We have: corei5 laptop, 4gb RAM, two HDDs of 500gb 1st HDD: | 100mb- reserved by the system || 36gb- NTFS for Windows 7 || 390gb- NTFS (DATA) || 40gb - other Linux partitions | 2nd HDD: | 465gb / home |

the task to install Windows 98 without damaging the rest.

Because 98 is not friendly with NTFS I think 2gig to tear out from (data). Then there may be a problem with the incompatibility of the equipment (by "may arise" I mean that I won’t get anything up at all, because at least I have HDDs connected via SATA, and they have rather big sizes, besides I don’t know how will it work with modern processors, and how does 98 relate to a lot of ram?)

If we assume I can somehow install 98, what do I need to do in order to preserve the boot record, and then restore it and add 98 there as well.

I need it to work tasm. As an option, I think to install a clean DOS in conjunction with the FAR manager. DOS seems to be still alive, and used somewhere.

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    Why torture your brain and computer, install VirtualBox and install Windows there or whatever you want

    • if it were so simple: (via VB no one can guarantee one hundred percent correct operation of tasm - shaman888
    • I think you're in vain worried. The virtual environment is completely isolated - Anton Shevtsov
    • I will try to install it on VB, but I still don’t understand how the "cli" command will work, for example. I will write about the result later - shaman888
    • No problem. The cli command in the virtual machine works fine, because all the hardware of the computer is normally and fully emulated. - gecube
    • and CapsLock and td at me will interestingly light up? While zapara with virtualka couple does not create a new machine. Nothing will get her hands :) - shaman888

    Do not tell - 4 GB of RAM. The 98th "Windows" works with a maximum of 512 MB of RAM and that's the problem. Put on the "virtual", allocate 256 MB of RAM and go ahead.

    to ArcherGodson - you explain it to me? I do not need your clarification. Read the topic, the answers and give answers to the topstarter, not me.

    • When they created the 98th "Windows" about such an amount of RAM, they never dreamed of :))) - ruff
    • XP also does not pull 4 gig, but it works - shaman888
    • "Pulls, does not pull" - I do not understand. The second time I say: "98th Windows" DOES NOT WORK with RAM over 512 MB. That's it, period. For the third time I will not repeat. If this is Thomas the unbeliever and prefer to learn from your own mistakes, put it on a computer with less than 512 RAM mb and you will see the result, but it's easier on the virtual. Yes, by the way, I don’t know why, but VirtualBox barely pulls my 98th, and M $ products are fine (virtualPC, VMware). Check. - ruff
    • Yes, XP works with a RAM of more than 3.25 gig, it just does not see it higher, but it will work fine, and the 98th one does not work, when installing a lot of errors. - ruff
    • I have XP x64, and she sees all 8 Gigov operatives, so XP sees the operative, more than 3.2g - ArcherGodson

    The big problem is with RAM ... It is much easier to put Windows ME. theoretically, Windows 98 supports 2GB of RAM, but for some reason, when loading it, it regards RAM and the paging file as one total in the end if it costs 1GB of RAM, then it sees it as 2. and does not load, read the article where the Beta-tester is at the RC testing stage win98 put Windows on a server with 1GB of RAM, then it stopped loading (the RAM server was 16MB each) as soon as it took out 1 bar everything started working normally. He reported on this problem to Microsoft, but they said in response that the release date was already close to this problem and they would not deal with who would put so much RAM on a PC.

    Ways to solve this problem: there are 3 of them!

    1st there is a patch that fixes this bug and allows you to work with 2GB + Patch_win98se_for_full_memory_access.Multi (rus)

    But the problem is that it is installed after you install Windows, as I did took the old computer PIII 1.4Ghz in which 3 * 512MB of RAM (left only 512MB) connected the HDD to put win98 there, the patch and connected to the already installed Intel Xenon 5450 computer With 4GB of DDR3 RAM, everything worked. Theoretically, you can do without such frauds if you get 1GB DDR3 (I met such people in nature, but I didn’t have it, as an option to order from the Chinese) to disconnect the video card and start it with an integrated memory, then the video memory will bite off the main memory will be less. But this is only my guess and guess!

    The 2nd option is to create a Live CD WIN98 (the tools for creating it are the images of the licensed disk in the TOOLS folder and the instruction in Russian on the Microsoft website and it is still there) from the boot disk I ran on any machine the method was TESTED 100% with one condition the presence of a fat32 partition on HDD (needed for storing temporary files and installing drivers for the LIVE OS itself) as an improvement option, write this image not to a CD but to a USB flash drive with a FAT32 boot partition using the UltraISO Program, but it will not work on all computers (all from the very contact Roller flash drive, USB Controller on MB and drivers) with USB 3.0 100% does not roll.

    The third option is to put the aforementioned Win ME up to 2 GB without problems, I installed it myself. as an option you can put Put the patch then 2GB +

    PS These patches do not allow the OS to work with large amounts of RAM and only IGNORE the presence of those. those. The OS will use and reserve less than you have installed, avoiding a critical aisle. and 2nd most optimal amount of RAM for Win98 3pcs 256 MB each))))

    • The question was asked three years ago !! - arg

    Here is an article about Windows 98 .

    True, there is more talk about how to install it at the average old age computers. And you have a new laptop. But maybe something will come in handy. There are links to resources of amateurs and enthusiasts 98 Vind, to all sorts of home-made updates, etc.