Can I have win98 on an external HD?

[Jassi]

I would like to have Win 98 installed on an external HD and boot from it whenever I need to use it on a computer. I have a MB that supports booting from USB but so far I have been unable to boot from it. Is it possible? Is there a guide I can follow?

 

[stevty2889]

I'm wonding the same thing, I have win98 installed on a partition on an external hard drive as well, but it won't boot, it always crashes before getting in to windows.

 

[NuroMancer]

My first thought was no,
By as I sat here at work thinking about it.
step 1: Install windows 98 to a regular hd, on its own partition
step 2: Verify windows 98 has the correct drivers for reading a usb mass storage device
step 3: Ghost it to the External HDD
Thank not me but my friend Alain for the advice we bouced it back and forth and it was his brain child.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Most modern mobos WILL boot from a USB drive. No need to do anything fancy, just enable legacy USB support in BIOS. Boot with a Win98 CD with the USB drive connected (and any internal drives disabled or disconnected) and you should be able to install Win98 to the USB drive.

 

[Zepper]

USB support was pretty flaky in Windwoes until Win98SE and Win2k and that would probably only be usable on one system to avoid driver changes, etc.. I think it may be easier to make a Win98SE bootable CD (like a Live Linux CD). There are some step-by-step instructions for building one around the web. There should be a post here with links to the instructions, but it would be in archived messages and I'm not sure which section I posted it to but I think it was the OS section.

.bh.

 

[Zepper]

USB support was pretty flaky in Windwoes until Win98SE and Win2k and that would probably only be usable on one system to avoid driver changes, etc.. I think it may be easier to make a Win98SE bootable CD (like a Live Linux CD). There are some step-by-step instructions for building one around the web. There should be a post here with links to the instructions, but it would be in archived messages and I'm not sure which section I posted it to but I think it was the OS section. But here is a link though I'm not sure if this is the article I linked to before: http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/11/206/

.bh.