external DVD Drive manufactured by LG, which is the most friendly for any old OS that I've ever used. It depends mostly from the motherbpard propieties and/or the manufacturer (both the drive and the motherboard), because the goal to install sucesfully Windows 98 SE is make sure that the IDE protocol would be avariable or MS-DOS will refuse to recognize the hosting optical drive for make effective the installation proceeding.

  • @toma.cnc1
    @toma.cnc1 Рік тому

    Old "Ghost" could do so much more when pushed .... boot, partition, format, copy Win98 folders to 2 partitions, all in under 3 minutes, reboot and you are greeted by the installer to enter the product key and continue installation, and this took ages!
    Wasted quite some time to get to that, but i had 3 computer shops so it payed off in spades. Been 20 years now?
    And, yes it does boot from CD and DVD and USB, it is just booting DOS with the drivers required

  • @jangelelcangry
    @jangelelcangry Рік тому +1

    Nice. My method is making a Freedos USB drive with the 98/mE files inside and run setum -nm -is.

  • @DeadMouseis
    @DeadMouseis 10 місяців тому

    also there are a few dos usb cd drivers like DosUSB :) Nice Vid

  • @mOddEdLiKeHeLL
    @mOddEdLiKeHeLL Рік тому +1

    Phil, you need monkey island and wing commander posters on your walls!!!

  • @MartinWolves
    @MartinWolves Рік тому +1

    Car boots in then UK are great for getting media and CD drives for very little money

  • @Trick-Framed
    @Trick-Framed Рік тому

    I have a USB IDE and a USB SATA drive bay that holds Optical drives. I also have a USB Sata that holds smaller, Laptop opticals which is neat as it's WAY smaller and lighter. A few years ago I bought my first case that made me choose between an full ATX board or an mATX and an optical drive so I went this route.

  • @Trick-Framed
    @Trick-Framed Рік тому

    How I install 98 ? I build an older PC with an optical drive. Or I make a Rufus copy if the bios supports USB boot. Last, I would install DOS first then install the drivers needed for USB and/or Optical.

  • @choirulabidin9890
    @choirulabidin9890 Рік тому

    Hi Phil, its been a long time since your last video about Thin client PC. Would you considered to try install windows XP or older version of windows on intel cherry trail platform?!

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +1

      Not supported...

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +1

      You're better off with a small form factor of from the ivy bridge or sandy bridge generation. They also made usff and micro PCs.

    • @choirulabidin9890
      @choirulabidin9890 Рік тому +1

      I have a broken one actually. It has windows 10 in it. And i think my chipset driver had support for win XP in their description . CMIIW

  • @RetroBytes265
    @RetroBytes265 Рік тому +1

    floppy format cd images have been around for sometime now. it doesn't seem to be a new thing as all versions of ms-dos are on floppy cd images from 3.33 to 7.1 theirs also windows 95 and 98 boot floppy cd images and theirs one for windows ME too. i tried all of them with my internal ide cd drive only downside i had was with the laser needing to constantly read and move back and forth it got really warm and the drive started to malfunction..

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +2

      Yes the original Windows 98 CD used Floppy image, but format command is missing on it. Hence I'm using a different one 🙂

    • @RetroBytes265
      @RetroBytes265 Рік тому +1

      @@philscomputerlab okay i understand now. i used the format command from ms-dos 6.22 and formatted that way then installed windows 98 from cd.

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +1

      Just be aware, the format from 6.22 can only do FAT16, not FAT32.

    • @RetroBytes265
      @RetroBytes265 Рік тому

      @@philscomputerlab thanks for letting me know I didn't know that I'm still learning to use all the older operating systems I'm 28 I was born before Windows 95 was available but I grew watching my dad use them. I'm thinking of starting a retro channel soon just waiting for some more items to arrive

  • @Z098
    @Z098 Рік тому

    For installing Win98se, I use a custom boot disk to partition and format C: drive and copy the Win98 folder off the CD(still have actual drives). My custom boot floppy does have dos USB drivers, so would be able to copy data off a thumb drive. All of my retro computers still have working Floppy drives and DVD drives. I should try my USB Blu-ray drive on the ones with USB ports and my custom boot disk as the boot image.

  • @welshtechie6832
    @welshtechie6832 Рік тому

    Every case I buy has optical drive spaces. I buy blu Rays and 4k Blu Rays due to the superior bit rate. I do have an external Blu Ray Writer back when it cost £32! How times have changed....

  • @MStannerz
    @MStannerz Рік тому

    Trying to install windows 98 on a VIA EPIA CN13000 is proving to be a nightmare. System is running a 20gb IDE hardrive that i have managed to use a boot usb to run fdisk and format C: /s and copy sys but once the 2nd usb running freedos 98 is install it just wont load.

  • @kathleenanderson1806
    @kathleenanderson1806 Рік тому

    I need a computer that will play a dvd I used to be able to play on windows 98. Is there some way I can get that to play on my new computer?

  • @myne00
    @myne00 Рік тому

    Ipxe and serva are options you might want to look into (network boot)

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому

      I did look into it but seemed a bit complicated and also requiring Linux and I prefer Windows.

  • @rodhester2166
    @rodhester2166 Рік тому

    great video.
    I just installed w98 on a machine that had a very limited bios, so much so that it would only recognize the usb mouse and keyboard that was used during install, (no ps2 port on mobo) but then after installed and boot up with the mouse and keyboard I could plug others in and once it recognized them I could boot using them also. Crazy .. and there was no continue on errors in bios so no mouse or keyboard it would stop and ask for a ps2 input device.. lol

  • @karlnigan
    @karlnigan Рік тому

    Hi Phil, I don't get the point...
    fdisk is on win98se cd, and format is available on this same cd on x:\win98\format
    It's been 8 years I'm using my HP usb dvd drive to install 98 on 2000s Era machines.

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +1

      How can you access \win98 though? It's on the CD and you cannot access the CD because the CD-ROM driver doesn't support USB optical drives. I think you recall the process with an IDE optical drive?

    • @karlnigan
      @karlnigan Рік тому

      @@philscomputerlab ok I see... I think I recall bios compatible with usb-cdrom boot.

  • @GewelReal
    @GewelReal Рік тому +3

    It's been years since I have even seen a CD/DVD drive

  • @iamstartower
    @iamstartower Рік тому +1

    i've been using plop boot manqgwr for years and more recently i've been startung install process in a VM until before first boot and then cloning the virtual drive to real HW.

  • @BladeRunner21577
    @BladeRunner21577 Рік тому

    It only needs 1 cable when using a USB 3.0 port because it delivers more power, but if using a USB 2.0, 1.1 or 1.0 port then you would need the second cable to provide power

  • @dh2032
    @dh2032 Рік тому

    question: where you getting a bit carried a way "ORICO USB CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Drive:, will it play Blu-ray, Amazon, not say much about Blu-ray play back, but Amazon not known for there Stella product research is it?

  • @semihgursu
    @semihgursu Рік тому

    Hey Phil i'm trying to build XP Overkill machine(After watch your i7 + gtx 960 video) but i can't install it. My motherboard is Z87I GAMING AC mini getting blue screen error when i try from CD. I think problem with AHCI drivers any advice to complete installation ?

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +1

      Try setting SATA controller to IDE mode or check my recent video about installing XP from USB! It includes the SATA drivers for AHCI.

  • @bradsmith8977
    @bradsmith8977 Рік тому

    Hey Phil how come you only use Dos 6.2 for 486 builds this a Dos 6.3 how come nobody uses that version?!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @octopusgaming4027
    @octopusgaming4027 Рік тому

    Hi. What's your opinion on using FreeDos instead MS Dos for retro machines? Are there any downsides if I decide to use that? I'm thinking of restoring my old Pentium II based PC

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +2

      I've done 2 videos testing FreeDOS vs MS-DOS and the compatibility is just not there. Why introduce another layer of issues to a hobby that's already tricky 😅

    • @octopusgaming4027
      @octopusgaming4027 Рік тому

      @@philscomputerlab Thanks for the answer. I think, I just go with good old Windows 98 SE and save me a lot of hassle :-)

    • @ryanpaaz
      @ryanpaaz Рік тому

      @@philscomputerlab How about DR-Dos? PTS-DOS? Novell-Dos. DR-Dos can handle Fat32, 8gb!!??? Just for fun because none of this is practical anyway. I'm still trying to figure out the finer points of multi-booting different DOS instances. Kinda tricky.

  • @regurgitador4016
    @regurgitador4016 Рік тому +1

    Phil's T-shirt is a dream (no homo)

  • @hate_mate7054
    @hate_mate7054 Рік тому +2

    Nice thank you

  • @eddieobscurant
    @eddieobscurant Рік тому

    How can I activate my Windows XP in 2023? Telephone line doesn't work.

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому

      You can't. It's not supported anymore and obsolete. You have to find "other" ways.

  • @eusebiosksipolitos2524
    @eusebiosksipolitos2524 Рік тому +1

    Go Phil...Qualtity content...What's a weather in AU?

  • @theoriginalarchlich
    @theoriginalarchlich Рік тому

    Shoot my windows11 dvd wouldn’t boot off my usb drive on a brand new amd am5 mobo with the latest uefi update. Had to attach a sata drive. (Win11 dvd was $40 cheaper than digital or usb)

  • @alexsmith8021
    @alexsmith8021 Рік тому

    Phil whats your take on PCem?

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +1

      No idea, never tried it, but one day, when I have more time, will check it out :D

  • @T3hBeowulf
    @T3hBeowulf Рік тому

    My favorite method if the BIOS supports USB boot is the IODD ST400.
    It's a USB external HDD with a screen that lets you swap out images and emulates a CD drive, let's you mount ISO images directly and simultaneously presents itself as an HDD giving you space to copy files without touching a disc.
    Otherwise, I just install from discs.

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому

      I tried buying that device, but seems unavailable the last time I checked on Amazon.

  • @Super123456789Kuba
    @Super123456789Kuba Рік тому

    Well, I do install 98 on two laptops (Not 100% literally tho.) - On the first one I use the CD/DVD Drive to copy the "Win98" folder on the disk (After when the Disk Partition and format thing were taken care of, that is.) And then I start the first installation phase there, but after that's finished I turn that laptop off, And I put that disk on the second laptop that's supposed to be on (Which either lacks CD/DVD Drive itself or doesn't even have the USB Boot support.) and I continue installing to the point it's installed.

  • @wojciechszymanowski
    @wojciechszymanowski Рік тому

    I think there is Also possible to install from USB when using Gotek floppy emulator.

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому

      Yes absolutely, but copying Windows 98 files to the drive will take a very long time that way!

  • @sergeyishutin2724
    @sergeyishutin2724 Рік тому

    Do I understand correctly? This is the video titled "How to install Windows 98 from USB CD/DVD Drive" but it doesn't cover how to do so? Instead of showing how to install windows 98 from optical drive you install floppy image from usb cd drive to be able to format hard drive and recommend to do some work around with windows 98 installation itself. I might didn't get something, otherwise the title is misleading.

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому

      Yes it is explained in the very beginning. USB ODD aren't supported, so this shows a workaround.

  • @fitlifeinsider
    @fitlifeinsider 9 місяців тому

    FDISK doesnt work what to do

  • @Synthematix
    @Synthematix Рік тому

    Ive been using usb cd drives for win98 for years lol, they follow the atapi and mscdex standards, i use a lite-on EZ-DUB usb drive

  • @pazitor
    @pazitor Рік тому

    BTW, Phil, I'd really love to see a video about how you clean and restore old HW. Thx.

  • @DeadMouseis
    @DeadMouseis 10 місяців тому

    all my pc's can use usb in dos as long as the usb drive in bootable with dos 7.1 which i do with hpusbformat,i then just copy win95/96 to the drive
    i have a freedos sbemu one and a dos 7.1 sbemu one both with win98 on them...

  • @ambirbtruckdriver
    @ambirbtruckdriver Рік тому

    One thing I’ve run into a LOT lately is dead drives in laptops. Nothing more infuriating than getting 90% through an install only to have it corrupt and crash due to a faulty drive. Might have to pick one of these up.

  • @enosunim
    @enosunim Рік тому

    You can also use live linux which boots into ram so you will be able to remove bootable cd and insert win98 disc instead. Good example is Gparted. Which also have disc format and manage utility in it where you can very quickly format disc and create partitions and make them bootable etc. So no need for dos boot cd. But gparted is not very user friendly you will need to use console to mount discs and copy files. But I guess for some one going retro on DOS this should not be a problem. I mean, DOS is just a command console, that is it.
    Also some idea how to install win98 without cd or usb. You can start installation on virtual machine, then copy image bit by bit to actual hdd and insert it to machine. Then continue installation on real machine. Or you can install DOS somehow in virtual machine, copy win98 files to hdd and then boot DOS on real machine and start win98 setup from there.
    Windows XP is the same, as I wrote under some other video, it can be installed from DOS, but you will need smartdrv file from win98 cd. After that you can convert fat32 to ntfs from windows XP command prompt.

  • @mytube9182
    @mytube9182 Рік тому

    There was no USB CD-ROM drive 25 years ago when Windows 98 was out. And Windows boot-installation from internal CD-ROM (booting via a floppy image on CD) was first introduced in the time of Windows ME. Later in late 2000 the USB CD-ROM just showed up and USB CD driver was then provided for DOS. From that time there is a possibility for Windows 98 installation from USB CD drive. That could be done by making a bootable CD from a bootable DOS diskette loading USB CD driver. So speaking "... found a way 25 years later" is just like saying "found a 15 years old today boy who' had been lost for 25 years" 😄

  • @sbrazenor2
    @sbrazenor2 Рік тому

    Might it help to boot with FreeDOS?

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому

      It might run into the same issue because FreeDOS AFAIK doesn't support USB optical drive.

  • @EternalxFrost
    @EternalxFrost Рік тому

    I always installed Win98 this way:
    Boot from the CD
    Fdisk then format
    MD Windows, CD Windows, MD Win98
    xcopy * . * C:\Windows\Win98
    Setup from there
    Windows will then detect a '' previous installation '' in C:\Windows, overwrite
    Then the installation will go on much faster since it's straight up from the hard drive, plus you'll have the whole CD content in \Windows\Win98.
    Also, many other techs that were more experienced then I was, back from the time I was a tech myself, told me that Win98 had a tendancy to be much more stable if it was installed this way (which I found to be true after a few months of testing both methods - this one and installing directly from the CD). Of course, it takes up more disk space, but it works like a charm. Much faster installation and much more stable. It's worth the lost disk space.

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому

      But how can you format? Format command isn't contained on the floppy boot image of the OEM Windows CD, it's in a folder on the CD, which you cannot access on a USB optical drive. Yes you're right, copying it onto the C: drive and then installing from there is also what I do and show in this video!

  • @msthalamus2172
    @msthalamus2172 Рік тому

    Not sure where the CD device name "banana," came from, but I ran into a problem with this. The way DOS works, no file, regardless of extension, can have the same name as a device. This is why you can't create a file named CON.* in DOS. Many versions of Windows from ca. 2000 fail to install if the CD drive has banana as its device name because they can't copy the banana.ani animated cursor file. It would be a good idea to give this a new name. FWIW, I use OB1KNOB, and haven't run into any trouble. :)

  • @nrg753
    @nrg753 Рік тому

    My method which I find reliable is: 1) Plug my HDD (via USB) or SD card in to my main PC, 2) Create a VM and mount the drive, 3) Partition and format it for Win98, make it bootable, 4) Shut down VM and copy the Win98 setup files from the ISO to the drive, 5) Install drive in retro pc and run setup

  • @FEETOFKEELEY
    @FEETOFKEELEY Рік тому

    Awesome stuff! Please make a detailed video on installing MS DOS(version 6.22 preferably) and also on how to install any program on MS DOS operating system. For example legacy developer tools like Borland C/C++ and TurboC/C++ (version 1.0 or 2.0) are my favourites and I want to install them on MS DOS after installing MS DOS on a real or virtual machine or I can install Turbo C/C++ inside DosBox. Nowadays I can find Turbo C++ version 3.0 on the Internet but all of them are already installed inside DosBox and have a set up file by which I can easily install it on Windows Vista or later. While this is absolutely great work done by other developers who want to make it easy for us to install Turbo C/ C++ on Windows, I also want to know how to install them on original MS DOS operating system. If you can make detailed video on installing MS DOS(version 6.22) and installing any program like Turbo C/C++ on MS DOS, that would be of great help. Thanks again for this awesome content!

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому +1

      In the old DOS software was distributed on floppy disks. You inserted the first disk and looked for a command such as SETUP or INSTALL, or checked the manual. Then the installation commenced. I believe there is a video about how to install MS-DOS on the channel!

  • @ZXSpectrumHotel
    @ZXSpectrumHotel Рік тому +2

    My imagination drew someone else all these years

  • @thecomputerman78
    @thecomputerman78 Рік тому +1

    I used to have a backpack CD-ROM it was lpt port

  • @cyneater6300
    @cyneater6300 Рік тому +1

    IDE / SATA hard disk bay copy the win 98 file to the drive.
    run the installed from the drive !
    of your ghost / HHD image for window98 just put it on the drive

  • @baghdadiabdellatif1581
    @baghdadiabdellatif1581 Рік тому

    Thank you

  • @woldemunster9244
    @woldemunster9244 Рік тому +1

    NOPE! I have Raon Everun UMPC and i installed W98 from a USB back in the day.
    It has AMD Geode2 that needs driver support to run at "full speed".
    Booting W98 took almost 5 minutes before the driver loaded. :DDD

    • @woldemunster9244
      @woldemunster9244 Рік тому +2

      Wait what? Intalling from a external drive? .......
      I thought this was about usb-install. My bad. :D

  • @Cyklonus
    @Cyklonus Рік тому +1

    👍👍

  • @summerxia9027
    @summerxia9027 Рік тому

    Well done :)

  • @rappidralph8863
    @rappidralph8863 Рік тому

    Nero 7 was best for creating bootable disks in image file also used it meant times and still do, also windows 98 se was best.

  • @oneideteixeira5102
    @oneideteixeira5102 Рік тому +1

    I prefer to use windows millenium. To be able to use pendrives natively. And to use nGlide to emulate glide using an nvidia fx6200 card. Eu prefiro usar o windows millenium . Para poder usar os pendrivers de forma nativa. E para usar o nGlide para emular a glide usando uma placa nvidia fx6200 .

  • @BladeRunner21577
    @BladeRunner21577 Рік тому

    For me part of the fun of it all is doing it the way we used to.
    Theyre not retro machines to me, just the way I used to do it so I have no problem with remembering how I did it before the stupid generation who dont like to know what going on took over.

  • @ravichandel8690
    @ravichandel8690 2 місяці тому

    no sound

  • @lineways5477
    @lineways5477 Рік тому

    Absolutely hate opticals 🖤 Love PXE tho 💙no stupid floppies, no cds, no dvds, no pendrives just a network card

    • @philscomputerlab
      @philscomputerlab  Рік тому

      You should do a tutorial!

    • @lineways5477
      @lineways5477 Рік тому

      @@philscomputerlab Haha keeping it as my little secret extending my pxe lab with various oses since like 10 years. As long as you have a motherboard which can boot from network cards you can boot in even old p1s from them even if the original boards integrated only supports bootp or whatnot.

  • @chrism869
    @chrism869 Рік тому

    i tought installing windows 98 is nayeon imposible from usb, period

  • @jahilbanda1540
    @jahilbanda1540 Рік тому

    Who needs Windows 98 nowadays?

  • @NYCMario1982
    @NYCMario1982 Рік тому +1

    nice shirt ;)

  • @airmicrobe
    @airmicrobe Рік тому +1

    Thumb drive!

    • @airmicrobe
      @airmicrobe Рік тому

      I use optical drive for windows 98 and I got many help from this channel. Windows 98 is rock solid for retro games around year 1999

  • @crusader2.0_loading89
    @crusader2.0_loading89 Рік тому

    I just install it from a flash drive