over the past couple of days, I've been working on an older laptop that's been having some
unpleasant troubles with Windows 98.. while reading through some options that I have to fix it, I found myself in need of a Windows 98 boot disk. the usual means of
creating one of these beasts is to use Windows 98 itself to create it. unfortunately, since this machine wouldn't boot, and I didn't have a Windows 98 machine handy (and haven't for several years), I needed to find some other means of creating a boot disk.
enter Google. with a little bit of searching, I can across a couple of sites that offer both standard and custom Windows bootdisk solutions.
- Bootdisk.com
- this site hosts several types of bootdisks, as well as links to various updates and drivers. it's useful, but difficult to navigate. a direct link to their bootdisk downloads is helpful to have.
- FreePCTech.com
- this site also hosts boot disks for MS operating systems, from DOS 6 through XP SP1. it also has several special purpose boot disks.
one should note that while these sites both say that their boot disks are virus free, one should always take care when using disks from an unverified source. it's better to be safe than sorry, yes?