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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5643)	1/28/1999 3:59:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

Clarence, go back and reread my long post about accessing your CD drive from the DOS environment. Essentially, you have to load the DOS CD driver in CONFIG.SYS, then connect it to MSCDEX (the Microsoft CD Extensions) which you execute in Autoexec.bat. That's why I posted the contents of these files. It IS essential you build a bootable diskette which provides access to a CD. But you do NOT want to change the config.sys and autoexec.bat that Win 98 uses in the root directory of the c drive (Win95/98 first boot DOS, see preceding post to ZP). Reason is, if the CD driver gets loaded by DOS while booting win98, win98 will take note of the driver and use it rather than loading it's own driver. You can lose function and performance that way. All that said, I now return to my original comments and reccomendations. It sounds like you've spent far more time tring to make a drive image than you would have done installing Win 98 and NT from scratch several times over. You have now had an object lesson in the value of employing full images parsimoniously <g>. At this stage of the game, it's not like you have a lot of swell data to destroy. Besides, you're not going to touch the primary NT install (right?). First build a DOS bootable floppy that you can access a CD from; that's essential. Note: The one you build from Win98 will say you're booting Win98, but now we know you're actually booting the DOS within Win98, right? (Same DOS you boot as part of the 98 boot up, as discussed in my post to ZP.) You can test this by (1) boot from floppy and (2) read cd <g>. You are now prepared to install Win98 from scratch if necessary. BTW, did you get an install floppy with Win 98? If so, keep good track of it; make a backup. But the cd-enabled DOS bootable floppy can substitute for it because you can use it to run win 98 setup from the cd. Then, as I recall, the steps are (1) convert FAT32 partition to FAT16 (require PM, I guess), (2) boot Win98, and (3) run NT install from Win 98. NT will take care of the dual-boot business. Then, since that was so easy, MAKE AN EMERGENCY REPAIR DISK of the backup NT, and install service pack 4. Voila! It is finished! The only real concern I have is the behavior of the bios when you have specified boot from IDE slave (that is, to boot Win98). Does this setting stick through subsequent reboots till you go back into the bios and change it? If so, you're cool. If not, you might want to rejumper the disks to put the Win98 disk as the IDE master and DISCONNECT your current NT disk. Can't get safer than that.