putting a copy of your os install on the hard drive through the os

i know I've seen it somewere but cann't remember were I want to put a copy of 98SE onto the laptop with 98SE already on it basically putting a copy of the OS install disc on the hard drive through the OS on your hgard drive so if something happens you can reinstall right off your hard drive without needing the cd or a cd-drive as this is a stripped down laptop with external mounted excessories and no docking station the attach with a plug in cable simialar to a early scsi socket plug and only one at a time. any one ow how or point me in the direction of a place that tells you how thanks

Boot from a startup disk so MSCDEX loads, then from a dos prompt:
md c:\Win98
xcopy x:\win98\*.* c:\win98 (x:= cd rom drive letter)

Another way would be to copy the *.cab files from the CD to a folder named c:\win98 you've created in Windows.

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Originally Posted by shamus

Boot from a startup disk so MSCDEX loads, then from a dos prompt:
md c:\Win98
xcopy x:\win98\*.* c:\win98

Another way would be to copy the *.cab files from the CD to a folder named c:\win98 you've created in Windows.

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thanks I'll give that a try I think I've seen the first one before but couldn't remember were I saw it so thanks I think theirs a way to do to inside of windows itself while its running but cann't remember that either. someone needs to make a book with all the ways to install reinstall and do stuff in general for all the windows operating systems

to do it from inside windows, you need a cd drive attached..put your windows cd in the drive and copy the win98 folder from it to the root of the c drive.

then, anytime you need to access files..just point it to C:/win98

The industry OEM standard was to put the cab files in c:\windows\options\cabs


Once you have installed from a location on your hard drive, windows should never ask for the cd again as the install path in the registry will be pointing to the directory you stored the setup files in.