you need:
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool ( from mediafire or rapidshare.zip )
Win ME Bootdisk files (from mediafire or rapidshare )
any usbstick
Create a Bootable USBstick
1. Run “HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool”
2. Select you usbstick as Device
3. Select FAT as File system
4. Volume name “BOOT98SE”
5. Select Quick Format (besure to copy any importal files off you usbstick!)
6. Select Create a DOS startup disk
7. unzip the bootme.zip and point “Using DOS system files located at” to the unzipped folder with files inside
8. Then start
9. Now it should be done, you wont see any files on the usbstick as they are in the boot sector
Flash the BIOS
1. Download you bios files from motherboard manufactour
2. Unzip it
3. Copy the files to your usbstick
4. Let the usbstick be in the port
5. Go into bios, then in boot priority
6. Select usb flash disk in removable or in hard drive as first boot device
7. Now save and reboot
8. Now you should get “Starting Windows Millenium Emergency Boot”
WARNING: flashing bios while ocing is not a good idea, and you should not reboot or anything while flashing, besure that the usbstick dont have any errors
9. Now you flash the bios using the manufactours guide 😉
10. When done flashing, reboot
11. and your done
Boot 98se Zipper
Boot Disk Essentials: wbootess.exe: The Boot Disk Essential diskette is a standard DOS boot floppy based on a Windows98 SE disk. It has a generic IDE cdrom driver and a variety of DOS utilities which aren't found on the standard boot disk - making this a great supplementary diskette to have around. Then at the a: prompt type format c: and enter. When it's done, and with the 98 cd in the cdrom, type X: setup and enter, where X: is the cdrom drive letter indicated when you booted up with the bootdisk. Now, you've got a weird 98 disk so setup may be in a directory on the cd and not in the root directory.
Http://boot98se.zip
Other Tools:
you can use other DOS tools to, you just need to copy them to usbstick and run them like memtest86+
Tip: you can put other files on the usbstick, just dont format it it and it will be as before 🙂
Boot 98se Zip File
NEWS NEWS NEWS - 24/04/2001
THE SELF EXTRACTING ZIP FILES ARE NOW READY
EMAIL ME AND I WILL SEND YOU THE FILES
YOU CAN THEN RUN THEM TO CREATE A BOOT DISK AND PUT THE SB16 EMULATION FILES ON YOUR HARD DRIVE
INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED
IMPORTANT UPDATE - 11/04/2001
YOU CAN STILL FOLLOW THE METHOD OUTLINED BELOW OR SEE MY POST LATER IN THIS THREAD
AS SOON AS I'VE DONE MY DOCUMENTATION I'LL POST AGAIN
Ok here is how I went about creating a bootdisk that allows me to play some DOS games that I had problems with in WinMe and/or SBLive Value! card. (I did a lot of searching for the information but the sites that I mention is where I got what I needed, I have no affiliation with them and there may well be other sites that have similar information.).
1. Went here http://www.myshed.net/bootdisks/boot98se.exe and downloaded the BOOT98SE.EXE and ran it to create a Win98 boot disk.
2. Went here http://atlas.hemmet.chalmers.se/livecenter/showpage.php?id=39 and downloaded SBLIVESB16.ZIP file containing SB16 emulation files.
3. Created a directory on C: called SBLive.
4. Created a directory on C: called BootDOS.
5. Unzipped SBLIVE2SB16.ZIP into C:SBLive.
6. Searched for HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE on C: drive and copied them to C:BootDOS
7. Copied COMMAND.COM from Win98 boot disk to C:BootDOS
8. Deleted DRVSPACE.BIN, EBD.CAB, EBD.SYS, EXTRACT.EXE, FDISK.EXE, FINDRAMD.EXE, RAMDRIVE.SYS, README.TXT and SETRAMD.BAT from the Win98 boot disk.
9. Edited CONFIG.SYS, took out most of the stuff that was in there. Added the first 2 lines and end up as follows:-
device=c:bootdoshimem.sys
device=c:bootdosemm386.exe noems
;[CD]
device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
device=btdosm.sys
device=flashpt.sys
device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
device=aspi2dos.sys
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspi4dos.sys
device=aspi8u2.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001
;[COMMON]
files=10
buffers=10
dos=high,umb
stacks=9,256
lastdrive=z
1. Load HIMEM.SYS
2. Load EMM386.EXE (for use by SB16 emulation)
3 -11. Load various CD rom drivers that should cater for the majority of CD rom types
12-16. Sets some other DOS variables.
10. Edit AUTOEXEC.BAT, again taking out most of the stuff, adding some stuff and ending up with:-
@<hidden> off
path=a:;c:;c:windows;c:windowscommand;c:sblive;d:;
set comspec=c:bootdoscommand.com
set temp=c:
set tmp=c:
lh mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /l:d
lh c:progra~1micros~1mousemouse.exe /q
set blaster=a220 i5 d1 h5 p330 t6
set ctsyn=c:sblive
sbeinit
c:
1. Sets echo off so every statement following is not repeated to the screen as it is executed.
2. Sets the directory path so that when a command is type in at the DOS prompt it will look through all the directories named to try and fin it.
3. Sets the location of the command program copied earlier (not actually required as it will default to a:command.com if you leave this out).
4-5. Set the location for temporary files.
6. Load high the CD executable file.
7. Load high the mouse executable (only required if you need a mouse in DOS, location may be different).
8. Sets the sound blaster variable.
9. Sets the location CTSYN file.
10. Runs the SBEINIT program to initialize the SB16 emulation.
11. Sets the prompt at C:
When the system is booted with this disk in, it says Starting Windows 98 and then boots up to a DOS prompt.
I can see some problems with this boot disk because some of the files are being run off the boot disk and others are being run off the hard disk eg HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE, MSCDEX.EXE, MOUSE.EXE and these may be later versions of files tha would normally run with Win98.
The Boot662.exe at http://www.myshed.net/bootdisks/boot622.exe creates a boot disk for DOS 6.22, and appears to have all the files on the disk, so maybe that is more consistent method, I haven't tried yet.
Basically it really is a matter of trial and error and numerous reboots.
Hope this has been of some help.
[Edited by Nix on 14-05-2001 at 08:49]
Boot 98se Zip Download
- The post to which you refer involves downloading a Windows 98 SE boot disk file, boot98se. This file, when executed writes to FDDs only. Fortunately, my XP SP2 PC was ordered with a floppy and after executing the file, boot98se, it created a BOOTABLE FLOPPY. It did NOT create a BOOTABLE Corsair USB drive.
- Double clicked on boot98se.exe It made a boot floppy. Next, removed that floppy and inserted another blank floppy. Double clicked on bootme.exe.
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