OT: backup win98se onto 2nd harddrive.

I've been poking around the ms site for hours trying to find the procedure to copy the win98se cdrom onto my harddrive so that I can point to the 2nd drive rather than fish out my cdrom each time I change an element of windows....I used to have this but long ago wiped it clean. Anywhere to look? dave henrie

Dave http://www.regedit.com/ (formerly Regedit.com) used to have a link to tell you what to edit in the registry and I think I can remember it pretty well... On OEM install (like dell and gateway, they were copied to this folder which you can create... C:\windows\options\cabs Copy the contents of the CD's "win98" dir or if space it tight, just the cabs (the files that have extension .cab) then open regedit Modify this existing setting: System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup] Value Name: SourcePath Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value) Value Data: C:\windows\options\cabs now it will not ask for CD it will just know where the cab files are... BE FRIGGIN CAREFULL, type exaclty! Here is the page I got the basic infor from... http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/42/ then I modifed it above to reflect the windows\cabs location of the files like we do when we setup laptops and stuff here at work. "rrevved" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 02:14:26 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > I've been poking around the ms site for hours trying to find theprocedure > >to copy the win98se cdrom onto my harddrive so that I can point to the2nd

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> >drive rather than fish out my cdrom each time I change an element of > >windows....I used to have this but long ago wiped it clean. > > Anywhere to look? > >dave henrie > > > > On the Win98SE CD, there should be a folder named CABS. > Just drag it to your hard drive. Inside that folder is SETUP.EXE > which you use to install Win98SE. > > >

On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 02:14:26 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> I've been poking around the ms site for hours trying to find the procedure >to copy the win98se cdrom onto my harddrive so that I can point to the 2nd >drive rather than fish out my cdrom each time I change an element of >windows....I used to have this but long ago wiped it clean. > Anywhere to look? >dave henrie >

On the Win98 CD there should be a dir with a bunch of .cab files: .. win98_55.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_56.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_57.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_58.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_59.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_60.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_61.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_62.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_63.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_64.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_65.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_66.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 win98_67.cab 10/30/01 22:25 1 802 240 setup.exe etc... Just copy *everything* that is in that dir in to another dir on your hard drive. They total about 120MB.

Simple, copy your Win98 folder from the Win98 CD on to C: or D:, and then when it asks for the CD, simply point it there. Better yet, install 98 from the Win98 folder after you have copied to to the HD, and when you install 98 next time, it will never ask for the CD again! James "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:6MdM8.136133$[email hidden]... > I've been poking around the ms site for hours trying to find theprocedure

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> to copy the win98se cdrom onto my harddrive so that I can point to the 2nd > drive rather than fish out my cdrom each time I change an element of > windows....I used to have this but long ago wiped it clean. > Anywhere to look? > dave henrie > >