I had a Windows 98 SE full version CD, and now It has a big scratch on it and is utterly useless. I keep it so I can do a clean install of windows if/when my system dies on me.

I still have the restore CDs that came w/ my comp, but I prefer a 100% virgin windows install instead of installing windows along with all of the crap thats also on the backup Cd.

If someone has a win98 SE full version Cd that they no longer need/want, I would be willing to buy it from you or copy it and send it back. (If I copied it, it would be 100% legal b/c I already bought a win98 disc once and the copy is to replace the one that was damaged.)



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Most people regard me as the dark and immoral side of Massassi. At least I'm getting what I want out of life.

Find a good CD-RW drive and see if it can read it fine. (If you haven't done that already.)

CD-RW drives are much better at reading discs and can generally read some fairly damaged discs.

If that actually manages to work, make a copy.

This one has a deep gouge in it that you can feel with your fingernail. My mom's cat must have been playing with it and ended up clawing the hell out of it.

I'll gladly swap the cat for a disc...

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Most people regard me as the dark and immoral side of Massassi. At least I'm getting what I want out of life.

[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited December 31, 2003).]

You'd be surprised at how mangled stuff can be and still be read.

Go to store -> Buy CD resurfacer kit -> Use on stratched CD

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

You can always download it.

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Massassian since: March 12, 2001

[=-"The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does;
Even if you murdered or robbed, years wrong, but God loves;
Take one step toward him, he takes two toward you;
Even when all else fail, God supports you." - Nas-=]

If your gonna download an OS, you might as well download a real one...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

as opposed to a fake one?

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saberopus
oh yeh wlel i jsut gots finesht wiht my morrwoind mod for teh JO An it takes up teh 900 gigabiets of spaec but i wlil not sowh yuo gyz teh scrnshoots becasue we dunat kare wut u gyz tihnk ne1 no wear i kan get ti hostad 4 dounlowd!!!!11!111 --Checksum

Looks like I have no choice.

79%.



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Most people regard me as the dark and immoral side of Massassi. At least I'm getting what I want out of life.

If your gonna be a troll, you might as well be a real one...


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Hahaha, clownsuit.

Precisely.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Or maybe you could let the man use win98 without bothering him about Linux? Could work.

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Oh, you can't ask any question on this board about windows or any microsoft product without someone harassing you about Linux or something.


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Terry Hinch's Web Comic
All opinions expressed by Hinch are the explicit views of Hinch, and only Hinch and his 7 other personalities. In the event that said personalities are in dispute, the majority shall prevail. All opinions are held in perpetuity of the present, past, and future throughout this universe, mirror universes, and all multi-verses, including alternate time lines.

but you realize, using win98 will just lead him farther and farther away from the pure and sole truth that is LINUX?



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saberopus
oh yeh wlel i jsut gots finesht wiht my morrwoind mod for teh JO An it takes up teh 900 gigabiets of spaec but i wlil not sowh yuo gyz teh scrnshoots becasue we dunat kare wut u gyz tihnk ne1 no wear i kan get ti hostad 4 dounlowd!!!!11!111 --Checksum

I wouln't mind using linux, but I have no problems with windows and I can't be bothered to learn how to use linux properly. But I really don't think we need to talk about it in every single thread about OS's.

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[This message has been edited by TheJkWhoSaysNi (edited January 01, 2004).]

Yes, harassment.


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BV's rendition of Titanic: Let's have sex. I won't let go. I don't need this stone.
The End.
~ Wolfy

I still have my 98 SE disk. Weve had to use it before to so we could reinstall the whole thing. Bad luck for you.

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Here Ociffer, hold my beer while i look for my license.
*Remnant Temple beta taking a bit longer than planned but ill get it done*
Light And Darkness

I have a cd again, but I had to take the various windows cab files acquired from [classified FTP source] and reassemble them and then burn it as a bootable data cd.

I can boot with the cd, but I don't want to actually test the install unless I really need to. (You can understand why--recreating a win98 Cd is extremely complicated and there is a huge possibility for error.) I'll save the backup for when windows gets so screwed up that I have nothing to lose by running it.


This is all legal b/c like I said before, I'm creating this Cd for backup purposes and to replace the damaged one.

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Most people regard me as the dark and immoral side of Massassi. At least I'm getting what I want out of life.

If you're going to go to that trouble, why not simply download the whole CD from somewhere and burn it?

It's the same thing... It should be a lot easier too.

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reliable ISOs are hard to find.. unless you can give me a link...

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Most people regard me as the dark and immoral side of Massassi. At least I'm getting what I want out of life.

[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited January 01, 2004).]

If my burner was working (I cant get good ISO's off my regular drive), I would offer to set up a temoporary FTP for you to download an ISO, but right now I cant...

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"Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either
condition."... G. K. Chesterton

no need. I just learned that If you just burn the files in C:/windows/options/cabs to a bootable CD (You can make a cd bootable in nero) you basically have the same thing as a full version windows disc. (FYI, a bootable cd is like having a boot disk burned onto your windows 98 install cd rom-- with it, I don't need to rely on easily damaged [and lost!] floppy boot disks anymore. )

Just boot into dos, run fdisk to kill and remake your partitions, then run format.com to format your drive to msdos, and then extract the contents of the Cd to your hD, then run setup.exe off of your HD, and then windows starts installing and you're done.

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Most people regard me as the dark and immoral side of Massassi. At least I'm getting what I want out of life.

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