98 bootable diskette with usb drivers to access cdrom driver

[Guest Biggseye]

I have a tablet PC that runs 98 and the hard drive died. It has a bootable

diskette drive, but the usb cdrom is not bootable. I want to load Win 98 on

it. I need a bootable floppy disk that can access a usb disk drive.

 

anybody have something like this or willing to help me? I can not believe

that i am the only person that has ever had this issue.

[Guest MEB]

Re: 98 bootable diskette with usb drivers to access cdrom driver

 

 

"Biggseye" <Biggseye@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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| I have a tablet PC that runs 98 and the hard drive died. It has a bootable

| diskette drive, but the usb cdrom is not bootable. I want to load Win 98

on

| it. I need a bootable floppy disk that can access a usb disk drive.

|

| anybody have something like this or willing to help me? I can not believe

| that i am the only person that has ever had this issue.

 

Your not...

 

What CDROM manufacturer is the target drive?

 

What manufacturer for the tablet PC?

 

 

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[Guest Biggseye]

Re: 98 bootable diskette with usb drivers to access cdrom driver

 

fujitsu 3400/3500

 

teac 224e usb device

 

 

 

"MEB" wrote:

>

> "Biggseye" <Biggseye@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:F19330D2-6E30-4269-A2CC-BA2B3C89A2BF@microsoft.com...

> | I have a tablet PC that runs 98 and the hard drive died. It has a bootable

> | diskette drive, but the usb cdrom is not bootable. I want to load Win 98

> on

> | it. I need a bootable floppy disk that can access a usb disk drive.

> |

> | anybody have something like this or willing to help me? I can not believe

> | that i am the only person that has ever had this issue.

>

> Your not...

>

> What CDROM manufacturer is the target drive?

>

> What manufacturer for the tablet PC?

>

>

> --

> MEB

> http://peoplescounsel.org

> a Peoples' counsel

> _ _

> ~~

>

>

>

[Guest philo]

Re: 98 bootable diskette with usb drivers to access cdrom driver

 

 

"Biggseye" <Biggseye@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:F19330D2-6E30-4269-A2CC-BA2B3C89A2BF@microsoft.com...

> I have a tablet PC that runs 98 and the hard drive died. It has a bootable

> diskette drive, but the usb cdrom is not bootable. I want to load Win 98

on

> it. I need a bootable floppy disk that can access a usb disk drive.

>

> anybody have something like this or willing to help me? I can not believe

> that i am the only person that has ever had this issue.

 

 

 

http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm

[Guest John Dulak]

Re: 98 bootable diskette with usb drivers to access cdrom driver

 

Biggseye wrote:

> I have a tablet PC that runs 98 and the hard drive died. It has a bootable

> diskette drive, but the usb cdrom is not bootable. I want to load Win 98 on

> it. I need a bootable floppy disk that can access a usb disk drive.

>

> anybody have something like this or willing to help me? I can not believe

> that i am the only person that has ever had this issue.

 

Biggseye:

 

I've never made a USB/CD drive work from a doot floppy but I have made

a USB/Flash drive work from one. Since both are "Mass Storage Devices'

the same technique may work for you. OR - you could just copy the Win

89 CD to a USB/Flash drive and work from it.

 

 

You can get access to a USB flash drive from a DOS boot floppy if you

load the drivers for it.

 

In your DOS config.sys file you need these lines

 

device=usbaspi.sys /w /v

device=di1000dd.sys

 

The /w switch causes the driver to pause so you can connect a USB device.

The /v switch causes the driver to give verbose messages.

 

And, of course, you need the referenced files on the boot disk as well.

 

Archive files that contain the drivers:

 

usb_dos_drivers.zip

http://www.toolsthatwork.com/downloads/usb_dos_drivers.zip

 

hd352u_dos.zip (The page is in Japanese but the file nanes are in

English.)

http://www.driver.novac.co.jp/driver/hd352u/hd352u_drv.html

 

HTH & GL

 

John