Recover Windows 98se boot

To recover Windows 98 boot, you may have saved boot sector in a bootsect.w98 file with the tool saveboot.bat (like explained in MULTIBOOT page).

If you don't have a saving of the boot sector, Jean-Claude Bellamy proposes some for Dos 6.22, Windows 95 and Windows NT4.

I've also gathered utilities saveboot, restboot with debug and my bootsect.620 .w95 and .w98 in bootsect.zip for download.

Recovery process :

copy saveboot.bat , restboot.bat and bootsect.w98 in root C:\ (and debug.exe if needed)
save present boot sector C:\ saveboot bootsect.now
restore Windows 98 boot sector C:\ restboot bootsect.w98
transfer boot sector to Windows 98 partition C:\ sys c: e: in my case (a message impossible to copy COMMAND.COM is displayed, we don't care)
restore boot sector as before the recovery process C:\ restboot bootsect.now

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Version of the document: 1.0EN
Created: February 5 - 2001
Updated: February 7 - 2001
Author: Leon