[Installing Win98 SE from USB Hard Drive]

Sorry for the late reply

I figured out my own problem with a different method
There was a CD lying around with Windows 98 SE on it, though the CD is very old so I can't really install from it.
I copied Win95 setup files from an other CD to the Hard Disk (with Lubuntu), and then restarted my PC with the really old CD on it
Start Computer without CD-ROM support, and navigate to C: drive and type setup

Not how I wanted to install Win98, but I guess this will do, thank you everyone for your help!

[Installing Win98 SE from USB Hard Drive]

There is a trick to make a removable flash drive appear as a fixed drive but that is irreversible AFAIK. Your BIOS probably doesn't accept booting from removable drives.

What exactly are the boot options in regard to selectable devices (USB Floppy/USB HDD/USB CD-ROM/USB ZIP/etc)?

 

There is a DOS driver that can detect USB storage devices, you may have to load it in autoexec/config.

I have to press F8 (during POST) in order to boot from Pendrive or any USB devices

Never tried that before, I'll try that and report back any news

[Installing Win98 SE from USB Hard Drive]

What is your harddrive model and size?

Does FDISK detects the harddrive?

FDISK detects the Laptop's hard drive perfectly

It's just that my laptop refuses booting on my Pendrive, but works without any problems on my Flash Hard Drive

[Installing Win98 SE from USB Hard Drive]

I'm no expert but once something similar happened to me. apology maybe you already did. win98 copy files to the hard drive and install it from there. 

 

The question is how Bootable DOS does not recognize my Hard Disk, even after when I reformatted it into FAT32

[Installing Win98 SE from USB Hard Drive]

Hi everyone

Since October, I have been struggling to install Windows 98 SE on my old laptop, but whenever I tried It I always got BSOD, setup errors, or simply "Setup cannot find file", or the setup never continues.

Target laptop is a ECS Elitegroup A530 (A530_TM5600)

It has available Win95/98/ME drivers for It
It can boot from Pendrive or USB Hard Drive, but it doesn't have Floppy, CD/DVD is out of the question because I can't burn the Win98 iso to CD

I have tried to make the Pendrive DOS bootable, but for some reason It couldn't detect my Hard Drive (Maybe I did it the wrong way?)
Copying all W98 files, and trying to install Win98 from there, and it just refuses to install.

Now that method didn't work, so I thought I will just install DOS 6.22 and try to install Win98 from there, same error, same problems (couldn't find files blablabla)

 

Any help would be much appreciated!