The Ebd.cab file is a compressed file whose contents are extracted to the Ramdrive during the startup process. The purpose of EBD.CAB is to make a Windows 98 boot disk (on a floppy). Contents of the Ebd.cab File ATTRIB EXE 15,252 05-06-98 8:01p CHKDSK EXE 28,096 05-06-98 8:01p DEBUG EXE 20,554 05-06-98 8:01p EDIT COM 69,902 05-06-98 8:01p EXT EXE 13,299 05-06-98 8:01p FORMAT COM 49,575 05-06-98 8:01p HELP BAT 36 05-06-98 8:01p MSCDEX EXE 25,473 05-06-98 8:01p RESTART COM 20 05-06-98 8:01p SCANDISK EXE 143,818 05-06-98 8:01p SCANDISK INI 7,329 05-06-98 8:01p SYS COM 18,967 05-06-98 8:01p
The purpose of EBD.CAB is to make a Windows 98 boot disk on a floppy.
The purpose is to help start up your computer and the installtion
If your Windows operating system gets corrupted, you can start the computer using the boot disk and repair the damage.
Burnt the i386 folder from your harddrive onto a disk and that's it.
Start - My Computer - Local Disk C and explorer opens with content of local disk C
You will need the start up disk that comes with Windows program. It will be the disk with a code on the back of the packaging. Place the disc in the drive and then re-boot your device.
An emergency start-up disk
click start, programs, and MS-Dos prompt when you boot from a bootable disk or a windows 9x Me startup disk, you get a command prompt instead of the windows desktop
How do i prepare a new hard disk drive for installation of a windows 98 system
To install Windows 95 from MS-DOS, run an F disk before formatting the hard disk. Then add a switch /S so that the partition will be bootable.
A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run an operating system or utility program. A boot disk (sometimes called a startup disk) is a type of removable media, such as a floppy disk or a CD, that contains startup files that your computer can use to start Windows. The startup files are also stored on your computer's hard disk, but if those startup files become damaged, you can use the files on a boot disk to start Windows. In earlier operating systems that used the FAT or FAT32 file systems, such as Windows 95 and Windows 98, a boot disk was especially useful because it allowed a person to access files on a hard disk even if Windows was unable to start. This ability also represented a security risk, because anyone with a boot disk and access to the computer could start the computer and access any file. Hard disks formatted with NTFS have built-in security features that prevent using a boot disk to access files. The Windows installation disc contains the files necessary to start Windows, so it is itself a boot disk. If a problem is preventing Windows from starting, you can use the installation CD to start Windows. The installation CD also contains Startup Repair, which you can use to repair Windows if a problem prevents it from starting correctly. Startup Repair can automatically fix many of the problems that in the past required a boot disk to fix
You can use the same method used in previous versions of Windows: Open the Windows Explorer (press Windows-E). Right-click on a disk or partition, and select "Properties", to check the free space.
Open "My Computer" on the Desktop, right click on the disk you want to format under "Hard Disk Drives" and then click on "Format". Select the required options and then click on "Start"...