Quote Originally Posted by Robert M
I was thinking of booting with a Windows 98 floppy and she said she may be able to get one made at work.
You might want to try this:
  1. Go to http://www.bootdisk.com

  2. Click the "DOS/Windows9X/Me/NT/2K/XP Excellent Bootdisks" link

  3. Click the "Windows 98 SE OEM" link

  4. Save the file to "C:\" as "c:\boot98se.exe"

  5. While the file is downloading, go ahead and insert an empty diskette into drive A:

  6. Click Start | Run, type in c:\boot98se.exe and press [Enter] (or click [OK]).

  7. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the creation of a bootable Windows 98 SE System diskette


To start the Windows 98 Setup routine:
  1. When you boot from this diskette, select (using the arrow keys) the line that has "with CD support" in it and then watch the screen for the drive letter that will be assigned to the CD-ROM drive. (As an example, let's say it is assigned drive "E:").

  2. When you get to an A:\> prompt, insert your Windows 98 CD in the CD-ROM drive, type e:\setup and press [Enter]. (Replace that "e:" with whatever drive letter your system assigned to the CD-ROM drive).

  3. With any luck the Windows 98 setup routine will start and you should be able to follow along with the on-screen instructions to install Windows 98.
Note: Don't forget to remove the Windows 98 SE System diskette from A: before the computer reboots.
Quote Originally Posted by Robert M
But then I thought we may need a Windows 98 floppy diskette made with the FAT32EBD.EXE program. That's in case she has a FAT32 file system. Otherwise we may get a "invalid drive specification" message if we try with a regular Windows 98 boot floppy and she has a FAT 32 system partition.
Windows 98 SE will use FAT32 if you answered "Y"es to FDISK's "Do you wish to enable large disk support?" prompt. If you answered "N"o, it will use FAT16.

(Note that Windows 98 does not recognize the NTFS [XP] file system).