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600E Recovery without CD Drive
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:31 pm
by Paul Pennington
I'm trying to load the IBM Windows 98 Recovery CD for the 600E on mine, but I don't have a CD drive! I partitioned and formatted the drive on another computer, and copied all the files from the CD into a small partition.
Surprisingly, that all worked! I can boot the 600E with a Windows 98 startup disk: the drives and files on the hard disk show up just fine.
My problem is I don't know how to start the recovery process. Which file do I run to get the thing started?
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:10 am
by andyP
You don't need to copy all files from the cd onto the hard drive, you actually only need the contents of the win98 folder.
What I always did was copy the folder win98 onto the hdd and put it back in the TP. Using a boot disc I made the hdd bootable. Boot the hard drive and go into the win98 folder and type setup - it installs.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:57 am
by pkiff
andyP wrote:you actually only need the contents of the win98 folder.
He says he's got a Recovery CD, not a standard Win98 CD. Is the folder structure the same for the Recovery CDs?
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:50 am
by andyP
pkiff wrote:andyP wrote:you actually only need the contents of the win98 folder.
He says he's got a Recovery CD, not a standard Win98 CD. Is the folder structure the same for the Recovery CDs?
Sorry I overlooked the "recovery". The structure is totally different and it will only work from a cd drive as one of the tasks it runs is format.com, that would definitely not be of help.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:50 am
by Paul Pennington
Some of the later recovery CD's allow some choices such as "use existing partitions". I've never run a 600 recovery. Oh well. I'll just have to wait for my CD drive to get here. I bought a junker 600E for parts on eBay. Thanks for the replies.