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The final hurdle was the sound. When the desktop finally materialized in its glorious Teal (#008080)

– Your BIOS doesn’t like the geometry. Remake the USB with "USB-ZIP" mode in Rufus (available under "Advanced drive properties").

Before you can make the USB, you need the disk image.

Edit W:\AUTOEXEC.BAT :

Creating a is equal parts computing history lesson and hardware puzzle. While modern Windows automatically mounts ISOs and boots from USB without thought, Windows 98 forces you to confront the limitations of 1998: 64MB RAM limits, the 2GB FAT32 partition wall, and the sheer magic of HIMEM.SYS .