tomahawk

Yeah you are exactly right i can't believe i didnt think of this i realised after i loaded it to usb what i was doing wrong. anyhow what i have done so far because at this point in time i dont plan to be using 98 to connect to the net i downloaded 98lite and got rid of internet explorer and all the other network stuff. i got 98 down to about i think 60mb or so.. its definatly made it boot quicker off the usb ill keep working on way to get the most speed i can out of it. if anyone wants a copy of 98lite porfessional let me know. its only about 350kb. Now i don't know much about adding registry code or doing much with registry never had to do alot with it. but can you tell me if this is right regarding ACPI. Went to the detect folder in regedit added new dword named it ACPIOption opened it added hexdecimal value of 1 is this correct. because when i did a power off and restart nothing at all happened detect new hardware still found nothing..

Hi guys I got the 701sd and i was bored so i thought i might try install windows 98 and see if i could get a game running. i wanted to install to sd so i could keep the origanel OS on the ssd. i have no external cd rom so i just copied all the win98se files from the cd to a USB stick. and made a startup disk on another USB stick. i put them in set it to boot from usb no problems get to dos prompt it detected the sd drive and of course USB stick. i thought i would try fdisk to partion the drive except it only brings up the USB stick that is C: and my sd is on D:. so i just thought its only 4g anyways so i went back to promt and formated D: after this i pulled out the usb startup and swaped to the win98 install usb. typed setup and away it went. i had an error on scan cause the file size had changed on C: cause of the swap fixed that error and it continued. so i let this run by itself cause it takes awhile it got through the whole install process no worries. booted up to windows 98 and seem to run ok. then i shutdown win98 checked that my other OS on the ssd was working no worries also. when i changed the boot menu to make the sd the primary hd. then restarted it just goes to a black screen with _ flashing nothing else. so i tried F8 on startup no luck. i then put my bootdisk back in and pressed F8 and allowed me to startup i selected step by step confirmation. got through all that and into windows98 in safe mode. still no idea what was going on so i thought i might retry it again and select normal startup. and now i cant get anywhere no win98 at all to startup. i viewed the files on the SD card from another OS and it had the normal windows folder program files an documents or somthing but there was no other files in the main part of the drive what so ever. i cant really remember win98 that well but isnt there supposed to be a boot.ini and a few sys files in the main part of your windows drive... anyhow just wondering if you could help me out and tell me maybe a better way to install this i would really like to keep with using the sd card though as i dont want usb hanging out the side in the way all the time. should i be setting up the partition differnt or using something else to format it.. i thought maybe it might be a probelem when i remove the usb stick it changes the drive letters but i dont see how that might cause a problem as when i remove the usb stick it would only revert the sd drive to C anyway.. any help would be great thanks ok i started again from scratch seems when i install 98 it will run once as soon as i restart it will not restart again. it just goes to a black screen with _ flashing i try F8 and do step by step but it just goes to command prompt. i went to d:windows then typed win and it comes back with no hymem.sys even though when i use dir i can see it is there. i loaded it up onto another computer and replaced the hymem file and it still come back with the same problem.. could it be that my sd card is just to slow... i thought this might be the case it when it was installing and starting for the first time it stayed on a blank screen for an extreamly long time