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Hello everyone! I have a problem.
I downloaded a Windows 98SE Boot disk image from http://www.allbootdisks.com and tried to use it to boot my Windows 98 SE CD-ROM and it would not boot. Help me, I'm stuck and the only other way I can think of to get Win98SE in a virtual machine is to buy a USB floppy drive and hope the diskette still works. Someone, help me!

Is the CD itself not bootable? Many Win98SE setup CDs were. OTOH Many non-bootable Win98SE CDs were not setup CDs, they were recovery CDs - useless for a VM, so watch out.

If you really have a non-bootable setup CD then you might be able to boot from a (free)DOS floppy, including CD driver, and run the setup program manually. You need a plain old 1.44MB floppy image. Beware all (compressed) imitatations.