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1. #How to transfer files onto a windows 98 emulator install#
2. #How to transfer files onto a windows 98 emulator drivers#
3. #How to transfer files onto a windows 98 emulator Pc#

Then, if I ejected it from the Win 98 box (left click on green USB eject arrow on bottom right of Win 98 screen and eject the relevant drive), and then deselected it from the VirtualBox ‘Devices’ menu, I could mount it on my Linux desktop and see the files I had copied out of the Win 98 VM. When I rebooted lots of ‘ghost’ drives seemed to appear in Windows Explorer, but when I put a USB stick into the host and made sure it was activated in the ‘Devices’ -> ‘USB Devices’ menu on the top of the VM window, I could indeed see the USB stick inside the VM. Also, on rebooting I did not let Windows try to install/find any new devices I just cancelled any dialogues it popped up.

#How to transfer files onto a windows 98 emulator install#

If using First Edition, the USB driver install is a little different). How about allowing the VM to access a USB stick? I started by finding ‘nusb36e.exe’ or similar on some trustworthy website, and installed it on the Win98 guest (ah, but how did I get the file into it? Well, I could have browsed the web from inside the VM, but I just used the genisoimage trick noted above), noting the instructions about removing previously defined USB devices (and other unidentified devices) first, by opening Device Manager in Win98 (note I am using Win98 SE. However, it is no good for getting stuff out again, since the iso is read-only. Hence, I can just put the files I want to get into Win 98 in a directory and use genisoimage to make an iso file of the directory then put the iso in VirtualBox’s virtual CD drive using the ‘Devices’ menu (usually at the top of the VM).

Where the directory cd_dir will become the root directory To create a vanilla ISO9660 filesystem image in the file cd.iso, At a command prompt on a Linux host, typing man genisoimage Have Windows Explorer running and select the files to download from your music file source directory.

#How to transfer files onto a windows 98 emulator Pc#

Hook up the player to the PC via the USB connector. One of the simplest is to use genisoimage. Music files may be transferred to the KEY Ring Audio player simply via Windows Explorer: Make sure that the mode selector switch is in the DOWNLOAD/PLAYBACK position.

#How to transfer files onto a windows 98 emulator drivers#

But there are various tricks to try. Using network connectivity is one way. The scenario for me: a new Windows 98SE installation on a Toshiba Libretto 60 subnotebook is in need of some drivers and software that would be extremely inconvenient to transfer via floppy disk, and the machine has very limited I/O options that can be matched by my ThinkPad W520. NOTE When using the adb.exe utility to pull or push files from or into the emulator, ensure that only one AVD is running.

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