

Bottom line, I need to make the compact flash card bootable so I can run the Windows 98 setup. I then removed the floppy and restarted the desktop, but the desktop was not able to boot from the compact flash to IDE adapter, so I assume the NEC won't either. I booted the desktop off a Windows 98 boot and ran SYS C.

The compact flash card is a 133x Transcend 8GB card. I connected the compact flash to IDE adapter internally to a desktop via my adapter. I need to make the compact flash card bootable, but I haven't been successful in doing this. But without a floppy drive or optical drive, I have no way of doing this. Now I need to run the Windows 98 setup program to install Windows 98 onto the disk. I copied the Windows 98SE setup files to the compact flash card via my modern PC and a USB card reader. So I want to replace it with a Compact flash card via a Compact Flash to IDE adapter and install Windows 98SE. The hard drive doesn't sound very healthy, it clicks a lot.

I did not come with the optical or floppy drive.
