George Sanders37
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joined Aug 2013
One option would be to create a disk image using software like:
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/disk-manager/
These kinds of programs work by making an exact copy of the drive and saving it as a file—an image, basically. You can save that image file wherever you want—maybe on a thumb drive if you feel like it—and then load it back later, though you usually need the same utility that created the image to restore it.
The biggest headache here is that we're talking about Windows 98, so finding software that actually runs under that operating system might be tricky. Or, maybe you could just pop the Windows 98 drive into a different machine and handle everything from there.
As a workaround, I’d suggest something else entirely: just grab a second Hard Drive. You could keep Windows 98 on the first Hard Drive, fully installed and configured exactly how you need it with the original setup. Then, on the second Hard Drive, you can do whatever you want. That way, you just plug in Hard Drive 1 or Hard Drive 2 whenever you need them.
Reinstalling Windows 98 isn't exactly rocket science, but it's a massive waste of time and energy—especially when you have to hunt down drivers that are Windows 98 only.
Still, I guess I should ask—why do you even need to reinstall Windows 98? Is it just because of a legal license thing, or is there some other reason? What kind of hardware setup are we looking at here? And what OS would you be running on top of Windows 98?
