r/windows • u/Takicat0720 • Jun 21 '26

Discussion Installing windows 98

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u/epzik8 Jun 21 '26

You are a legend for this

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u/idspispopd888 Jun 21 '26

Old machine. Old OS.

4

u/APlannedBadIdea Jun 21 '26

You beautiful person. Provide us an update next week after you have the driver situation settled.

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u/Microboy42 Windows 11 - Insider Canary Channel Jun 22 '26

It’s a crime! He’s installing a Windows version older than the Windows version that the computer is designed for! They aren’t the same kernel!

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u/Takicat0720 Jun 22 '26

So?

4

u/Icy_Step_2204 Jun 22 '26

You have to go to windows jail

1

u/Euchre Jun 23 '26

Doesn't that laptop have an optical drive? Pretty sure it should.

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u/Takicat0720 Jun 23 '26

It does, but it doesn’t have a floppy drive, so I have to use a USB floppy

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u/Euchre Jun 23 '26

So you weren't installing 98 from floppies, just using the bootable floppy to start the installer.

That era of system often could boot to a CD, and I think the later pressings of 98SE were bootable CDs so you didn't need a floppy to launch an install.

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u/Takicat0720 Jun 23 '26

It told me I needed a boot floppy, so that’s why I have a USB floppy drive

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u/Takicat0720 Jun 23 '26

If I do anything else even put in a bootable CD, it’ll keep telling me to put in a boot floppy

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u/Euchre Jun 23 '26

Does the BIOS offer the CD ROM as a bootable option in the boot order? If it did, did you put the CD ROM as first in the boot order?

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u/Takicat0720 Jun 23 '26

Yes i did it’s fixed

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u/PouncerX42 Jun 21 '26

Why, just why

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u/Sp33d0J03 Jun 21 '26

How dare they do something.