From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2001 - 03:29:09 EST
> This may be unusual but here it goes. I have repartitioned my hd to
> install several other OS using Partition Magic and Boot Magic. The
> remains of the default Win98 partition is 2037 mb which CANNOT be
> increased (according to PowerQuest) and which is (according to IBM)
> too small to use the recover disk (must be 2045 mb).
>
> So as things stand when Win98 suffers fatal crash I have to use the
> recovery disk to wipe the entire 10 gb partition, losing my other OS
> in the process.
>
> Possible alternative: reinstall Win98 from CAB files.
>
> Is this possible, and if so how do (and where documented)?
Do you have a \Windows\Options\Cabs folder? That should be where your Win98
setup files are located. Save a copy of this folder somewhere--either burn
it on a CD or copy it to one of your other partitions.
Then to do a totally clean reinstall of Win98, format your Win98 partition,
copy that folder back onto it (it doesn't have to be in
\Windows\Options\Cabs, although that's a fine place to put it), make the
Win98 partition the active partition, boot from a Win98 floppy, and run
Setup.exe in that folder.
-Mike
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