i have a copy of windows 98se and just got an old laptop has 95 on it and was gonna put the 98 on it?

Question

is there a way to put 98 onto floppies seeing as the laptop has no cdrom drive and only a floppy drive

Answer 1

no, even if you could do it it would take around 150 floppies.
u have to create the windows 98 files in a copy in a way that it would have to ask you to put a floppy after another one, it's really hard to do that.

Answer 2

95 came with a floppy edition.

Basically you CAN do it, but it's a very odd way of doing it and certainly not an easy matter.

There is easier ways to accomplish it. I'll explain.

- Does your computer have a network (ethernet) card?
If so, take these steps:
1) Connect your laptop to a network. Such as plugged into a hub to a desktop computer. (that has a CD-ROM)
2) If network connectivity becomes an issue, ask a new question regarding this -- as I don't want to expand here, since I don't even know if the laptop has a network card. But, ensure TCP/IP is installed on both.
3) Share out the C Drive of the laptop.
4) Create a new folder on the laptop C Drive called "WinCab" (or whatever).
5) From the desktop computer, insert the Windows 98 CD. Copy the contents of the Win98 folder to the shared folder of the WinCab directory.
6) Sit and watch the copy progress, humming a little tune.
7) When finished, from the laptop run the setup program from this directory.
8) Grats.

- If your machine does not have a network card
Well. You get a little bit tougher.
1) You can buy an External 3.5" hard drive enclosure
2) Remove the hard drive from the laptop.
3) Hook it up to the External USB 3.5" hard drive bay.
4) Connect it to a desktop machine (with a CDROM)
5) Copy over the contents of the Win98 directory to a new folder, such as WinCab, on the USB drive.
6) Remove the Laptop hard drive from the external bay.
7) Plug it back into the laptop, start up Win95, run the setup program from the folder you made (wincab)

- You can have someone do it for you, like a repair shop (That will use the External USB drive bay, or network, etc)
1) When you call, ask the following: "I have a laptop hard drive and a CD-ROM disk. How much will you charge to copy the CD-ROM disk to a directory on that hard drive?"
2) $30-$60 is "reasonable", note you can buy an external USB drive bay yourself for around $40-50


You could also do this process over floppy - yourself- but it is really a lot more hassle than the above and I'd consider that a last-ditch effort. If the above suggestions does not fit, or is not possible, I would suggest either editing your current question - or asking a new one - to that effect. It will involve a bit of headache, a lot of time, and explaining many steps where if you are not computer saavy, may be daunting.

Answer 3

It's possible but it would take around 30 floppies and isn't really practical.
If the laptop is so old it doesn't have a CD, it's too old to run 98 well anyway. 98 takes a lot more computer to run than 95 did.
You can get a good laptop with cd/dvd and plenty of power for Win98 for $150 on ebay.

Answer 4

no, it will not work out, but if you insist on trying id recommend copying it to the hard drive first
take out the hard drive from the laptop and using an adapter the costs about $5 plug the drive into another computer that does have a CD ROM, next make a folder on the drive called win98se, and copy the CD ROM to it, next put the drive back into the laptop and start it up, after windows 95 starts up navigate to the folder you created and run the file called setup.
that method will upgrade your windows 95 installation to windows 98se.
if you want to do a fresh install delete everything off the drive while its installed on the other computer before you copy the CD to it then when you put it back into the laptop you will have to use a startup floppy to boot to dos then go to the win98se directory and run setup.exe from there, that will give you A full fresh install of windows98se.

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Answer 5

You can not put windows 98 SE on a floppy disk. and anyways that laptop probably wont support 98 SE if it holds 95 I would either A sell it or B throw it away

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I don't think that is possible, and if it is that would be difficult. Maybe you could try and hook your laptop up to another computer with a CD ROM and transfer the data over to the laptop.

Answer 8

no way you need Cd rom and bootlabile Cd of Windows 98SE.start up floppy for Win98 too

Answer 9

Try a flash/pen drive if your old and new laptops got a USB drive...