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Originally posted by Albromor:
Well the problem then is that I don't have the WIN98 disk. Looks like I'll have to spend money I was hoping I didn't have to spend. I had a certified Windows technician put this rig together for me and he is long gone. I appreciate the clarifications and advice.
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You could get one of your friends or someone who is running on Win98 to create a bootdisk. Remember to ask him/her to copy format.exe and fdisk.exe to the bootdisk because you need at least one of them. format.exe is to format the hard drive, of course while fdisk.exe is used to delete the whole partition. Some people (like me) prefers to have an extra partition for NTFS while leaving the others on FAT32.
Be very careful when switching from Win98 to XP. Some of your old programs and drivers would need to be updated, it would be a huge pain to download all those stuff if you don't have broadband connections.
Mind you that some old games just refuse to run on XP, no matter what method you tried (compatibility mode, DOSBox and etc). If you still want to play older DOS and Windows games, you might probably want to seriously consider install XP as an alternate boot, a.k.a dual boot. The only drawback of dual booting is that it costs you more space, other than that, you old 98 and XP should be able to co-exist relatively peacefully, like what I am running on my PC.
[ 07-27-2004, 11:09 PM: Message edited by: Paladin2000 ]