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| Thread ID: 62503 | 2005-10-10 01:58:00 | booting from external usb powered ide drive | drcspy (146) | Press F1 |
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| 394828 | 2005-10-10 01:58:00 | having a lot of troubles here........firstly i'd like to setup win98 on this drive as a boot drive so that it can be plugged in and booted from......using a foxconn - winfast k7s 741gxmg board, (yep please dont laugh or suggest another board it's my 'work' pc)......and I dont know how to get it to do that tried it by running setup from files on that drive, after booting with 98 startup disk but no go....it went so far then quit on me.......tried ghosting an image of a 98 install onto it then setting the bios to 'first boot ' from 'usb drive' .......still no go......it just says 'non system disk' etc......yes it's a primary disk and set active......any ideas ? | drcspy (146) | ||
| 394829 | 2005-10-10 02:00:00 | the drive i'm trying to use is a lappy drive in a dse usb caddy......... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 394830 | 2005-10-10 02:03:00 | Did you find USB 2 drivers? If the external USB hdd is USB2? Since 98 doesn't support USB2. Does the mobo support USB2? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 394831 | 2005-10-10 02:22:00 | I think you are pushing it uphill without a paddle . ;) Whether it's USB1 or USB2 doesn't make any difference . Obviously the motherboard's BIOS routines can access the USB device . The boot code on the USB disk gives an error message . What else can it do? W98 supports USB devices only if it has appropriate drivers loaded into it . It can load drivers only after it has started . USB removable disks are [not native to W98 . The boot process can't start W98 unless it has a disk W98 can use . W98 can't use a USB disk until it has started and loaded a driver for it . So I doubt if you can run W98 from a USB disk . Perhaps you can manage to start an OS which does support USB natively, which can then run W98 as a task? ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 394832 | 2005-10-10 02:27:00 | lol ok i've just ghosted an xp install onto the drive and it STILL wont boot ......grrrrrrrr .......thanks for your efforts...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 394833 | 2005-10-10 03:35:00 | ps: i'd be very happy if I can get it to boot from usb flash disk as an alterantive | drcspy (146) | ||
| 394834 | 2005-10-10 03:43:00 | Unless there's an option in the BIOS to boot from USB devices, you wont be able to boot from a USB flash drive either . If there's an option for booting from USB, you may have to make the flash drive bootable, with the software it came with . Or download the drivers from the maker's site . (you'll need a blank floppy so the drive's program can format it, and install the DOS files on it, if its like the Jetflash USB drive I use) . After I made this USB drive bootable, I removed the floppy altogether . I would check, whether the BIOS / system supports USB 2, and whether it supports booting from USB devices . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 394835 | 2005-10-10 03:47:00 | yes the bios supports boot from usb floppy/cd/hdd.........I have a samsung flash drive and have the drivers for 98 for it but dont know where to find any files which would allow me to make it bootable....... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 394836 | 2005-10-10 03:52:00 | yes the bios supports boot from usb floppy/cd/hdd . . . . . . . . . I have a samsung flash drive and have the drivers for 98 for it but dont know where to find any files which would allow me to make it bootable . . . . . . . I would check the samsung website, look for that USB drive, and see if a program is available, so you can format it . Unless you can create a system disk, when the USB drive is plugged in and you right mouse in Windows explorer / whatever and select format . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 394837 | 2005-10-10 05:28:00 | I also have an issue with an external usb 120GB HDD, with Win98se . It's not about booting, but trying to format the drive as fat32 . The Win98 PC has an USB2 card, with drivers . In Win98, drivers are installed for the external drive, & the drive is recognised in device manager . I want to use this drive on both WinXP & Win98 computers, I learn it needs fat32 for the Win98 PC . WinXP recognises the drive in disk management & will format as NTFS, but wont format drives >32GB as fat32 . Neither will the usual fdisk . exe do this, but from advice received, there is an updated fdisk that will format >32GB as fat32 . I have that update . But booting from that updated floppy, the external HDD is not recognised to format . Only the one C: drive is shown . So that is the problem . Does anyone have any advice to format this drive as fat32, or just give up using it with Win98, & only with WinXP as NTFS? I'm comming to that conclusion, as Graham says, there are hassles with Win98 USB . |
Bazza (407) | ||
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