Reply 20 of 26, by DEAT
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I have a deliberately portable Windows 98 setup on an 8GB SATA SSD via an IDE-> SATA adapter that is split into two partitions: the first partition being 2GB and the second taking the rest. I keep a copy of the Win98 install CD on the second partition along with necessary drivers like PCI IDE controllers and mobo chipset drivers. The major caveat to this setup is that you need to use the onboard IDE for the OS drive and you can't use PCI IDE controllers - I don't have SCSI devices to know whether this works for SCSI. Transferring between different motherboards is usually trivial and only requires needing to reinitialise all of the system drivers - the important thing is having a PS/2 keyboard and/or a serial mouse available, as trying to use USB input devices will eventually break and will require a forced reboot.
You still need a CD drive initialised if you plan to reinstall Windows 98 with using a copy stored on a hard drive, otherwise ISO mounting software like Daemon Tools will never have a drive letter assigned and plugging in a CD drive later will also never have a drive letter.