Booting W98 from floppy or CD with long filename support

I need to backup a HDD to CD so that I can reformat it, and then put the
files back. After the reformat I could boot from floppy and copy the
files back to the HD, but that would corrupt the installation due to the
lack of long filename support.

Anyone know of a way to boot with long filename support?


Headless

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I need to backup a HDD to CD so that I can reformat
it, and then put the files back. After the reformat I
could boot from floppy and copy the files back to the HD,

You could, but that wont necessarily make it bootable.

but that would corrupt the installation
due to the lack of long filename support.

Anyone know of a way to boot with long filename support?

Any real backup or imaging app has long file name support.

Headless wrote in
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I need to backup a HDD to CD so that I can reformat it, and then
put the files back. After the reformat I could boot from floppy
and copy the files back to the HD, but that would corrupt the
installation due to the lack of long filename support.

Anyone know of a way to boot with long filename support?

Use PE Builder from http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ and create a product
very close to Windows PE. Windows PE allows you to boot a minimal
Windows XP subsystem from a CD-R. You'll need a copy of Windows XP SP1
slipstreamed to make this. Works on NTFS and FAT16/32 filesystems.

DOSLFN at http://stealth.kirenet.com/~aleinss/files/doslfn.zip is a TSR
that will give you long name support. This will only work on FAT16/32
file systems.

Adam