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Windows 98 Boot CD download this ISO!

July 6th, 2007 by

I made an ISO of my Windows 98 Boot CD. I needed it yesterday, and I couldn’t find it online anywhere.

Download the Windows 98 Boot CD!
Note: This will not install Windows 98, only boot to a DOS prompt.

Update: This is NOT the installation CD! This download will not allow you to install Windows 98. This is a CD copy of the Windows 98 boot floppy, which will allow you to issue DOS commands to help you format/partition drives in preparation of an install. If you don’t know DOS commands and if you don’t have the Windows 98 installation files, this will not help you install Windows 98.

To burn the file to CD:

I used Alex Feinman’s ISO Recorder to create the image. You could probably use any tool to burn it, but Alex’s is pretty awesome. It adds right click burn to image power in Windows XP!

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77 Responses to “Windows 98 Boot CD download this ISO!”

  1. on 02 Dec 2009 at 6:20 am   abdou

    thank

  2. on 13 Dec 2009 at 12:20 pm   nome

    there is it

  3. on 16 Dec 2009 at 2:24 pm   Zhenya

    thank

  4. on 03 Jan 2010 at 11:16 am   Philip

    Thankyou

  5. on 18 Jan 2010 at 2:31 pm   Poomex

    Thx a lot man! I really needed that!

  6. on 20 Jan 2010 at 8:36 am   vishnu

    thank you

  7. on 18 Feb 2010 at 11:23 am   Kian M

    Thank you so much. Really needed this.

  8. on 15 Mar 2010 at 1:36 pm   Adam

    So how is this supposed to work cause it just takes me to a DOS command prompt.

  9. on 15 Mar 2010 at 1:41 pm   Anthony Curreri

    That’s perfect. This is just a boot disk, on a CD. The idea is that you get a dos prompt so you can run the utilities like fdisk to prepare your hard drive for Windows 98 Install. This CD image does not contain the Windows 98 system (is that what you were expecting?)

  10. on 20 Sep 2010 at 3:19 pm   Kyle

    So basically this download sounds like when you are buying the tires for a car you don’t yet have but you know you have the money for it (the car).

    Am I the only one confused at the logic or lack of on this download here?

  11. on 20 Sep 2010 at 3:20 pm   Kyle

    I am not trying to be mean or anything but am trying to understand the purpose of this download from reading Anthony’s comment about his dos command prompt problem and it caused me to realize that analogy.

  12. on 20 Sep 2010 at 3:31 pm   Anthony Curreri

    This is the recovery floppy that came with Windows 98. It boots to a command prompt and lets you run 12 year old recovery tools. This is useful to some. If you don’t know what this is, it’s probably not useful to you.

  13. on 07 Oct 2010 at 3:07 pm   The Ressen

    I was looking for it, I’m needing it right now. Thans thanks for the work!!! I’ll test it and solve my PC problem.

  14. on 15 Oct 2010 at 11:57 pm   emad

    thanks

  15. on 23 Oct 2010 at 8:00 am   tamzin

    this download is crap it messed up my comp and brought me to a DOS command prompt

  16. on 24 Oct 2010 at 10:26 pm   Anthony Curreri

    Remove the cd from your cdrom drive and reboot your computer. Your computer should boot properly.

  17. on 18 Dec 2010 at 2:23 am   Akshay

    thank you par ise format kaise karte hai

  18. on 06 Jan 2011 at 5:41 am   Anonymous

    thank you for this iso image

  19. on 13 Apr 2011 at 4:13 pm   Anonymous

    Thanks

  20. on 16 Apr 2011 at 4:49 pm   Anonymous

    Awesome thanks. Now I just need the cab files.

  21. on 29 Apr 2011 at 10:23 pm   why

    SO DUMB
    obviously if you had no idea why this is here.. then for the jebus sakes just keep your mouth shut or ask a question rather then hating on something you have no idea about

  22. on 17 May 2011 at 10:49 am   ghany

    thanks

  23. on 02 Jun 2011 at 7:54 am   Gracias

    Thanks you saved my day.

  24. on 06 Jun 2011 at 2:01 am   John McFadden

    Well Done and thanks. Just found this page after making my own EBD. Currently writing a plain and simple document to explain to to people WHAT an EBD is! and how to use it safely. :D

  25. on 10 Jun 2011 at 12:11 pm   wana guna

    Matur nuwun (Java, Indonesia)= thank you

  26. on 19 Jun 2011 at 10:52 am   Mobeen

    Thanks for this!

    @Kyle, if you don’t know why it’s useful you probably don’t need it. I found it useful …

  27. on 20 Jun 2011 at 5:18 pm   Holly

    Nice one, worked a treat. Partying like it’s 1999!

  28. on 24 Jun 2011 at 7:43 pm   deki

    sewun pisan coy ?

  29. on 12 Jul 2011 at 9:05 am   tee

    thanks a lot mate…
    couple of years on and ur still helping :)

  30. on 20 Jul 2011 at 4:41 pm   Ernst Otto

    thx a lot, i ts make my day good

  31. on 22 Jul 2011 at 12:26 pm   bk

    weach

  32. on 02 Aug 2011 at 4:51 am   sa

    thanks a million, you are a lifesaver :)

  33. on 20 Aug 2011 at 2:11 pm   Thank You

    Still useful to boot in PCs which have CD copying problems. I open and add Windows 2000 or XP files to the .iso, burn the CD, boot it, copy the files to hard disk (after usual partition and format), and run winnt.ext to install.
    (Leave lots of time for the install, but it works.)

  34. on 29 Aug 2011 at 1:23 am   jason

    thanks a lot men

  35. on 08 Sep 2011 at 3:27 pm   dodo

    You save my life!!!

  36. on 09 Sep 2011 at 9:08 pm   Isaac

    What code do you type in it says banana

  37. on 11 Sep 2011 at 5:48 pm   Anthony Curreri

    That depends, what are you trying to do?

  38. on 12 Sep 2011 at 6:04 am   Anonymous

    thanks

  39. on 12 Sep 2011 at 10:49 am   fplanzer

    Muchas Gracias!

  40. on 13 Sep 2011 at 2:59 pm   Gareth

    OMG!!!! Thank you so much. You saved my life with this upload dude. downloaded in 20 seconds and my pc is 100% now!

  41. on 14 Sep 2011 at 1:15 pm   Anonymous

    Danke schoen

  42. on 14 Sep 2011 at 1:16 pm   Anonymous

    dank u wel

  43. on 14 Sep 2011 at 1:18 pm   Anonymous

    you’ve rescued my system!

  44. on 15 Sep 2011 at 4:03 pm   Anonymous

    many probably assumed this would allow them to boot the Windows 98 disc. While it does allow you to use fdisk. It maps your CD rom drive to A and your floppy to B, even once partitioned with fdisk, no attempt to read the C drive ever worked as it was considered invalid and there was no way to read the windows 98 CD rom due tot he fact everything ran from the Cd rom drive. There was a reason we needed the Floppy And the disc back then, and now if you have one Cd rom drive this will not work. You still need a boot floppy to use the CD. Otherwise thanks for this, as it does allow you to do some things with no floppy that wasn’t easy any other way!

  45. on 15 Sep 2011 at 4:08 pm   Anthony Curreri

    It’s been a while since I’ve used this, but I as I recall A and B are RAM drives… the CD loads the floppy disc image into RAM. You should be able to remove the boot CD after the system is booted, and put in another CD and read that. YMMV though, I guess.

  46. on 18 Sep 2011 at 5:27 pm   goblam

    Thanks a lot this is the software im looking for!

  47. on 18 Sep 2011 at 10:09 pm   Aton Haber

    Thanks a lot!

    You saved my life :D

  48. on 30 Sep 2011 at 8:38 pm   Anonymous

    Hatur Nuhun (West Java – Indonesia)

  49. on 14 Oct 2011 at 3:54 am   dogan

    tankyou

  50. on 23 Oct 2011 at 4:05 am   Panzer

    Thank you sir.

  51. on 31 Oct 2011 at 8:50 pm   KOH

    THANK

  52. on 14 Nov 2011 at 12:52 am   kamal

    hi anthony
    i didnt find it helpful …may be cuz of lack of knowledge but i could not able to find win98se file there …how to find this file ???
    so that i can copy that file to C: and boot the same

    help would be appreciated

  53. on 14 Nov 2011 at 10:01 am   Anthony Curreri

    This CD does not have the Windows 98 setup files on it. It’s been so long since I’ve actually installed Windows 98 that I definitely can’t provide instructions on how to do this from memory. I’m going to update the post to make it more clear that this is not the Windows 98 installation CD.

  54. on 21 Nov 2011 at 2:11 pm   Some Guy

    This was a Huuuugggeee help. Thank you so much!

  55. on 02 Dec 2011 at 5:08 am   keith

    Thanks a million, has just helped me no end and has taken me back years!!!!!

  56. on 05 Dec 2011 at 1:23 pm   tonilynn

    Thanks so much…. just what I needed!

  57. on 05 Dec 2011 at 11:49 pm   Nick

    Shazam

  58. on 08 Dec 2011 at 11:25 am   FBF

    How stupid are some people? I needed this disc for an old PC i was playing with.

  59. on 12 Dec 2011 at 8:41 pm   enalec

    thanks, this is what I want

  60. on 20 Dec 2011 at 3:44 am   @kleavs

    thanks :)

  61. on 22 Jan 2012 at 11:55 pm   mijos

    thanks a lot !!!!

  62. on 24 Jan 2012 at 7:15 am   Thanks for the gitf

    Great tool: if you are restoring a Windows 98 operating system into a computer with no floppy disk, you NEED this CD. It lets you boot rhe computer, run a DOS version that sees the CD, and prepare the disk drive before you install the operating system (that is, make the partition and format the disk drive). Then, once the disk is formatted, you will be able to install Windows 98. If you use 98SE (second edition) then the operating system handles USB drives. This lets you use old Windows 95 programs (like games) on that computer. NOTE: Windows 98 stands for Windows 1998. That is, it can be too old for your needs and, in some cases, it could be too advanced for your Windows knowledge

  63. on 25 Jan 2012 at 6:31 pm   dossman

    Thanks Dude!! now I can clone drives on the ‘puter without a floppy…. :o )

  64. on 31 Jan 2012 at 2:20 pm   compaq® presario® 1244 cm2000 series

    what do i do if it says os not found when i try to boot w/ out disk but gives dos w/ disk?

  65. on 31 Jan 2012 at 3:22 pm   Anthony Curreri

    If you had a computer that was working, and now it’s suddenly saying “OS Not Found” you probably have a bad hard drive. A computer repairman might be able to fix it, or restore some of your data… and he might not.

    Since you have the Windows 98 Boot CD anyway, boot from it again. Try to type in: “C:” at the prompt, and press enter. The prompt should change to c:\> on the left. If you get an error message, then you can be pretty sure that the drive is corrupted. You can try the commands: “chkdsk c: /f” and “fdisk c: /mbr” These might fix the problem, might do nothing, or might make the problem worse. Try at your own risk.

  66. on 05 Mar 2012 at 6:09 am   Rhodan

    Thank you very much Anthony – i wanted to make a virtual windows 98 with wmware, so i can play my old games, like might and magic, again. And i was facing the problem that i had no diskdrive anymore.

  67. on 05 Mar 2012 at 1:29 pm   Alfred

    Thanks!

  68. on 07 Mar 2012 at 4:13 pm   Gmm_

    Fuck!!!
    This is diskette, but i need the install bootable CD. ?????? ????? ??????????? ?????? ????????

  69. on 07 Mar 2012 at 4:33 pm   Anthony Curreri

    You burn the .iso file you download to a …CD… then you can boot off of the CD. That sounds like a bootable CD to me. What is your trouble?

  70. on 09 Mar 2012 at 9:23 pm   SAS

    Trying to install win98 in VMWare and can get to boot from the iso as mounted ide drive. Just can’t access the CD that has win 98 on it… Can’t afford to lose the hair that I’m losing with this project.

  71. on 18 Mar 2012 at 4:00 am   Marcos

    Cheers!!

  72. on 29 Mar 2012 at 9:19 am   Arnold Baker

    Making a VMware Win98.

    Boot using this ISO. fdisk the c drive and then shut down. Choose another windows VM and connect this c drive as a second hard drive. then copy the Windows 98 setup CD into a folder on the drive.

    Shut down the other VM and open the Windows 98 VM. boot and enter the folder you copied the setup files to, type setup.

    Works great!

  73. on 02 Apr 2012 at 9:03 am   Jim

    Thanks, exactly what I needed!

  74. on 16 Apr 2012 at 6:31 am   toti

    Thanks!

  75. on 01 May 2012 at 9:59 am   Albert

    I love this CD
    Can’t believe all the stupid unnecessary comments I just read about this.
    I got a question:
    I have a hard drive that had Linux installed on it.
    I removed all the partitions and created one with 16MB so Y can boot from it.
    Restarted and then ran Format C:/q/s/v
    The machine won’t boot from C:
    It shows a GRUB and does nothing else.
    Any suggestions from higher level geeks?

  76. on 01 May 2012 at 11:03 am   Anthony Curreri

    My mother used to say “there’s no such thing as a stupid question.” So, I try to be nice! haha

    You just need to do an fdisk /mbr This should wipe out the master boot record (erasing GRUB). Then format the drive again to be sure.

  77. on 02 May 2012 at 2:37 am   Albert

    Anthony.
    You saved my day!!!

    Thank you.
    Old School DOS will never die.

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