Subj : Re: And another thing
To   : Pistolgrip
From : Sniper
Date : Sun Apr 24 2005 01:17 pm

-=> Pistolgrip wrote to Angus Mcleod <=-

 Pi>   Re: And another thing
 Pi>   By: Angus Mcleod to Chronos on Fri Apr 22 2005 12:40 pm

 >   Re: And another thing
 >   By: Chronos to Angus Mcleod on Fri Apr 22 2005 11:30:00
 >
 >  >  > I suspect that the contents of an original disk were drag/dropped on a
 >  >  > disk but the new disk was not made bootable.  If I made a new copy of
 >  >  > copy, but specified that it was to be a bootable disk, do you suppose
 >  >  > would solve the problem?
 >  >
 >  > It might... But iirc, the Win 95/98 os's came with a floppy disk for the
 >
 > So all those Win98SE disks were not bootable?  hard to believe!  Mind you,
 > it was several years ago, but...

 Pi> Yes, the CD's we're not bootable and required a floppy.  You should be
 Pi> able to download the boot disk off the net easily. I do believe that
 Pi> some OEM and later version of 98SE and Me were bootable though.

Sorry, but Win98 CD's have been bootable for a long time.  Prior to the
SE version... I have a Win98 CD here at the moment, that was one of the
first out... its bootable.  You do need to have a computer that can
"Boot" from the CD drive though.  That was the case back in the day...
most computers didn't have that capability...




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