Good afternoon.
When I was a little boy, the greatest PC treasure I had was a Compaq Presario Windows 98 PC. It was a special premium, business model owned by my uncle. After I got off from elementary school, I would sit in my mother's classroom (she was a teacher) and play it until I got home.
The PC itself gave out years ago, but I saved the hard drive and mounted it as an external USB/IDE hard drive console. I made a full image of it using "Access Data Forensic Toolkit Imager" and then converted it to a "VM Ware" disk using "Winimage".
VM Ware reads the disk just fine, but it doesn't boot up. Most likely, this was due to an accident on my part. I converted the drive to NTFS. I realized my mistake and used a tool called "AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition" to convert it back to FAT32. I presume the conversion corrupted it, so I resigned to my fate.
I decided that I would instead run the included "Compaq Quick Restore" CD discs that came with the original computer. I installed them and had the virtual disk formatted. However, when I boot it up, it loads the Compaq Setup console and tells me that it cannot go any further. Why? It is because it knows that my emulation is not a Compaq Presario Model 5700T Windows 98 PC!
That's what I have come to ask. Is there any way to emulate a Compaq PC of that make and model, so that I can get this thing working again? The Windows 98 that I used was as special model with all sorts of incredible features that dazzled me as a small child. I'd like to see it load up that way once more. Is there any means to do this?
Thank you.
-TURTLESHROOM
P.S.: I already have a normal Windows 98 SE console running independently of this one.