How can I format a CD to be readable in Win 98?

[BristolBrick]

I am having trouble transferring data to a Win 98 PC, the only way I can is to use CDs. How can I format a CD so win 98 can read it?

[BubblyCharizard]

you can eject the disc and close the disc then it should be readable

[BristolBrick]

Just now, BubblyCharizard said:

you can eject the disc and close the disc then it should be readable

What does that mean?

[Ace McPlane]

I use a lot of virtual machines including using windows 98 and I've never had a problem with CD's burnt on a modern computer so I'm not quite sure what's going on here. Perhaps the CD drive in the win98 pc is on the fritz? Try a CD that you know works with it to see if that's the issue. 

[Ace McPlane]

On 7/17/2017 at 11:29 PM, BristolBrick said:

I am having trouble transferring data to a Win 98 PC, the only way I can is to use CDs. How can I format a CD so win 98 can read it?

getting flashbacks to the windows 98 days  got another suggestion.

Try the ISO 9660 file system 

I'm really jogging my memory here but I think there's mode 1 and mode 2 or something with that.

Try both and use something like magiciso that's more geared toward giving you options for compatibility.

[Ace McPlane]

If you're actually not having the CD drive show up at all in windows..

 whenever I build a virtual machine, I manually install MSCDEX in dos to fix that instead of CDFS which I think you can get working afterwards, I write a line of code into a bat file which I have written down somewhere in a file so I can do it again if I need to, and put in an old but universal oakcdrom.sys driver in there.

Build CD support into it manually if the drive won't show up for some reason with that good old oakcdrom.sys file that seems to work with everything.

If that's your problem, let me know and I'll dig all that info up if I can find it.